LibrariansChoice.com Celebrates National Libray Week April 10-14, 2005

"There's Something for Everyone at the Library."

(PRWEB) April 11, 2005 -- Libraries bring you the world. Did you know there are more than 117,000 libraries in the United States? In addition to public libraries in almost every community, there are thousands of libraries in schools, colleges and universities, hospitals, law firms, businesses, the armed forces and more!

Because libraries offer free access to all, they bring opportunity to all. And the greatest resources in each of these libraries are the librarians and library workers. Almost 400,000 people make libraries work for you every day. Youll find the right answer @ your library!

On this page, you will find a variety of resources created by librarians and ALA staff to educate, inform and entertain children, teens, adults and families.

Number of Libraries in the United States ALA Library Fact Sheet 1:

There are an estimated 117,859 libraries of all kinds in the United States today. No annual survey provides statistics on all types of libraries.

Public, academic, and school library counts below come from three different surveys by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES): Public Libraries in the United States: Fiscal Year 2001 (2003); Academic Libraries: 2000 (2003); and Schools and Staffing Survey, 1999-2000: Overview of the Data for Public, Private, Public Charter, and Bureau of Indian Affairs Elementary and Secondary Schools (2002), respectively.

Figures for special libraries, armed forces libraries, and government libraries come from the American Library DirectoryTM 2004-2005, which is a two-volume set currently published by Information Today, Inc. Find out more about this publication at the Information Today, Inc. web site, at:

http://books.infotoday.com/directories/amerlib57.shtml

(Information Today, Inc., Attn: Customer Service, 143 Old Marlton Pike, Medford NJ 08055-8750; telephone: 1-609-654-6266; fax: 1-609-654-4309; e-mail: custserv@infotoday.com; web site: http://www.infotoday.com).

Public libraries (administrative units)

9,129

Centrals *

8,971

Branches

7,450

Buildings

16,421

Academic Libraries

3,527

Less than four year

1,379

Four year and above

2,148

School Libraries

93,861

Public schools

76,807

Private schools

17,054

Special Libraries * * 9,781

Armed Forces Libraries 312

Government Libraries 1,249

Total 117,859

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