Introduction
Surveying all the School Library Media Centers is a difficult problem and typically, NCES has sampled them and issued reports. These are the publications I have found or identified.
| Type of publication | File type | Title | File name | File size | Notes |
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| First Look | Characteristics of Public and Bureau of Indian Education Elementary and Secondary School Library Media Centers in the United States: Results from the 2007-98 Schools and Staffing Survey | 2009322.pdf | 1.2MB | June 2009 NCES 2009-322 |
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| Fast Response Survey | Internet Access in U.S. Public Schools and Classrooms: 1994-2005 | 2007020.pdf | 659 KB | November 2006 NCES 2007-020 |
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| EDTab | Characteristics of Schools, Districts, Teachers, Principals, and School Libraries in the United States: 2003-04 Schools and Staffing Survey (NCES 2006-313 Revised) | 2006313.pdf | 1.2MB | March 2006, revised June 2007 NCES 2006-313 School and Staffing Survey |
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| America’s Public School Libraries: 1953-2000 | 2005324.pdf | 768 KB | March 2005 NCES 2005-324 School and Staffing Survey |
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| Fifty Years of Supporting Children’s Learning: A History of Public School Libraries and Federal Legislation From 1953 to 2000) | 2005311.pdf | 820 KB | March 2005 NCES 2005-311 School and Staffing Survey |
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| ED Tab | School Library Media Centers: Selected Results From the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS: 2002) The Education Longitudinal Study 2002 has a separate Website. This is one publication of many from that study and, I believe, the only one related to SLMCs. |
2005302.pdf | 882 KB | December 2004 NCES 2005302 |
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| ED Tab | The Status of Public and Private School Library Media Centers in the United States: 1999-2000 | 2004313.pdf | 611 KB | March 2004 NCES 2004313 |
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| Documentation | Documentation to the NCES Common Core of Data Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey, 1999-2000 | psu99gen.pdf | 333 KB | ||
| Technical Report | Evaluation of Definitions and Analysis of Comparative Data for the School Library Statistics Program | 98267.pdf | 535 KB | September 1998 NCES 98-267 |
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| Technical Report | School Library Media Centers, 1993-94 | 98282.pdf | 1,068 KB | August 1998 NCES 98-282 |
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| Statistical Analysis Report Schools and Staffing Survey |
School Library Media Centers in the United States, 1990-91 | Available from GPO? Ordering information. |
November 1994 NCES 94326 |
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| Data file? | Survey of Public and Private School Libraries and Media Centers, 1985 | Not available | Identified at ICPSR ICPSR 2227, 2002 |
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| Data file | PDF ASCII ASCII ASCII |
Library General Information Survey (LIBGIS) I: Public School Libraries/Media Centers, Fall 1974 (documentation) Data file SAS program SPSS program |
cb2225.pdf da2225.txt sa2225.txt sp2225.txt |
1,221 KB 1,847 KB 29 KB 31 KB |
ICPSR 2225 Mar |