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More about that later. not be expected to help the audience essential, esteemed workers on which our understand the pricing of subscriptions and organizations rely. We will not be passed The vendor spent millions of dollars how they impact budgets going forward by or bypassed. The sales strategy is just developing the product on display. In or the price and use of similar products another reminder to be attentive to how addition to its sophisticated use of color, that are available. Library expertise and we are engaged with our organizations and background music, and refined design, contextual information are critical to wise library users. the product has an attractive, easy-to-use selection. Web interface. 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He wanted the is the work of our state association and reduced attention spans. Very important to audience to make his product a successful our member volunteers that supports our his presentation, the salesman is marketing purchase. In doing his job, the sales efforts to become and remain esteemed, the initial subscription for his product at a representative provided a valuable opening indispensible, respected members of our competitive price point. for librarians. The full dimension of the organizations. library worker’s job is to be committed to Change will not stop and challenges are I left the presentation thinking about the the organizational mission, have strong more easily met when you are working vendor’s strategy of bypassing the library relationships within the organization, with colleagues across the state. I encourage and what it could mean for librarians. In and demonstrate professional expertise. you to be active in TLA. 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his State budget is still a couple of held events, and had others speak up for respectively. There may be some floor months from being finalized. At this libraries. Thank you for all your terrific amendments to support library funding. T stage of the legislative process, the work. I now ask that you keep it up! All librarians and library supporters Senate Finance and House Appropriations The reality is that the State Capitol has should be ready to call or email their Committees have both recommended about 10 to 15 groups marching the legislators to ask for supportive votes most of the funding requested by the halls on any given day. Legislators’ offices in these matters. TLA will post this State Library and Archives Commission usually schedule constituent or lobby information on our division email for library digital content (e.g., TexShare meetings about three times an hour every lists. Make sure you watch for these and K-12 database access). The agency day. Legislators and their staffs can receive announcements and act on them in a requested a total of $9.25 million over hundreds (and on occasion thousands) timely manner! the biennium. The recommendation for of letters, emails, faxes, and calls in one Then, the House and Senate will have to funding for this item is $7.25 million day. In short, offices are bombarded reconcile the differences in their respective in the House, and $7.5 million in the with constituent requests continuously. versions of the budget. This process Senate as of the time TLJ went to press. I remember sitting in on one hearing happens through a specially-appointed The agency’s other requests for additional where one legislator stated he had already conference committee. This stage is the funds are still open for consideration but received close to 3,000 messages in a few fourth quarter of the game, and all library not funded at this time. hours about an issue. supporters must remain vigilant and active. The good news is that lawmakers The bottom line is that we cannot feel If you are a library supporter who has not definitely understand that the state must that our job is complete until our goal yet had the opportunity to speak out in reinvest in libraries. Legislators have is achieved. It is natural for folks to feel responded well to information about the support for library funding this session, “we’ve done our part,” but the truth there are plenty of opportunities to run importance of statewide digital resources is advocacy is a continued, unceasing for libraries, the cost-effectiveness of the with the ball! (I’ve been practicing my activity. There are many ways to keep the sports metaphors.) You just need the state run program, and the imperative to momentum going – draft new letters, provide funds to help the State Library will to work on behalf of libraries – the recruit new supporters, send a friendly very same thing each of us expects of our make the case for continuation of federal update about your library to legislative funds in 2015. Without a waiver from legislative officials. We should be willing offices, thank legislators for their support to do the same. the federal government (since Texas so far, post a message on a legislator’s failed to meet its maintenance of effort Facebook page, and on and on. This session, we’ve had wonderful requirement for state spending in 2012 advocacy from TLA members, partnering and will do so again in 2013), the state Political action is a result most often of groups, State Library commissioners, and may lose up to $9 million in federal perceived pressure and monitoring. If lay supporters. And we’ve had terrific support in 2015. These funds have legislators know that constituents are bipartisan support from legislative offices. sustained statewide library programming following the process, monitoring