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Public Library Policy Lab
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A lab that explores what public libraries should be through evaluation and analysis.
AboutAbout the lab
Questioning what public libraries should be.
The Public Library Policy Lab studies, from a variety of perspectives, how many public libraries, which are established and operated with tax money, society should ideally have.
The lab also considers methods for evaluating libraries.
It also surveys how the volume, structure, and content of the web change over time.
The lab also conducts research that measures the value public libraries bring to their communities, using methods such as cost-benefit analysis.
Key terms
- Cost-benefit analysis
- Cost-benefit analysis: a method of assessing the value of a project by comparing its costs with the benefits (gains) it produces
- Quantitative analysis
- Quantitative analysis: a method of measuring the subject of study in numbers and analyzing it, such as the volume or structure of the web
ResearchResearch themes
The lab examines, from a variety of perspectives, how many public libraries society should ideally have. It also works on methods for evaluating libraries and on quantitative analysis of the web.
*Illustrative imageLibrary Policy, Evaluation, and Web Surveys
The lab investigates, from a variety of perspectives, how many tax-funded public libraries society should ideally have. It also examines methods for evaluating libraries and surveys changes in the volume, structure, and content of the web.
*Illustrative imageMeasuring the Value of Public Libraries
This research measures the social and economic value that public libraries bring to their communities, using methods such as cost-benefit analysis. Estimating the economic value of public libraries has also been a topic of the lab's research presentations.
*Illustrative imageE-book Services in Public Libraries
The lab studies e-book services in public libraries, including the actual state of their content and a comparison of people's willingness to pay for borrowing print books versus borrowing e-books.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorAtsushi Ikeuchi
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Stack of journals and books in the Central Geological Survey Library, MOEA” Kai3952 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Library Policy, Evaluation, and Web Surveys: “Reading Room, St. Louis Central Public Library, Olive Street, St. Louis, MO” w_lemay / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Measuring the Value of Public Libraries: “Culmore Community Library” Mdy66 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- E-book Services in Public Libraries: “Technology-old days” katerha / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Library Cultural History Lab (Saori Donkai)): “Northeast Library reading room washington dc” Cornellrockey / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Library Management Strategy Lab): “Periodicals Quiet Reading Room Chapel Hill Public Library” Bbfd / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Public Library Studies Lab (Yuko Yoshida)): “Library desk, Reading Room, Mitchell Building” Pix Magazine Photographer / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Information Behavior Lab): “Man reading a newspaper at a café terrace in Athens, Greece - 1979” Jean-Louis Debaize / European Communities, 1979 / EC - Audiovisual Service / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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