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LISU Public Library Materials Fund and Budget Survey
The 2002 edition of the LISU Public Library Materials Fund and Budget Survey has recently been published

*****WITH APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING*****

Public Library Materials Fund and Budget Survey 2001-2003
(ISBN 1 901786 58 7)   

LISU's regular Public Library Materials Fund and Budget Survey describes in detail how our Public Library Services are faring and their plans for the future. Based upon an extensive questionnaire survey of UK Libraries, it is a compilation of recent spending results, together with budgets for 2002-2003.
Library managers, the book trade, academics and others all need reliable and up-to-date statistics. The results are available just four months after data gathering began and they represent figures from an overall response rate of 89% to the survey.
Details of expenditure and forecast budgets are included under several headings:
* Total library expenditure
* Total materials expenditure
* Expenditure on books
* Expenditure on audio-visual materials
* Total staff
* Professional staff
* Service points
* Hours open

Information on these themes is presented in three main sections:
1. A commentary, which includes summary tables by 'type of authority', for each theme, and which calculates overall percentage changes per sector from year to year.
2. Summary tables by theme, each table listing every authority under its sector.

3.Authority tables, including all the information submitted by each authority.
Themes are summarised by 'type of authority', namely: London boroughs,metropolitan districts, English unitary authorities, English counties, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Data are presented for the 2000/01 actual expenditure, the 2001/02 original estimate, the 2001/02 actual, and the 2002/03 estimate.

The Public Library Materials Fund and Budget Survey is an important source which takes the pulse at several important pressure points of the entire UK public library system. This volume of extensive and detailed data is a useful management, marketing and study aid.

Priced £30 (incl UK postage). Available from LISU, Loughborough
University, Loughborough, Leics, LE11 3TU. T 01509 223071  F 01509
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Dr Sally Maynard
Research Associate        
LISU                        
Loughborough University     
Loughborough
Leicestershire   LE11 3TU

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