The 2009 Edition rates over 9,000 public libraries in the United States using the latest federal data. Libraries are rated, scored and ranked on 15 input and output measures.

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Responses to the LJ Index

Response to the LJ Index 2009 Round Two feedback page about Documented Claims as published on the LJ Index Web site on January 15, 2010.

Press release on LJ Index, Round Two. The latest LJ Index Scores were published on November 16. See my comments at: Outliers and Misbehaving Data

The new LJ Index is flattering because some of my chief critics have finally agreed to the need to evaluate public libraries. My comments on the LJ Index are here.

Here is a side by side comparison of all library scores in HAPLR and the LJ Index (Round One).

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