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    <title>Measuring your library's value</title>
    <subTitle>how to do a cost-benefit analysis for your public library</subTitle>
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    <publisher>American Library Association</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2007</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>vii, 181 p. : ill.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>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.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Donald S. Elliott ... [et al.].</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
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