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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