Last year, the Census Bureau announced that it would discontinue updating the Statistical Abstract of the United States in order to shift funds to other programs. Needless to say, the research community was not happy. Data users, librarians, and journalists rely on the Statistical Abstract as their go-to answer book to statistical questions and as a finding aid to other statistical sources. Published annually since 1878, the Abstract is the best-known, most-used statistical reference tool in the country, and perhaps the world. The library staff is now deciding between the online version or the hard copy. But we will have it!
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