Comments on: PL 24/11: Size matters http://pliny.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/pl-2411/ For global libraries Wed, 15 May 2013 07:22:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Library Science | Lib(rary) Performance http://pliny.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/pl-2411/#comment-4594 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:40:22 +0000 http://pliny.wordpress.com/?p=3844#comment-4594 [...] I made the claim a couple of things made me wonder more about it. First, Tord Høivik found quite opposite trends based on Norwegian public library statistics he analyzed from the KOSTRA municipal-county reporting [...]

]]> By: raylyons http://pliny.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/pl-2411/#comment-4405 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:12:12 +0000 http://pliny.wordpress.com/?p=3844#comment-4405 Hello Tord (Plinius)

How intriguing! I would love to explore this difference between Norway and U.S. statistics further sometime.

As my recent blog reports (http://wp.me/pTGLM-27d), we see the opposite pattern in U.S. libraries. A few years ago I looked at this by aggregating longitudinal data (1999 – 2004). Here are links to charts of visits per capita (http://www.plstatreports.com/plq26/box30.htm) and circulation (loans) per capita (http://www.plstatreports.com/plq26/box33.htm). Mean and median values for the different sized libraries are not too divergent. However, the tiniest libraries consistently surpass the others on these measures.

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