American Library Association (ALA): “President Obama’s FY2012 Budget Request to Congress, proposed the elimination of the Statistical Compendia Branch in the U.S. Census Bureau. This branch compiles and releases all kinds of reports such as the Statistical Abstract and the “County and City Data Book” that include tremendous amounts of data used extensively by the public. Closing this branch and eliminating the productions of these free materials denies the public access to valuable information.”