an Several wonderful resources – such at the this last year and, without which, many elected official’s response, and taking State Library’s ROI study and TLA’s PR existing programs may well end. the time to stay “in the loop,” the more Toolkit (both of which are highlighted in commitment the legislative office is this issue of the Journal) – are available The hard news is that a lot of things can likely to demonstrate for the cause. It’s happen between now and the end of the for your use. I encourage you to review simple relationship building in the end. these publications, as well as the materials session. Fates can change for the better Relationships must be nurtured. and the worse. available on TLA’s advocacy site: www. The work remaining to us is to promote txla.org/advocacy-tools. There is much So, now is the time I tell all library library funding initiatives (including we have to help us promote our value. advocates the WORK REALLY BEGINS. those not yet funded) in the State Let’s prove our mettle and speak out for Many of you have already visited with your Library’s budget through the House and libraries. J elected officials, made calls, sent email, Senate floor votes on HB 1 and SB 1,

. . . we cannot feel that our job is complete until our goal is achieved

TEXAS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 5 Texas Public Libraries: Economic Benefits and Return on Investment

Prepared for the Texas State Library and Archives Commission by the Bureau of verifiable local economic activity. The Texas Business Research IC2 Institute, The University of Texas at Austin (December 2012) ratio compares favorably to results in prior studies of other states and cities, given Editor’s Note: The full report is available online at website of the Texas State Library the conservative approaches used in this and Archives Commission. The excerpts included here were formatted for length. To analysis. access the full report, go to: https://www.tsl.state.tx.us/roi. Yet the impacts of Texas’ public libraries Executive Summary continue to be underestimated. No benefits have been included in this analysis Public libraries in the State of conservatively estimated at $1.364 billion. for the numerous, specific examples in Texas provide significant economic These values combined with the benefits which libraries have enabled business benefits for their communities. This of local economic activity ($1.043 billion) organizations, businesses, and self- report examines these economic benefits, produce a total return on investment of employed individuals to improve their and documents those activities which $2.407 billion. economic activities or the value of libraries’ contribute to economic activities While the identifiable economic benefits activities that have assisted individuals throughout all regions of Texas. In 2011 are significant, public libraries’ economic to obtain employment. Nor were we Texas public libraries collectively were impacts are far greater than we can estimate able to include monetary values for the found to provide $2.407 billion in benefits as many economic benefits are difficult contributions of Texas libraries to a more while costing less than $0.545 billion, to quantify. Case profiles were developed educated workforce and higher quality of a return on investment of $4.42 for each about specific libraries’ activities with life, both of which are vital for sustained dollar invested. business organizations and assistance to economic development. A data-intensive research design was self-employed individuals, entrepreneurs, developed to quantify economic benefits. small businesses, employees, and Chapter I. Introduction: Extensive data from the Texas State Library employers. Many of the 40 case profiles Scope, Methodology, and Archives Commission (TSLAC) were illustrate a public library’s significant role Limitations used in conjunction with the input-output for job seekers, job training, and workforce economic modeling software, IMPLAN. development. Others highlight unique Project Goals Additional data and information from a and innovative service approaches or Libraries are collections of books and survey of all Texas public library directors ongoing collaborations with Chambers of periodicals, sources of access to digital were used as inputs to the economic model. Commerce. These examples describe the repositories, entry points to municipal, widespread, unmeasured economic impacts Based on the IMPLAN model, which state, and federal government programs, of public libraries of all sizes and in all analyzed public libraries purely as business and destination points for children and types of locations (rural, suburban, and and organizational entities, libraries adults. They can assist in rejuvenating major metropolitan areas) in Texas. produced $1.043 billion in local economic neighborhoods and preventing population activity. Further, in 2011 more than 12,000 A second set of profiles focuses on loss in rural communities. Public libraries jobs in Texas were dependent on public economic impact estimates for 14 also have economic impacts, both short- library expenditures. individual libraries. Four of these libraries and long-term. This study examined the serve fewer than 10,000 residents, seven economic benefits, economic impacts, Another major component of the serve between 10,000 and 500,000 and contributions to economic growth quantitative analysis examined services residents, and three serve more than by public libraries in the State of Texas. offered by most public libraries in Texas: 500,000 residents. Several of these libraries Both quantitative