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TIPS FOR USING BIBLIOSTAT FOR IPLAR & ILLINET
Every library should be testing its Username and Password to gain access to the IPLAR and/or ILLINET ILL Traffic Form Surveys. Letters with the Username and Password have been sent to every ILLINET library via the U.S. Postal Service. You are encouraged to test your “log in” today.

If you are having technology/access issues, call the Bibliostat Help Desk at 1-866-785-9935. The Help Desk staff will walk you through some troubleshooting tips to gain access-primarily dealing with pop-up blockers and clearing your browsing history/cache.

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642 Public Libraries, 61 million patron visits, you do the math!

According to the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics:

  • 66 percent of all households in the U.S. visited a public library in the last year. Among households with children under 18 years of age, 61 percent visited the library.

According to the Illinois State Library:

  • More than 61 million patron visits are made to Illinois public libraries annually.
  • Illinoisans borrow more than 88.7 million items per year from their public libraries—books and magazines,but also compact discs, video and audio tapes, digital video discs, computer software, and more.
  • Illinois reference librarians answer 16 million questions each year; 30 percent of the inquiries are from children.
  • Residents in rural areas check out almost twice as many books per person as those living in urban areas.
  • In 2002, per capita funding for Illinois public libraries was $54.34. Local funding accounted for 85 percent of the total.

from Illinois Libraries Today, Illinois Library Association, August 2004.

Photo Caption: LaSalle Public Library, LaSalle, Illinois

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