May 23, 2013

LJ Index 2012: Find Your Library

Whether or not your library has been given a star rating, you can benefit from finding peers in your expenditure category and comparing stats. For the scores for all 7,570 libraries included in this round of the LJ Index, download this document to see the libraries rated, their ratings, and the data from which the ratings were derived:

spreadsheet 128x128 LJ Index 2012: Find Your LibraryAll Libraries Rated in the LJ Index 2012

If you cannot find your library, please review the criteria for inclusion in the LJ Index, or check the document below, which lists excluded libraries and the reasons for their exclusion:

spreadsheet 128x128 LJ Index 2012: Find Your LibraryLibraries excluded from the LJ Index 2012

If your library subscribes to Bibliostat Connect, you can search all of the included library data there.

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Ray Lyons (raylyons@gmail.com) is an independent consultant and statistical programmer in Cleveland. His articles on library statistics and assessment have also appeared in Public Library Quarterly, Public Libraries, and Evidence Based Library and Information Practice. He blogs on library statistics and assessment at libperformance.com.
Keith Curry Lance (keithlance@comcast.net) is an independent consultant based in suburban Denver. He also consults with the Colorado-based RSL Research Group. In these capacities, he is currently working with the Colorado State Library, Nashville Public Library, Nebraska Library Commission, and a consortium of Pennsylvania organizations studying school libraries.

Comments

  1. Steve Benson says:

    The download of the zip file of all rated libraries seems incomplete – at the least, missing instructions on how to display the list?

  2. Josh Hadro Josh Hadro says:

    It seems there is a problem in the way Internet Explorer 8 handles the XLSX files we had uploaded. I’ve replaced those with versions saved as XLS, which seems to take care of the IE 8 issue.
    If you have any further issues downloading, please let me know at jhadro@mediasourceinc.com.

    Thanks –

    Josh Hadro, executive editor, LJ

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