Librarians have always turned to the American Library Association (ALA) for statistical data on library use. This year, to reach a wider audience, the ALA has published "The State of America's Libraries" as a special e-issue of the Association's journal, "American Libraries" (also available as a downloadable pdf). The 80-page report present a sometimes bleak, but overall inspiring, picture of...

The American Library Association has published its annual State of America's Libraries Report for 2013, which is available in full online. A supplement of the association's American Libraries magazine, this special report takes a look at where libraries stand, how people are currently using the spaces and services provided, and how libraries are adapting to larger cultural changes such as the...

Released in April 2007, The State of America's Libraries report from the American Library Association offers users a wealth of information about current trends over the past year. Within the 19-page report visitors will learn that investment in e-books at academic and research libraries rose 68 percent from 2002 to 2004 and that school library media centers were hard hit by funding cuts in 2006....