Public Library Statistics
Title | Public Library Statistics PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Office of Education |
Publisher | |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | Public libraries |
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Collecting and Using Public Library Statistics
Title | Collecting and Using Public Library Statistics PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Smith |
Publisher | |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Discusses why we keep statistics; how to collect them; and how they can be used to allocate resources more effectively, to demonstrate need, and as a public relations tool.
National Inventory of Library Statistics Practices: Data collection on the National, State, and local levels
Title | National Inventory of Library Statistics Practices: Data collection on the National, State, and local levels PDF eBook |
Author | National Center for Education Statistics |
Publisher | |
Pages | 146 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Libraries |
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The Collection and Use of Public Library Statistics by State Library Agencies
Title | The Collection and Use of Public Library Statistics by State Library Agencies PDF eBook |
Author | David Nickell |
Publisher | [Chicago] : Library Administration and Management Association, ALA |
Pages | 710 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Library science |
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Academic Library Statistics
Title | Academic Library Statistics PDF eBook |
Author | Association of Research Libraries |
Publisher | Association of Research Libr |
Pages | 76 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Academic libraries |
ISBN |
The Tyranny of Metrics
Title | The Tyranny of Metrics PDF eBook |
Author | Jerry Z. Muller |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2019-04-30 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0691191263 |
How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens business, medicine, education, government—and the quality of our lives Today, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based on the numbers. But in our zeal to instill the evaluation process with scientific rigor, we've gone from measuring performance to fixating on measuring itself—and this tyranny of metrics now threatens the quality of our organizations and lives. In this brief, accessible, and powerful book, Jerry Muller uncovers the damage metrics are causing and shows how we can begin to fix the problem. Filled with examples from business, medicine, education, government, and other fields, the book explains why paying for measured performance doesn't work, why surgical scorecards may increase deaths, and much more. But Muller also shows that, when used as a complement to judgment based on personal experience, metrics can be beneficial, and he includes an invaluable checklist of when and how to use them. The result is an essential corrective to a harmful trend that increasingly affects us all.
National Inventory of Library Statistics Practices
Title | National Inventory of Library Statistics Practices PDF eBook |
Author | National Center for Education Statistics |
Publisher | |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Libraries |
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