By the Numbers: Do Hennen, LJ Ratings and Other Scores Tell the

Truth?

Nancy Davis, The Ivy GroupCathi Alloway, Dauphin County

Library System

HENNEN WEIGHTS

Expenditure Per Capita 3Cost Per Circ 3

Visits Per Capita 3Materials % of Budget 2Collection Turnover 2Circ Per FTE Staff Hour 2Circ Per Capita 2Circ Per Hour 2Reference Per Capita 2Materials $ Per Capita 2FTE staff Per 1000 Pop 2Periodicals Per 1000 Pop 1Volumes Per Capita 1Visits Per Hour 1Circ Per Visit 1

LIBRARY POP SCORE %ILE

Hotwings Mem PL 25K 559 58%Beefstock Mem PL 25K 464 43%Bacon Mem PL 25K 444 40%

Hotwings: 2 week loan period, 2 renewals = 3 circs for 6 weeks

Beeftips and Bacon: 3 week loan period, 1 renewal = 2 circs for 6 weeks

Visits

Circulation

Program Attendance

Public Internet Use

$$$$

Lower poverty

Higher education

Bigger collection

More outlets

Atglen

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

New Cumberland

Sewickley

Green Tree

Womelsdorf

Print - $120

Online - $250

Custom - more

YOUR PEER LIBRARIES

Collected by IMLS and PLA (library data):Service area population ANDTotal operating expenditures ANDNumber of outlets

Census data (demographics):Ethnicity of populationPoverty level of populationEducation level of populationAverage income and housing

By the Numbers: Do Hennen, LJ Ratings and Other Scores Tell the

Truth?

Nancy Davis, The Ivy GroupCathi Alloway, Dauphin County

Library System