Public Library Annual Survey

OLIS aims to use Section 11 to explore special issues in more depth than the rest of the survey allows. The issues will rotate each year, allowing OLIS to develop longitudinal datasets on a variety of issues.

• 2023: Employment Frameworks
• 2024: Boards, Foundations, and Capital Needs

Topics covered in Section 11: Boards, Foundations, and Capital Needs include:

• Board of Trustees characteristics
  • establishment
  • size
  • terms
  • building boards
• Foundation and Friends
  • 501c3 status
  • FY24 expenditures from Foundation and/or Friends (direct and on behalf)
• Capital Needs
  • major needs
  • climate adaptation needs
  • future renovation or construction plans