This past week, Funds For Learning attended the Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition (SHLB) Annual Conference and participated on a panel discussion tied to the FCC’s E-rate modernization efforts. The panel discussed E-rate trends, and there was considerable interest from the SHLB attendees for more data pertaining to the library community.
FFL analyzed the Block 6 data from all 46,046 Funding Year 2014 Forms 471 and found that there were 4,063 applicants that had identified themselves specifically as library applicants.
Block 6 Fields:
Our analysis has provided the following nationwide per-applicant averages for Libraries in FY 2014:
- Requested amount – $29,215
- Total E-rate project value – $37,472
- “Necessary resources” budgeted to use E-rate services – $109,386
- Annual spending (E-rate projects plus necessary resources) – $136,819
The complete set of Block 6 data for FY 2014 Library applicants can be viewed here.
