Worth their weight: An assessment of the evolving field of library evaluation

Public Library Quarterly

Volumn 26, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 31-48

  Imholz, Susan ^b   Arns, Jennifer Weil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Americans for Libraries Council; Cost benefit analysis; Economic impact analysis; Return on investment (ROI); Social return on investment (SROI); Valuation studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 67749113391     PISSN: 01616846     EISSN: 15411540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J118v26n03_03     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. ALC may be contacted at 27 Union Square West, Suite 204, New York, New York 10003, Telephone 646.336.6236. Website address is americansforlibraries.org.
2. SirsiDynix, under new ownership, in May 2007 announced that it would no longer support NDP. They eliminated the staff position that had been supporting the NDP.
3. The mission of BEA is to produce and disseminate economic accounts statistics that provide government, businesses, households, and individuals with a comprehensive picture of U.S. economic activity (http://www bea doc.gov).
4. Bureau of Labor Statistics data covers employment, prices and living conditions, compensation, and living conditions, and productivity and technology (http://www.bls.gov/data/home.htm). BEA and BLS data are now totally integrated.
5. REMI was designed by Fred Treyze from the University of Massachusetts in 1980 and is sold by a private company.