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Number of Electronic Materials, 1995-2002

Abstract

The bigger the library, the more electronic materials. The First Quartile libraries grew the fastest but still had the fewest such materials. The Third Quartile libraries grew the slowest of all.

Line plot of the raw number of electronic materials by group for 1995-2002

Data

The chart summarizes these values:

Number of Electronic Materials, by Group, 1995-2002
	First Quartile	Second Quartile	Third Quartile	Fourth Quartile	95%
1990	.	.	.	.	.
1991	.	.	.	.	.
1992	.	.	.	.	.
1993	.	.	.	.	.
1994	.	.	.	.	.
1995	3,760	21,353	52,897	253,729	756,696
1996	11,008	22,931	55,138	274,294	787,537
1997	8,093	26,342	64,391	363,466	873,453
1998	10,788	23,084	65,600	429,362	1,113,705
1999	15,086	28,365	75,679	517,011	1,257,938
2000	16,795	55,098	112,505	599,376	1,374,343
2001	19,911	97,525	171,052	817,871	1,709,229
2002	19,087	40,996	89,888	656,697	1,900,304
# increase 1995-2002	15,327	19,643	36,991	402,968	1,143,608
% increase 1995-2002	408	920	70	159	151

Note: The value for the Town of Ulster Public Library, Kinston, New York (newkey = NY0259) for POPU_UND for 1992 was 8,478, 1993 was 1, and 1994 was 11,507. In this analysis, the value for 1993 was changed to 9,993, the mean of the 1992 and 1994 figures.

October 22, 2004

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