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The way patrons use library buildings is also changing. Libraries offered 3.75 million public programs in 2010, the equivalent of one free program per day in every public library in America. [5] Mirroring an increase in overall library usage, attendance at library programs increased by 22 percent between 2004 and 2008. [67]
Basic library statistics (not rankings) were initially maintained by the National Center for Educational Statistics; that body continues to collect data for academic libraries, but administration of the Public Libraries Survey and the State Library Agencies Survey was transferred to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) in October 2007. [1]
References: Oregon Public Library Statistics, 2021–2022 [1] The Salem Public Library is a public library system serving Salem, Oregon , United States. The system includes two branches and is a member of the Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service , which serves the Salem metropolitan area .
The Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the largest library in the United States and second-largest library in the world with over 167 million holdings, including 39 million books and other printed recordings, 14.8 million photographs, 5.5 million maps, 8.1 million pieces of sheet music, and 72 million manuscripts
It was ranked the number one public library in the United States among libraries serving populations of more than 500,000 by the Hennen's American Public Library Ratings 2010. [4] In 2022, more than 10 million items were borrowed by its 737,702 cardholders, and 2.99 million visits were made to branches. [5]
The culmination of centuries of advances in the printing press, moveable type, paper, ink, publishing, and distribution, combined with an ever-growing information-oriented middle class, increased commercial activity and consumption, new radical ideas, massive population growth and higher literacy rates forged the public library into the form that it is today.
Yale Library United States: New Haven, Connecticut, one location for students, staff and no free borrowing access to the public 15.2 million [42] National Library of Iran Iran: Tehran: 15.0 million [43] Hong Kong Public Library Hong Kong: Hong Kong: 11.36 million [44] HK$776.2 million [45]
The New York Public Library: The Architecture and Decoration of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Company. ISBN 978-0-393-07810-7. Sherman, Scott (2015). Patience and fortitude : power, real estate, and the fight to save a public library, Brooklyn; London : Melville House, ISBN 978-1-61219-429-5