Part 1 Reports from the Field: Federal Agency and Federal Library Reports: National Center for Education Statistics Library Statistics Program.

This section of the "Library and Book Trade Almanac," 54th edition focuses on the formal library statistics program initiated by the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) that included surveys on academic libraries, school library media centers, public libraries and state libraries in 1989. The Academic Libraries Survey conducted by the NCES provides descriptive statistics from more than 3,000 libraries in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the outlying areas of the U.S.