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

The article focuses on report of the U.S. Federal Agency and Federal Library on the National Center for Education Statistics Library Statistics Program, which surveys on the academic and public libraries in the U.S. Topics discussed include statistics of academic libraries from 1988 to 1998, survey of elementary and secondary schools and evaluation of public school district finance information. It also mentions the collection of statistic through web based data collection system.