The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in 1999 released the data file for Public Libraries Survey, Fiscal Year 1996. Conducted annually by the NCES through the Federal-State Cooperative System (FSCS) for Public Library Data, the Public Libraries Survey (PLS) collects data on staff, materials, circulation, reference transactions, library visits, public service hours, operating income...

Posted by the American Library Association, Great American Public Libraries: HALPR Ratings 2000 is the latest edition of the HAPLR index, which uses measures calculated from the Federal-State Cooperative System (FSCS) to determine rankings of the 50 best American libraries in 10 different population size categories. The report also gives the average ranking for each of the 50 states with many of...