and qualitative benefits • circulation of books and other media; have significant capital programs underway, were included. Special attention was devoted to public libraries’ roles in assisting • access to public computers and Internet; and there are substantial differences among entrepreneurs, small businesses, and • educational programs; and the libraries regarding the proportion of purchasing that occurs locally. Nonetheless, employers in Texas. • reference services. all of the libraries generate substantial Methodology Economic estimates were derived for these positive returns-on-investment for their To determine the economic impacts of four services as well as for volunteers at communities and cities. public libraries and wireless usage. public libraries in Texas, a data-intensive Total economic benefits from Texas’ public research design was developed. Extensive A conservative approach was utilized libraries in 2011were approximately $2.407 data files from the Texas State Library that yields much greater certainty in the billion. With expenditures of $544.9 and Archives Commission served as estimated services values. The total value million, there was an ROI of $4.42 – for the primary basis for the quantitative of these six public library services was every dollar invested, there was $4.42 in estimates of economic benefits. TSLAC

6 Texas Library Journal • Spring 2013 data were used in conjunction with the The survey:(1 ) collected data about benefits from volunteers at public libraries input-output economic modeling software, the geographical location of library and wireless usage. expenditures (where money was spent) – IMPLAN. IMPLAN is commonly used by While the economic benefits of public information necessary for the IMPLAN economists and is widely accepted as one libraries as economic entities/organizations calculations; (2) compiled information of three software modeling programs for per se are important to capture, public about library directors’ views of particular impact analyses (the others are REMI and libraries’ economic impacts are far greater, activities and services for their business RIMS II). The IMPLAN software, as well even if they are sometimes extremely as the accompanying multipliers, social patrons; (3) sought data about wireless users and usage – data not currently available difficult to quantify. Case profiles were accounting matrices, and trade flows, allow developed about specific libraries’ activities for economic analysis of public libraries as statewide; and (4) solicited information about potentially unique and innovative involving business organizations, self- well as other related service industries. The employed individuals, small businesses, software used in this report is unique to the library activities that might be worthy of describing further in case profiles. and medium-sized businesses. Some economic activity in the State of Texas, and case profiles illustrate a public library’s 1 is the latest version available. Identified Another major component of the significant role for job seekers, job expenditures and jobs from public libraries, quantitative analysis examined major training, and workforce development. obtained from the TSLAC data files, served services offered by most public libraries Others highlight unique and innovative as the primary inputs to IMPLAN. in Texas: circulation of books and other approaches and ongoing collaborations media; public computers and Internet; with chambers of commerce. These Additional data and information were educational programs; and reference collected from a survey of all Texas public examples describe the widespread economic services. This analysis required combining impact of public libraries in all sizes and library directors as well as extensive in- statewide totals for each of the services person and telephone interviews and email types of locations (rural, suburban, and from the TSLAC data files, with values major metropolitan areas) in Texas. All of interaction with library directors. The for each service, e.g., each educational the libraries profiled were identified from survey of all public library directors in the program, a reference inquiry, or a book the survey of library directors. State of Texas was conducted in cooperation checked out. Prior studies of libraries with the Texas State Library and Archives in other jurisdictions were reviewed as A second set of profiles focuses on Commission, utilizing publicly available part of the valuation process. Economic economic impact estimates for a sample of information to contact directors. estimates also were generated for the individual libraries. Based on the statewide Meet Our Stars

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TEXAS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 7 survey of library directors, the responding other studies, although not necessarily the materials are presented in individual libraries were sorted into categories by valuations of the services. Often there is chapters, and specialized materials may the population size of their service areas. room for judgment about valuation, and be found in the appendices. To the extent Candidate libraries were selected from each when that has occurred, we have chosen possible, technical language has been of the five population categories (fewer the lower figures because of the uncertainty avoided to promote readability. than 10,000 residents, between 10,000 of the estimation process. By using the Chapter II provides key financial and 50,000, between 50,000 and 100,000, lower, more conservative values, this characteristics of