Statistics of Public Library Systems Serving Populations of 35,000 to 49,999

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U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education, 1960 - Public libraries

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Page 3 - Achieving standard library facilities presents special difficulties in small cities, scattered suburbs, towns, villages, and rural areas. Even with substantial financial effort, the small locality is often not able to raise enough money to buy the books needed and to employ the requisite professional personnel. For these reasons the many smaller libraries in the country have usually not approached the range and quality of service specified...
Page 20 - Health, Education, and Welfare Trends, 1961 Edition. Washington, US Government Printing Office.
Page 20 - I960 250 200 150 100 1965 1970 1975 1980 Source: US Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census; Current Population Reports. Population Estimates. Series P-25. I/ includes Alaska beginning with 1959 (total population only in that year) and Hawaii with 1960. 2/ Armed Forces overseas are excluded for the years 1900-1935 but are included thereafter. 3/ Census of April 1, 1960. 4/ Series P-25, No. 279, "Projections of the Population of the United States by Age and Sex to 1985...
Page 20 - Im-v: level continues to 1980; (III) 1955-57 level declines to 1949-51 level by...
Page 2 - The median value is that point above and below which 50 percent of the cases occur.

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