Institute of Museum and Library Services federal obligations in Texas

A thin IMLS file on Texas

Institute of Museum and Library Services as awarding agency, Texas as place-of-performance: 61 records summing to $56,451,200. An Institute of Museum and Library Services award coded outside TX is out. An award in Texas from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Texas (TX) excludes Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Mexico. An Oklahoma-coded award is OK even if a traveling exhibit later sits in Texas. Awarding agency 474 museum-versus-library splits stay unpublished on this Texas cell.

Sixty-one records against $56,451,200 is a thin IMLS file, thinner than California’s 193-row cell, with a high implied mean. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 61 as 61 unique museums, named libraries, or unique grants as institutions. The overlay Institute of Museum and Library Services in Texas is the both-keys table. Texas federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Institute of Museum and Library Services is the agency book without a TX filter. All spending ties lists other joins. Named systems are unpublished. Do not assign $56,451,200 to a single Texas library or treat 61 as unique institutions. Correlation is not causation: Texas did not cause $56,451,200 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 474 × TX only.

Not unique museums or named library systems

$56,451,200 does not measure unique museums, named libraries, or unique grants as institutions. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 474 and a TX place-of-performance tag. Awarding agency 474 museum-versus-library splits stay unpublished on this Texas cell.

Do not treat 61 awards as a census of unique museums, named libraries, or unique grants as institutions. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Texas federal spending or Institute of Museum and Library Services matched $56,451,200 and 61, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Oklahoma, Arkansas, and California IMLS joins are other pairs, not addends. Sixty-one is not unique Texas museums. A high implied mean is a quotient, not a typical grant.

Texas statewide, not a Houston-versus-Austin split

Place of performance TX is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Texas (TX) excludes Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Mexico. An Oklahoma-coded award is OK even if a traveling exhibit later sits in Texas. Recipient address can differ from that state tag. Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, and the rest of the counties share one TX stamp.

Named systems are unpublished. Do not assign $56,451,200 to a single Texas library or treat 61 as unique institutions. This packet does not split $56,451,200 by city, county, or named facility. 61 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract. FEC donation tables do not fund these USAspending obligations.

Few rows, still grant obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $56,451,200 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Texas confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Texas’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 61-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $56,451,200. Sixty-one is not unique Texas museums. A high implied mean is a quotient, not a typical grant.

Citing IMLS in Texas

Cite USAspending.gov: Institute of Museum and Library Services (agency 474) obligated $56,451,200 on 61 awards coded to Texas. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as unique museums, named libraries, or unique grants as institutions. The pair is IMLS plus Texas, not a statewide library ranking.

Prefer Institute of Museum and Library Services in Texas if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Texas federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to TX. Institute of Museum and Library Services is the 474 parent without the TX filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $56,451,200. A usable footnote names Institute of Museum and Library Services, Texas, $56,451,200, and 61. The compact headline $56.5 million is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $925,430 is $56,451,200 divided by 61. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Institute of Museum and Library Services obligated in Texas?

USAspending.gov records $56,451,200 across 61 awards with awarding agency 474 and a Texas tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of unique museums, named libraries, or unique grants as institutions. Institute of Museum and Library Services in Texas is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $56,451,200.

Is $56,451,200 a measure of unique museums, named libraries, or unique grants as institutions?

No. The packet publishes $56,451,200 and 61 awards for agency 474 inside TX coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays. Keep both keys.

Does 61 IMLS awards mean 61 Texas libraries?

No. 61 is the award-record count for 474 × TX. Combined with $56,451,200, the average is about $925,430. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 61 is not unique museums, named libraries, or unique grants as institutions. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live IMLS–Texas table?

Institute of Museum and Library Services in Texas is the overlay. Texas federal spending and Institute of Museum and Library Services are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $56,451,200. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.