Texas’ public libraries and between 100,000 and 500,000, and more analysis is able to report with certainty that then documents the direct and indirect than 500,000 residents) and asked if they public libraries in Texas provide at least this economic and employment impacts wished to participate in a process that much value to their communities. statewide of public library expenditures. would lead to an economic impact estimate Data Notes, Limitations, and Safeguards Chapter III describes the statewide survey for their library. To participate, each library of library directors and key findings. was informed they would need to provide This economic impact assessment should detailed operating and capital expenditure not be construed as an audit insofar as it Chapter IV details major library services, data by geography (city/county/ MSA/ was not prepared under generally accepted offers alternative approaches to valuation Texas as appropriate) that would be used as auditing principles and practices. The of these services, and estimates statewide inputs to the IMPLAN software. Economic research team did not examine financial values for each. estimates were generated for each of 14 or administrative records and does not Chapter V presents case profiles that libraries, representing a diverse group in all believe there was a need to do so. To a portray the full breadth of activities that parts of Texas. large extent, data used in this study were support businesses, business organizations, self-reported by library directors. As noted and job seekers as well as exemplify As part of the overall methodology, the above, the primary sources of information innovative and collaborative approaches research team conducted a review of were (1) data files from the Texas State in services. Profiles are presented for 40 prior return-on-investment studies of Library and Archives Commission that are libraries. public libraries during the past decade. compiled each year from an annual survey Chapter VI This review documented the range of characterizes the economic of all public libraries in the State of Texas; impacts and benefits for 14 libraries of methodologies used previously, showed (2) a survey of all public library directors different sizes. variation in library services’ values, and conducted by the research team in spring Chapter VII summarizes the economic provided a context for the quantitative 2012; and (3) field trip interviews, phone impacts from library expenditures and results from the IMPLAN modeling and interviews, and email correspondence with services and then compares the return- the overall ROI figure in Texas. Based on library directors and select library patrons.2 population size, comparability to Texas, on-investment to those in prior studies in scope of analysis, and methodological While the research team relied substantially states and cities. sophistication, six state studies and four on self-reported information from public Six different sets of appendices appear after cities were reviewed: Colorado, Florida, libraries, there is minimal likelihood that the main report: Indiana, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, data are systematically biased. First, the • Survey of Public Library Directors Wisconsin, Charlotte, Philadelphia, annual TSLAC surveys are conducted Seattle, and a consortium of municipalities and checked by experienced staff. Second, • Measuring Internet Usage in Southwestern Ohio. Summaries of each library directors are not incentivized to • Summaries of Prior State and City study appear in the appendices. inflate their library’s activities and results. Impact Studies Third, outlier data on the directors’ survey • Letter and Forms for Individual Library A number of approaches used in were re-confirmed as needed, and any Economic Impact Estimates prior studies were considered but not unreliable data will not affect the aggregated • Changes in Library Metrics from 2010 incorporated in this report. In one city, totals by an appreciable amount. Fourth, to 2011 researchers included a property value whenever interpretive decisions were • Bibliography and References component, arguing that residences necessary, the research team has consistently near libraries were more valuable than made conservative judgments. For all Chapter II. Key Financial equivalent residences elsewhere. In one these reasons and others as noted in the Statistics of Texas state study, several billion dollars in subsequent chapters, the economic impact “benefits” were included with researchers estimates should be viewed as minimums. Public Libraries arguing that these were costs that would If there are any errors in the estimates, they This chapter describes key characteristics have been incurred in the absence of are much more likely to be understatements of Texas’ 563 public libraries.3 In a libraries. Neither practice has been used in rather than overstatements. later section of this chapter, data and other studies, is methodologically sound, information are presented that assess or appropriate for Texas. In addition, Report Overview and Organization the economic contributions of library throughout this report, a conservative This report has been prepared for different spending on the State of Texas and on local approach has been utilized in valuing audiences in a “triage format;” that is to economies within Texas, based on library library services. For most services, we have say, key findings and recommendations services, expenditures, and employment in adapted approaches previously used in appear in the executive summary, detailed fiscal years 2010 and 2011.

