List of Libraries in PLDF3

Beginning Date

The beginning date the various states reported is available. This file proved useful in making calculations in the process of developing PLDF3. The term “first year” is used in the table of the list of libraries in PLDF3 that is made available below to mean the first year that particular library reported to FSCS. In most cases, the beginning date and first year are the same but not in all cases.

These files have the list of libraries in different formates. Each has a line for each of the 9,893 libraries ever reporting to NCES that is in PLDF3.

The list of the libraries is of the following form:

These libraries listed were on the main PLDF3 page except for Otis PL which was included to show a library with a span that is other than A. Otis (CO0091) began reporting data in 1987 and stopped in 1989 having reported data for three years. The information in this file and the newkey were gleaned from the 1989 data. Curiously, during those three years, Otis had three separate FSCSKEYs.

The list of libraries files are in order by newkey

The list of libraries for the states for which a PLDF3 file is available as an ASCII file, a SAS dataset, an Open Office Calc .ods spreadsheet, and an Excel .xls spreadsheet. The native format for this compilation is the SAS dataset from which the other files are derived. The .xls file is derived from the Open Office .ods file with a "save as."

December 27, 2007