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                                             |                       Population of legal service area
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                    Item                     |            |         |  10,000   | 50,000  | 100,000 | 250,000 |  500,000
                                             |   Total    |  Under  |    to     |   to    |   to    |   to    |    and
                                             |            | 10,000  |  49,999   | 99,999  | 249,999 | 499,999 |   over
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  Number of public library service outlets ..|     16,936 |   5,764 |     4,145 |   1,854 |   2,014 |   1,140 |     2,019
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Central libraries ...........................|      8,835 |   5,413 |     2,492 |     496 |     296 |      77 |        61
Branch libraries ............................|      7,035 |     266 |     1,290 |   1,135 |   1,524 |     981 |     1,839
Bookmobiles .................................|      1,066 |      85 |       363 |     223 |     194 |      82 |       119
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          Collections, in thousands          |            |         |           |         |         |         |
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Books and serial volumes\1\..................|    642,525 |  89,056 |   158,315 |  80,170 |  89,846 |  70,799 |   154,340
Audio and video materials and films .........|     29,951 |   2,753 |     6,939 |   3,748 |   5,149 |   2,754 |     8,608
Serial subscriptions ........................|      1,684 |     255 |       443 |     214 |     233 |     182 |       359
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    Paid staff, in full-time equivalents     |            |         |           |         |         |         |
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Librarians ..................................|     35,999 |   5,331 |     9,318 |   4,483 |   4,822 |   3,700 |     8,344
  Librarians with ALA-MLS\2\ ................|     24,461 |     964 |     5,499 |   3,284 |   3,786 |   3,156 |     7,772
Other staff .................................|     73,927 |   4,693 |    17,510 |  10,268 |  12,049 |   9,011 |    20,397
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           Finances, in thousands            |            |         |           |         |         |         |
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Total operating income ......................| $4,997,339 |$323,285 |$1,087,681 |$632,970 |$735,283 |$605,053 |$1,613,065
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    Source of income                         |                Percentage distribution
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    Total .................................. |      100.0 |   100.0 |     100.0 |   100.0 |   100.0 |   100.0 |     100.0
  Federal ...................................|        1.0 |     1.6 |       0.8 |     1.0 |     1.1 |     1.0 |       1.1
  State .....................................|       12.0 |     9.3 |      10.9 |    12.6 |     9.9 |    11.7 |      14.0
  Local ..................................   |       78.6 |    72.9 |      79.1 |    78.8 |    81.9 |    81.5 |      76.9
  Other .....................................|        8.4 |    16.2 |       9.1 |     7.6 |     7.0 |     5.8 |       8.1
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SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Public Libraries in the United States: 1992. (This table was prepared June 1994.)