8 Texas Library Journal • Spring 2013 Methodology expenditures were assigned as Nonresidential • County Building in the IMPLAN model. This study was conducted in cooperation • Library employee benefits with the Texas State Library and Local areas were analyzed with multi- • Wages and benefits Archives Commission, which provided regional input-output models for each • Size of collection operating and capital expenditure data county or metropolitan area of aggregated • Other operating expenses including for public libraries across Texas in their counties. The state was analyzed using the replacement furniture and equipment Annual Reports for Local Fiscal Years Texas model of IMPLAN. 4 • Expenditures on wages and benefits, 2010 and 2011. Economic impacts on collection, and miscellaneous Texas and local areas were estimated by The TSLAC data files for FY2010 and examining operating expenditures, capital FY2011 included more than 100 variables. • Indirect costs expenditures, employee salaries and These data and information are collected • Total operating expenses benefits, and construction expenditures. through an annual survey.7 The variables • Capital outlay Supplemental information for the used to evaluate economic impacts include: • Operating revenue from: economic impact analysis was obtained from a short survey of libraries.5 This study estimates the multiplicative impacts of library spending on other meet your favorite authors from industries in the economy using the input-output economic model, IMPLAN, which accounts for industry relationships Egmont USA! and economic trade flows. Other social Ilsa J. Bick and economic benefits, such as the Speaking: education, experience, or entertainment pm that occurs related to the books, Internet, Thursday, April 25, 1:00–1:50 or meeting space within the libraries, were Other Worlds: Science Fiction not directly quantified with IMPLAN and Fantasy for Teens when determining the overall economic Signing: Thursday, April 25, 2:00–3:00pm contribution.6 Survey respondents provided estimates of Christina Mandelski libraries’ local versus nonlocal employment, as well as purchases made outside their Speaking: pm service areas. With these data, commuting Friday, April 26, 12:00–1:50 patterns were adjusted to allow for the Texas Tea allocation of employee spending within Signing Booth #1147 the counties of residence. Spending was Friday, April 26, 2:00–2:30pm allocated to goods and services including housing, food, healthcare, entertainment, energy, clothes, and other items. Salary and Bree Despain benefits were entered as a labor income Speaking: change in the model. Saturday, April 27, 8:30–9:20am Purchases made outside a library’s service Curses Are Forever: area, referred to as “leakage,” were assessed YA Horror separately for non-labor operating Signing: Saturday, April 27, 9:30–10:30am expenditures. Given the complexity of spending on a variety of goods and services, operating expenditures for Jennifer Lynn Barnes leakage estimates were calculated by the Speaking: IMPLAN model. Operating expenditures Saturday, April 27, 10:00–10:50am were categorized as Other Information Paranormally Yours: YA Authors Services in the model. Summaries for Explore Teen Relationships the economic estimates of 14 individual Signing: Saturday, April 27, 9:00–10:00am libraries calculated leakage based on libraries’ estimates for local and nonlocal expenditures. (Please see Chapter VI.) Egmont USA Booth #1147 Capital outlays were identified by library All signings will take place in the author autographing area unless otherwise noted. by fiscal year. Estimated construction Please check convention program for session locations.

