Lynn Weinstein writes: “The census has been increasingly in the news these days, as the pandemic has caused its operations to be curtailed. The census responses are of critical importance because they can impact the drawing of congressional districts, the federal funding of programs, and they provide crucial statistics related to industries. As a business reference and research specialist in the Science, Technology, and Business Division, I depend on census data from both the Decennial Census as well as other censuses to answer questions for patrons.”