Idaho Commission for Libraries

Responses to the 2009-2010 Public Library Funding & Technology Access survey at www.plinternetsurvey.org increased significantly in the last week. A big thank you to those who have completed it!

An Excel file of the preliminary FY08 Public Library Statistics is available now. This file is in alphabetical order. Please note that population figures are still from FY2007.

Can you say, "Stacks Stats" ten times fast?

Stacks is the new name for the Idaho Digital Repository! Think of the stacks and stacks of information, all easily findable with a quick search. We harvest the digital content on all of the state's web sites and make them findable, too.

The online Annual Report Form for FY08 is now ready and available. This year we have a new form. You will find it here: http://collect.btol.com Usernames and passwords are the same as last year, but if you do not know, or have forgotten them, please call us and we will get that information to you. If we are not in the office you can leave a message on our answering machine and we will return your call.

Some of the improvements with this new version of Collect are that you can now access your previous reports back to FY2000, the program does not take over your computer screen, you can easily move back and forth between pages and the totals on each page show up as you enter them. No more having to click the UPDATE button. Also, you now can use Internet Explorer or Firefox to access your form.

SCHOOL LIBRARY/MEDIA CENTERS PILOT STUDY -- DRAFT TABLES

Public Library Statistics FY 2008. U.S. Census population estimates released in July have been incorporated into the attached files.

The Idaho Commission for Libraries (ICFL) is located in the Executive Branch of state government and is governed by the Board of Library Commissioners, which is appointed by the governor.