Barron County: Public Access Internet Computers (1999-2013) and Print Serial Subscriptions (1996-2013)

2010 population:  45,870

Public libraries:

• Barron Public Library
• Cameron Public Library
• Calhoun Memorial Library, Chetek
• Thomas St. Angelo Public Library of Cumberland
• Rice Lake Public Library
• Turtle Lake Public Library

This line-graph series is the result of my wondering if there's any pattern to the number of print serial subscriptions held by public libraries in relation to the increasing number of public access Internet computers provided by public libraries since 1999. (Earliest year for which Wisconsin statistics are available.)

Note: The 1996, 1997, 1998 Wisconsin public library annual reports asked for the following information: Libraries with Internet access. (Answered yes or no.) Libraries with electronic services. (Answered yes or no.) In 1999, public libraries reported the number of public access Internet computers for the first time in the annual report.

Like Adams County, this graph is along the lines of my expectations.

Source:  Wisconsin Public Library Service Data

Percentage change in print serial subscriptions from peak year:  -18.5%.

Indianhead Federated Library System

Other posts in series
(with percentage change in print serial subscriptions from peak year)
Adams County, -35.6%.  (11/12/2014)
Ashland County, -1.3%.  (11/13/2014)

Public Library Circulation and Circulation per Capita: Nevada (1990-2011)

Source:  Institute of Museum and Library Services, Public Libraries in the United States Survey (1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2011)

For more information:
Nevada State Library and Archives.  Nevada Library Statistics.
Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA):  Nevada.

Nevada's state library agency is in the "Other Agencies" category.   The Nevada State Library and Archives is a division of the Department of Administration.

Top 5 states, percentage increase in library circulation (1990-2011) at this point in the alphabet:

1. Nevada 288%
2. Colorado 205%
3. Idaho 157%
4. Florida 142%
5. Arizona 139%

Bottom 5 states, percentage increase in library circulation (1990-2011) at this point in the alphabet:

1. Mississippi 10.2%
2. Hawaii 11.8% 
3. Louisiana 15.9%
4. Alabama 28.1%
5. Iowa 30.8%

Top 5 states, per capita library circulation (2011) at this point in the alphabet:

1. Indiana 13.6
2. Colorado 13.0
3. Minnesota 11.1
4. Kansas 11.0
5. Idaho 10.9

 Bottom 5 states, per capita library circulation (2011) at this point in the alphabet:

1. Mississippi 2.9
2. Louisiana 4.41
3. Alabama 4.42
4. Georgia 4.5
5. Hawaii 5.1

Related posts:  State, % circulation increase 1990-2011.
Alabama, 28.1%.  (10/18/2014) 
Alaska, 48.3%.  (10/19/2014)
Arizona, 139%.  (10/20/2014)
Arkansas, 70.1%.  (10/21/2014)
California, 66.9%.  (10/22/2014)
Colorado, 205%.  (10/23/2014)
Connecticut, 46.3%.  (10/24/2014)
Delaware, 104%.    (10/25/2014)
Florida, 142%.  (10/26/2014)
Georgia, 87.0%.  (10/27/2014)
Hawaii, 11.8%.  (10/28/2014)
Idaho, 157%.  (10/29/2014)
Illinois, 105%.  (10/30/2014)
Indiana, 75.6%.  (10/31/2014)
Iowa, 30.8%.  (11/1/2014)
Kansas, 62.7%.  (11/2/2014)
Kentucky, 69.5%.  (11/3/2014)
Louisiana, 15.9%.  (11/4/2014)
Maine, 40.5%.   (11/5/2014)
Maryland, 30.9%.  (11/6/2014)
Massachusetts, 75.3%.  (11/7/2014)
Michigan, 101%.  (11/8/2014)
Minnesota, 49.6%  (11/9/2014)
Mississippi, 10.2%.  (11/10/2014)
Missouri, 78.2%.  (11/11/2014)
Montana, 84.3%.  (11/12/2014)
Nebraska, 89.4%.  (11/13/2014)

Scott Walker Takes His Tax Cut Cues from Sam Brownback

Two peas in an ALEC pod.



Kansas revenues will fall $1 billion short of 2015 and 2016 expenses, fiscal experts say. (Kansas City Star, 11/11/2014)

This is the playbook that Scott Walker is working from.

Kansas will collect $1 billion less in revenue in 2015 and 2016 than its projected expenses following massive income tax cuts signed into law by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback. 

The new revenue estimates released Monday revealed that Kansas would burn through about $380 million in reserves and still need to cut $280 million to balance its current budget for fiscal year 2015, which ends next June 30. 

The problem continues in 2016 when revenues are projected to run $436 million short of expenditures, the estimates show.

Brain-dead Kansas election results are now an expected fact of life.  This chilling news about declining revenues was news months before the election, but few people paid attention.