The 2024 Public Library Annual Report (PLAR) will open on January 13, 2024. The PLAR is due March 21, 2024
Contact Charissa Brammer at brammer_c@cde.state.co.us or 720-648-2948 (call/text) any time during business hours if you have questions or concerns about the survey.
Are you new to the PLAR? Check out the 5 Ws of the Public Library Annual Report for an overview.
Check back to this page for more information as details are finalized.
Changes/Additions
Electronic Resources
Change from counting collection & usage to counting purchasing/expenditures.
Categories:
- Electronic Books
- Electronic Serials
- Electronic Audio
- Electronic Video
- Research Databases
- Online Learning platforms
For each, asked if you purchase them as a library/system (AE or administrative entity), via the state (we don’t have this), and then via collective (CLiC, Marmot, Front Range, etc)
E-materials circulation:
- E-book circulation
- E-serial circulation
- E-audio circulation
- E-video circulation
This is simpler than what we collected last year, especially for e-audio and e-video
Public service hours
Back to libraries doing the annual calculations- our “solution” made it a lot more complicated. Keeping it at the branch level.
Updated definitions
- Electronic content expenditures – removed language around diskettes and CD-ROMs
- Other physical materials expenditures – adds language about tangible digital media & portable electronic materials
- Total reference transactions – clarified what is a reference transaction
- Total number of asynchronous program presentations – clarified what programming is counted
- Total views of asynchronous program presentations within 30 days – clarifies what is counted
Questions removed
- Electronic Content Use
- Total Collection Use
- Website Visits
- Electronic collections
- # of local/other cooperative agreements
- # of state electronic collections
- # of total electronic collections
- average number of hours open per week, per outlet
- Meeting rooms/use – only in the outlet section
HELP AND RESOURCES
- Slides from 11/21/2024 webinar
- Marmot Downloadable Count (coming soon!)