Read about my Spring '23 Intro to Data Science Project!

As an MLIS student, I went into this assignment motivated to find comparative data on social services and resources across U.S. libraries, but I could find none. While extensive data exists on details of library staffing, programming, budgets, and more (Public Libraries Survey, 2020), I could find none that audited resource availability for underserved populations (Gray, 2018). Thus, out of my own curiosity and for the value of tracking resource availability nationally, I decided to create a dataset to fill this gap. Click on the box to the left to read more about this novel dataset and see my analysis of this data.