Public Library Materials Fund and Budget Survey 1999‐2001

Readers of this authoritative series will find this new addition as interesting and valuable as many of the others. Published in August 2000, it draws on survey data brought together after May 2000 covering UK public library materials funds and budgets in England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Data cover 1998/99 actuals, 1999/2000 original estimates, 1999/2000 actuals, and 2000/2001 estimates. These are applied descriptively and analytically to total library expenditure, materials expenditure (broken down into books, newspapers, sound and video recordings, CD‐ROM and online information services etc.), services to schools and agency services, as well as other information about...