The Library Research Center has created an interactive online database for the library information collected annually by the Federal-State Cooperative System, a division of the National Center for Education Statistics.

Library rankings and trends for the past five years are available at the national, regional, and state level. Library fact sheets and trends are available for all FSCS reporting libraries. State fact sheets are also available.

Users can also access all FSCS library data from the past five years via the interactive database, where they can run their own calculations, filter and group data based on their own criteria, and create charts and cross-tabs. Users can also save their progress and continue where they left off at another time.

All data is exportable into Excel file formats. The data tool works best with Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, or Apple Safari.

This work was supported in part by a generous gift from H. W. Wilson Foundation.

If you would like to provide feedback on your use of the FSCS Library Data Tool, please contact the Library Research Center at surveys@lrcmail.lis.uiuc.edu.

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