The MBLC administers the Annual Report Information Survey (ARIS) and Financial Report in compliance with Massachusetts General Law, Chapter 78. Each fiscal year, public libraries are required to submit this data in order to receive State Aid to Public Libraries and to meet the Minimum Standards of Public Library Service.
ARIS and Financial Report data is submitted online through the Collect data management system. In a few months, MBLC will add Connect which will allow librarians to run customized library data reports.
- LOGIN to Collect
- Recording of ARIS Webinar - Recording of the ARIS webinar on June 22, 2021.
- Recording of Waiver Webinar - Recording of the Waiver webinar on September 15, 2021.
- Recording of the State Aid Webinar - Recording of the State Aid webinar from September, 2021.
- Overview of Collect - This is a recording of the overview that Jan Anderson of Baker & Taylor presented on May 23, 2019.
- ARIS - General Instructions & Tips for Using Collect and Detailed Definitions
- Financial - General Instructions & Tips for Using Collect and Detailed Definitions
- Counting Electronic Resources
- Counting Programs Template - Google Doc template used to track programs with the ARIS and Summer Reading categories. Big thanks to Christi Farrar and April Mazza at the Massachusetts Library System for their work on this.
- Due Dates for ARIS and State Aid as well as other notable dates
Selected survey information is also submitted to the Institute of Museum and Library Services for analysis at the national level, and as part of an agreement for the MBLC to administer certain federal grant funding.