LISU's Public Library Materials Fund and Budget Survey ceases publication

LISU has been forced to discontinue this annual statistical series because of the withdrawal of financial support for its compilation from the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. The issue covering 2004-2006 data, published in September 2005, will therefore be the end of a series which has run for some 20 years, and which has provided invaluable management data on the materials budgets of public libraries