Florida State University

Public libraries are being asked to serve increasingly diverse populations with diverse needs. In order to better measure the value and extent of services being delivered to such populations, public libraries need more specific data about their communities’s needs and about other libraries that serve similar populations. With these goals in mind, Florida State University’s School of Library and Information Studies will partner with the American Library Association and the Chief Officers of State Library Associations to develop a prototype Web-based mapping system that pulls data together from different sources. Through a series of national forum activities, the project team will solicit feedback on the prototype and learn about other services that library leaders believe would help them deliver better services to targeted user markets.