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Title Measuring your library's value : how to do a cost-benefit analysis for your public library / Donald S. Elliott ... [et al.].

Imprint Chicago : American Library Association, 2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  025.1 M463 2007    ---  Available
Description vii, 181 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction to cost-benefit analysis for public libraries -- Fundamentals of cost-benefit analysis -- Important considerations before commissioning a CBA study -- Preparing to measure benefits -- Measuring library benefits : identifying and sampling library users -- Measuring library benefits : preparing the survey instruments -- Measuring library costs -- Measuring return to taxpayer and donor investment in your library -- Wrapping up your study : communicating your CBA findings -- Conclusions : evaluating what your CBA study accomplished.
Subject Public libraries -- Cost effectiveness -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Public libraries -- Evaluation -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Added Author Elliott, Donald S.
ISBN 083890923X (alk. paper)
9780838909232 (alk. paper)
Standard No. YDXCP 2485110
NZ1 10893807
AU@ 000040464204

 
    
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