Measuring value and return on investment of academic libraries

Return on Investment: Libraries and Student Retention

Using data on libraries collected by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), as well as fall-to-fall retention rates obtained from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), this study employs statistical measures of association to analyze the relationship of...

Lib-Value: Values, Outcomes, and Return on Investment of Academic Libraries, Phase III: ROI of the Syracuse University Library

Bruce Kingma is a Professor in the School of Information Studies and Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University; e-mail: [email protected]. Kathleen McClure is Systems Librarian at the Okefenokee Regional Library System, e-mail: [email protected]. © 2015 Bruce Kingma and Kathleen McClure, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC. This study me...

Measuring the return on our investment.

Return on investment: workload, complexity and value of the CNS.

UNLABELLED The rheumatology nurse specialist (RNS) has become an integral and vital part of the multidisciplinary team and is valued by patients. Yet, a number of challenges regularly face all clinical nurse specialists (CNS) in the UK. The perception that CNS are an expensive and poorly defined nursing resource results in regular threats to their sustainability, particularly that of the RNS. T...

Measuring return on investment of outreach by community health workers.

Community health workers (CHWs) are effective in improving access to health care, promoting client knowledge and behavior change, and contributing to improved health status of individuals. However, few outreach programs have evaluated the financial impact of CHWs on health care systems and policies. A longitudinal repeated measures design was used to assess the return on investment (ROI) of out...