Egmont_TLA_Ad_Final.indd 1 2/25/13 12:27 PM TEXAS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 9 * City, cities, or library district the largest capital projects change * County or counties each year as funding and projects * School districts are approved. Table 2.2 shows the * Subtotal of local government income counties with the largest capital * Loan Star Libraries grant award projects in FY2011. * Other State funds Operating Expenditures * Federal Library Services & Technology Act funds (LSTA) Compared to the prior fiscal year, * Other federal funds operating expenditures grew 1.7% * Subtotal of federal operating income in FY2011, totaling $450.8 million. * Foundation & corporate grants These expenditures are comprised of * Other local sources labor costs, library collections (e.g., * Subtotal of other operating income books, periodicals, etc.), and other * Total income supplies and services purchased for library expenditures are less volatile than capital operations. Wages and benefits comprised expenditures. The counties with the largest • Capital revenue from: 67.6% of operating expenditures, operating expenditures in FY2011 are * City, cities, or library district demonstrating the largely labor-intensive shown in Table 2.3 (facing page). * County or counties nature of library operations. Print, Employment, Wages, and Benefits * School districts electronic, and other collection materials * Loan Star Libraries grant award comprised 12.5% of the operating Library full-time equivalent (FTE) * State funds budgets. Other operating expenditures and employment totaled 6,843 in FY2011, a * Federal Library Services & indirect costs totaled 18.9%. Operating 3.9% decline from the 7,122 in FY2010. Technology Act funds (LSTA) (County totals are shown in Table 2.4 on * Other federal funds facing page.) This number was converted * Foundation & corporate grants to a headcount based on micro-data from * Other local sources 14 libraries for the input-output model, * Total income yielding 7,556 employees. These workers earned $304.7 million in FY2011, an • Total full-time equivalents of paid increase of 0.7% in aggregate, of which library staff 24.9% was paid for employee benefits. • Local fiscal year beginning date Wages totaled $228.8 million. Head Library Data librarians’ salaries collectively represented Data were provided for each library’s fiscal 10.5% of total wages. year, which began October 1 for 67.5% of Collection Texas public libraries, January 1 for 23.8% Library collections are reported in three of libraries, with the other 8.7% having formats: print, electronic, and other (e.g., different start dates. The differences in local microforms and audiovisuals). Libraries fiscal years were inconsequential for the make ongoing purchases of collection economic impact study. items, and these ongoing purchases County amounted to $56.6 million in operating Based on the data, in 2011 ten counties expenditures in FY2011, down 1.5% accounted for 22.6% of the libraries, from FY2010. Most purchasing was and 184 counties (40.7%) each had 1-2 directed towards print materials (68.5%), libraries. (Please see Table 2.1 at right.) while 13.9% was for electronic materials, and 17.5% for other collection items. Capital Outlay Collection expenditures by county are Of the 563 libraries, 150 (26.6%) reported shown in Table 2.5. capital outlays totaling $94.1 million in FY2011 – a 16% increase from FY2010. Other Operating Expenditures These outlays are classified as major Other operating expenditures reference capital expenditures, which may include the non-labor, non-collection library building sites, new buildings, additions, or operations. These include supplies, software renovations. These outlays may also include licenses, networks, Internet, and contracted purchases of furniture, equipment, books, personnel (i.e., facilities maintenance, vehicles, computer systems, and other one- consultants, auditors, etc.). Other operating time extraordinary purchases noted in the expenditures totaled $85.1 million in reporting form.8 The list of counties with FY2011, an increase of 6.1% over FY2010.

