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Economic Value of Public Libraries in the UK

  • Anne Morris , John Sumsion and Margaret Hawkins
Published/Copyright: December 4, 2007
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From the journal Volume 52 Issue 2

This paper summarises the results of a research project which assessed the economic impact of the public library service in the UK. Emphasis is given to a general descriptive model based on combining the diverse survey results of previous research, a survey to determine user perceptions of the value of a book loan, a model to illustrate the economic value of book buying compared to book lending in terms of the number of “reads” and estimates of the total value of the public library service to the economy. New performance indicators are also proposed.

Dr. Anne Morris, Reader in Information Processing, Department of Information Science, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, UK. Homepage: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/staff/amorris.html E-mail:
John W. Sumsion, OBE, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Information Science, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, UK. Homepage: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/staff/jsumison.html E-mail:
Margaret Hawkins, Research Associate, Department of Information Science, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, UK.
Received: 2002-02-27
Received: 2002-05-07
Accepted: 2002-05-22
Published Online: 2007-12-04
Published in Print: 2002-June

© 2002 by K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH, Federal Republic of Germany

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https://doi.org/10.1515/LIBR.2002.78

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  1. Democratisation of South African LIS Education: Some Causes and Effects
  2. The Case for Informationally Based Social Inclusion for Sex Workers: A South African Exploratory Study
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  5. Methods for the Analysis of the Uses of Scientific Information: The Case of the University of Extremadura (1996–7)
  6. Designing Library Space to Facilitate Learning: A Review of the UK Higher Education Sector
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