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

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

For more information:
Tennessee Secretary of State.  Public Library Statistics.
Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA):  Tennessee.

Tennessee's state library agency, the Tennessee State Library and Archives,  is in the "Department of State" category.  

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

1. Nevada 288%
2. Colorado 205%
3. Oregon 193%
4. Idaho 157%
5. Florida 142%

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. Oregon 17.2
2. Ohio 16.6
3. Indiana 13.6
4. Colorado 13.0
5. Minnesota 11.1

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

1. Mississippi 2.9 
2. Tennessee 4.1
3. Louisiana 4.41
4. Alabama 4.42
5. Georgia 4.5

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)
Nevada, 288%.  (11/14/2015)
New Hampshire, 59%.  (11/15/2014)
New Jersey, 58.6%.  (11/16/2014)
New Mexico, 42.3%.  (11/17/2014
New York, 43.7%.  (11/18/2014)
North Carolina, 75.1%.  (11/19/2014)
North Dakota, 38.9%.  (11/20/2014)
Ohio, 71.7%.  (11/21/2014)
Oklahoma, 46%.  (11/22/2014)
Oregon, 193%.  (11/23/2014)
Pennsylvania, 48.5%.  (11/24/2014)
Rhode Island, 37.6%.  (11/25/2014)
South Carolina 135%,  (11/26/2014)
South Dakota, 62.6%.  (11/27/2014)
Tennessee, 55.0%.  (11/28/2014)

Virginia Heffernan Sums Up the Oculus Rift: It "doesn't make you vomit"

Virtual Reality Fails Its Way to Success. (The New York Times Magazine, 11/14/2014)

Immersive, transporting, revolutionary. But most of all, non-nauseating. That’s the term that sets the Oculus Rift apart from the long line of demoralizing virtual-reality Edsels that preceded it. The chief asset of the Rift — more than its dazzling specs, more than Facebook’s sizable investment in it — is its dignified, non-emetic quality

September 23, 1959: Nikita Khrushchev Visits Iowa

Khrushchev in Iowa. (Humanities, July/August 2009)

It was September 23, 1959, the day that Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev came to town to visit his friend, seed corn salesman Roswell Garst, and to witness cutting-edge American agricultural technology. The event drew hundreds of reporters and thousands of curiosity-seekers eager to catch a glimpse of the world’s leading Communist.

National Agriculture Hall of Fame



Related articles:
Corn Diplomacy and the Cold War.  (BackStory, 10/6/2013)
Remembering Khrushchev's Visit to Iowa.  (Iowa Journal, 9/18/2009)
50th Anniversary Of Khrushchev's Visit To Iowa Is Celebrated.  (Agriculturist, 8/31/2009)