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Order Your 2011 PLDS Report or Subscription
The Public Library Association’s (PLA) 2011 Public Library Data Service (PLDS) Statistical Report is now available for advance purchase and will begin shipping in July. The report presents timely and topical data to assist public library administrators in making informed management decisions. Published annually since 1988, the PLDS Statistical Report is compiled from voluntary surveys [...]
Reminder to Complete Your 2009 PLDS Questionnaire
Just a reminder to those of you who participate in PLA’s annual Public Library Data Service (PLDS) Statistical Report, that your completed questionnaires are due on April 6, 2009. To complete the survey online, visit http://illinois.edu/goto/PLDS. You will need to use your library’s individual User Name (your PLDS ID number) and Password as shown on [...]
Public Library Data Service demo
The PLDS Statistical Report, a project of the Public Library Association, is designed to meet the needs of public library administrators and others for timely and effective library-specific data that illuminates and supports a wide variety of management decisions. This data is now available in a dynamic, Web-based format via the PLDS Database (for detailed [...]





