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Public Library Annual Survey

Changes in FY2024

Removed

  • Local Electronic Material Circulation
  • Local Electronic Collection Usage, Other Cooperative Agreement Electronic Collection Usage, State Electronic Collection Usage, and Total Retrieval of Electronic Information

Added

  • E-book Circulation: Local, E-book Circulation: Total
  • E-serial Circulation: Local, E-serial Circulation: OverDrive & Palace, E-serial Circulation: Total
  • E-audio Circulation: Local, E-audio Circulation: Total
  • E-video Circulation: Local, E-video Circulation: Total

FAQs

Q: How do we report in-house circulations?

A: If materials are not checked out on a card, it doesn’t count as circulation (per federal definition) for the purposes of this report. Count for local use only.

Electronic Materials Circulations

Circulations of locally purchased Advantage and Advantage Plus titles are included in the prefilled circulation figures from OverDrive and Palace platforms:

  • #7.6 E-book Circulation: OverDrive & Palace
  • #7.12 E-audio Circulation: OverDrive & Palace

Circulation of electronic materials available for local patrons only should be reported by format in the relevant lines:

  • #7.5 E-book Circulation: Local
  • #7.8 E-serial Circulation: Local
  • #7.11 E-audio Circulation: Local
  • #7.14 E-video Circulation: Local

What circulation should be included here? Possible examples below:

  • CloudLibrary
  • Hoopla
  • Kanopy
  • Purchases for circulating e-readers
  • Tumblebooks
  • Comics Plus
  • Flipster (for title purchased in addition to AskRI titles)