UNDER THE SURFACE

摘要

Last year, public library materials budgets barely budged, growing by 0.7 percent on average and moving up significantly only at libraries serving populations of 500,000-plus. Print book budgets saw no growth at all for the third year in a row. Circulation, too, was static, growing only 0.6 percent overall and passing one percent only at libraries serving populations of 10,000-24,999. But beneath this flat surface, materials budgets and circulation showed a surprising amount of movement.