We need a national economic study of our public libraries.
Or an economic study of our North American public libraries.
A study done by economics experts and statistics experts or
experts in combinatorial mathematical theory to compile the
numbers so the study statistics aren't skewed.
The studies we do see are skewed. The interests of the
publishers or interests of the library profession have
weighted the statistics and erred by having chosen the
kinds of statistical analyses too selectively. I don't
think that the National Commission on Libraries
and Information Science NCLIS could do it.
A think tank could do it. I would hope you would be involved
in the design of a national economic study of our public
libraries with whatever think tank could do it addressing
the bias and too selective statistics of other related
studies -- perhaps the Carnegie people
http://www.carnegie.org/sub/program/national_program.html
We have national economic studies on other areas of
education, primary, secondary, post secondary,
higher education but I have not found an
unbiased national economic study of our public libraries.
Please advocate for a national economic study or a
North American economic study of our public libraries.
