Long Range Planning Resources
Community Information and Data
- Mass Gov Portal
- National Center for Education Statistics (school district data)
- United States Census Bureau
- Zip Skinny
CPLA Facilities Planning and Maintaining Buildings
- Executive Summary
- Web-based Space Planning Resources
- Facilites Manager Job Description
- American with Disabilities Act (ADA) Requirements
- Sample Homework Center Project Planning
Evaluation
- Institute of Museum and Library Services (Showing the Difference We Make: Outcome Evaluation in Libraries and Museums )
- Southern Ontario Library Service (The Library's Contribution to Your Community: A Resource Manual for Libraries to Document their Social and Economic Contribution to the Local Community).
- University of Michigan and the University of Washington (How Libraries and Librarians Help – Putting Outcome Evaluation in Context: A Toolkit)
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation (W.K. Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook).
The Future of Libraries and Information Services
- Long Overdue: A Fresh Look at Public and Leadership Attitudes About Libraries in the 21st Century
- 2005 Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources
- 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan: Pattern Recognition
- Reading at Risk (National Endowment for the Arts)
- The Continuing Evolution of the Internet (Pew Internet & American Life Project)
Library Data
- MBLC Your share of the Municipal Pie
- MBLC Library Statistics
- MBLC Circulation and Holdings Report
- MBLC Library Services AT a Glance Directory
- Massachusetts Regulations for Public Libraries
- National Center for Education Statistics Public Library Search
- Federal State Cooperative Service for Public Library Data
- ACRL/LAMA Space Planning for Academic Libraries