10 Texas Library Journal • Spring 2013 Indirect Costs through taxes, fees, and grants. Given interest, and individual gifts and donations. Indirect costs refer to operating the nonprofit status of libraries, revenues The remaining $4 million was from expenditures paid by a local government largely match expenses. For the Texas foundation and corporate grants. library system, operating revenues totaled entity for the library. Examples include nearly $455.9 million, and capital revenues Capital Revenue janitorial services, grounds maintenance, totaled $74.5 million, for a total of $530.4 Local – Local funding comprised 83.5% of and utilities. Only 47 libraries (8.3%) million in FY2011 (up 0.2% from FY2010). total capital revenue in FY2011. Of that reported indirect costs. About half (46.8%) Libraries have various revenue conduits, $62.2 million in local funding, 94.3% of the $4.4 million in indirect expenditures ranging from federal, state, and local ($58.7 million), was from cities or library occurred in El Paso. sources, foundation and corporate grants, districts. County governments funded 5.7%. Library Revenue and fines and donations. While funding State – State funding for capital projects sources are varied, approximately $0.93 of totaled $333,037 in FY2011, representing Revenue for a private enterprise derives from every $1.00 in library revenue (operating 0.4% of total capital revenue. the sale of goods and services, in which value and capital) is from a local source, (i.e., was added to raw materials or intermediate from cities, counties, school districts, local Federal – Federal funding for capital inputs and resold with a margin. Public donations, etc.). projects totaled $2.2 million in FY2011, enterprises, like libraries, receive “income” representing 3% of total capital revenue. Operating Revenue Other – Other revenue sources funding Local – Operating revenue is totaled 13% of total capital revenue. Of almost all from local sources, the $9.7 million in other revenue funding, comprising nearly 95% of library $6.0 million came from fines, fees, interest, operating budgets in FY2011. Of and individual gifts and donations. the $432 million in local funding, The remaining $3.7 million was from 79.5% came from cities or library foundation and corporate grants. districts, and 20% from counties, with the remaining 0.5% from Statewide Economic Impacts from school districts. Library Expenditures State – State funds represented Library expenditures represent the 1.2% of library operating revenue employment of individuals in local in FY2011, accounting for not communities and purchases of goods and quite $5.7 million in funding, services, primarily from private industry mostly through Loan Star vendors. The locale of these purchases Libraries grant awards. (The 82nd varies by library, with the composition of Texas Legislature eliminated this the local economy often dictating what may grant program.) or may not be sourced locally. Companies Federal – Federal revenue was supplying products to libraries, in turn, reported by only 23 libraries employ and purchase from other companies, totaling slightly more than $2 thus creating a multiplier effect. To calculate million. the multiplier effects and overall economic impacts, the research team used the input- Other – Other revenue sources output economic modeling tool IMPLAN. funded 3.6% of total operating The IMPLAN software incorporates data revenue. Of the $16.1 million (expenditures, jobs, etc.) and publicly in other revenue funding, $12.1 available secondary data on labor, wages, million came from fines, fees, and output. The main input data were (1) The $544.9 million in direct library operating and capital expenditures in FY2011 ($450.8 million in operating expenditures and $94.1 million in capital expenditures as described earlier in this chapter); and (2) A total of 7,556 employees (6,843 full- time equivalent (FTE)). This direct spending in

TEXAS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 11 Definitions Leakage: Refers to spending that occurs supported employment of an additional outside the region of study. 4,493 workers in Texas. Gross Domestic Product (GDP): A measure of economic activity, GDP is the Direct Impact: The measured economic Overall, based on the $544.9 million total value added by resident producers of activity (expenditures, employment, in expenditures, economic benefits as final goods and services. wages) recorded by the library. calculated by IMPLAN were $1.043 Gross Output (Output): The total value of Indirect Impact: Captures the additional billion, for an ROI of 1.91 – for every production is gross output. Unlike GDP, activity related to the library’s supply dollar expended, there is $1.91 in local gross output includes intermediate goods chain based on the local composition of economic activity. and services. the economy. Chapter VII. Summary of Value Added: The contribution of an Induced Impact: Captures the impact of Quantifiable Economic Impacts industry or region to total GDP, value household spending driven off salaries added equals gross output, net