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Measuring Your Library's Value

Author: Donald S. Elliott Glen E. Holt Sterling W. Hayden Leslie Edmonds Holt

Rs. 775

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ISBN 9788170005674
Year of Publication 2009
Binding HardBound
Pages
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Language English
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Under pressure to quantify the benefits your library provides? Is a cost-benefit analysis right for your institution? With tax-funded organization under microscopic scrutiny, library directors need to make a strong public case for the value their library providers.
Measuring your Library's Value is designed to serve large to medium-sized public librarians, the tools to conduct a defensible and credible cost-benefit analysis (CBA). This hands-on reference covers the economic basics with librarians-friendly terms and examples, preparing library leaders to collaborate with economist-consultants. Librarians, Library directors and trustees can use this book to:
Ascertain whether a CBA is the way to go using checklist of pros and cons
Confidently customize the CBA process by viewing survey design elements step by-step
Learn how to calculate the value a community receives from library services,.
Access proven examples for communicating what different community stakeholders need to hear.
Authored by members of the team that spent more than a decade developing testing, and perfecting this methodology, measuring your Library's Value is based on research funded by IMLS and PLA. Now you can credibly measure the dollars-and cents value your libary provides to your community.


ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1 Introduction to Cost-Benefit Analysis for Public Libraries
2 Fundamentals of Cost-Benefit Analysis
3 Important Considerations before Commissioning a CBA Study
4 Preparing to Measure Benefits
5 Measuring Library Benefits: Identifying and Sampling
6 Measuring Library Benefits: Preparing the Survey Instruments
7 Measuring Library Costs
8 Measuring Return to Taxpayer and Donor Investment in the Library
9 Wrapping Up Your Study: Communicating Your CBA Findings
10 Conclusions: Evaluating What Your CBA Study Accomplished
APPENDIXES
A Measuring Consumer Surplus by Contingent Purchases of Substitutes: A Technical Appendix for Economists
B Sampling Cardholders
C Survey Instruments
D Calculating and Reporting Survey Response Rates
E Technical Insights for Project Consultants
GLOSSARY
INDEX

Dr. Donld S. Ellott is Professor and Graduate Program director in the Department of Economics and Finance at Southern Illinois University and graduates students in the School of Business and in managerial economic to MBA students. He received his Ph/ D. in economics from the University of Minnesota in 1976.
Dr. Glen Holt is the Editor of Haworth press's Public Library Quarterly. He is a regular columnist on library economics in Emerald Press's The Bottom Line and a regular columnist for the electronic journal LLN (Library Leadership Network) Bulletin. Dr. Holt is a winner of PLA's Charlie Robinson Award (2003) for innovation and risk taking in the profession, and he was a member of the Bertelsmann Foundation's International Network of Public Librarians from 1996 until 2003, developing best practices applicable to libraries worldwide. Dr. Holt was Director of St. Louis Public Library from 1987 until 2004 and before that served as a teacher and administrator at washington University in St. Louis and at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Campus. He holds a BA from Baker University in Kansas and an MA and Ph. D. from University of Chicago.
Dr. Sterling W. Hayden is currently serving as Vice President for Found Development an Evaluation with the Area Resources for Community and Human Services in St. Louis, Missouri. He received his Ph. D. from the University of Missouri Columbia.
Dr. Leslie Edmonds Holt Consults with libraries and Child-serving agencies. She was the director of youth services at St. Louis Public Library from 1990 to 2004. She taught at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois-Champaign. Dr. Edmonds Holt was President of the Association of Library Service for Children. She research on how children use library catalogs. She has done research on how to improve service to middle school students that is the bsis for this book. She holds a BA from Cornell College in low, and MA in Library Science from the University of Chicago. and a PhD from Loyola University Chicago.

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