of earned by library employees, as well as Public libraries in the State of Texas intermediate input costs. indirect employees. generate significant economic impacts. In 2011 more than 12,000 jobs in Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA): Multiplier Effect: Includes the direct, Texas were dependent on public library Integrated social and economic areas indirect, and induced impacts related to expenditures. When analyzed as business of one or more counties and with the library to demonstrate the rippling and organizational entities, public libraries population of 50,000 or more. effect of economic activity related to produced $1.043 billion in local economic expenditures, employment, and wages. activity. In addition, the total value of six primary public library services was the State of Texas multiplies through other 2,983 employees. Table 2.8 shows that conservatively estimated at $1.364 billion.47 industries in the supply chain, ranging from libraries’ capital expenditures in FY2011 Total economic benefits from Texas public real estate and wholesale trade, to food led to approximately $194 million in total libraries in 2011were approximately $2.407 services and health care. IMPLAN captures economic activity and 1,511 additional billion. this economic activity by using economic employees hired. Table 2.9 shows the Spending by public libraries in 2011 multipliers, social accounting matrices, and combined effects: total economic activity trade flow data unique to the State of Texas. that surpasses $1.04 billion and total totaled $544.9 million: $450.8 million in The model then produced results expressed employment of 12,049. operating expenditures and $94.1 million in capital expenditures. in terms of direct, indirect, and induced These additional economic benefits were impacts on output, employment, and wages. derived from the upstream economic Overall, with economic benefits of $2.407 As shown in Table 2.7 the operating linkages for library operations and billion and expenditures of $544.9 million, expenditures in FY2011 led to construction, as well as from household there was an ROI of $4.42 – for every dollar, approximately $850 million in total spending on goods and services in the there was $4.42 in local economic activity. economic activity in the State of Texas. community. In other words, based Table 7.1 shows the financial benefit ratio And libraries’ operating expenditures on libraries’ operating and capital (return on investment) for prior studies led to the employment of an additional expenditures, spending by vendors of select states and cities. Comparisons of these ratios across different jurisdictions must be conducted with caution and, in some instances, may be inappropriate due to different types of services and other localized conditions. Nonetheless, it often proves useful to determine more generally if the results are in line with other analyses. The two Texas ratios, one for all libraries and a second for the sample of 14 of individual libraries, are in line with the ratios evident in other cities and states. Given the conservative approaches used in this analysis and the fact that some library services could not be included due to intractable problems with data availability or measurement, the Texas ratios are rather impressive. In addition to measuring the economic benefits of public libraries, this research: • Documented numerous, specific examples in which libraries have

12 Texas Library Journal • Spring 2013 Endnotes pls/2010/download.html. The second (numbering follows footnotes cited in the full report) file is pls11download.xlsx and is available 1 IMPLAN utilizes a 440 industry matrix, at: https://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/pubs/ allowing for detailed industry analysis. For pls/2011/download.html. this report, such detail was unnecessary 5 The survey of all library directors is and results were described in terms of described further in chapter III, and direct, indirect, and induced impacts on the survey instrument is contained in output, employment, and wages. More Appendix A. details, including a table of definitions, are 6 Please note that library services were provided in Chapter II of this report. incorporated into the overall economic 2 Interviews with library directors and contribution, however. See chapter IV for select library patrons were conducted the main discussion, description of the with the promise that their anonymity methodologies used, and the economic would be honored and their comments estimates that were derived. reported only en masse, unless permission 7 The report form and variable descriptions was specifically requested and granted. may be found at https://www.tsl.state. All responses and comments by library tx.us/sites/default/files/public/tslac/ld/ directors in response to survey questions pubs/arsma/2011ARWorksheet.pdf. were treated as confidential. 8 The report form and variable descriptions 3 Four of the 563 reporting libraries may be found at: https://www.tsl.state. that provided data for the TSLAC tx.us/sites/default/files/public/tslac/ld/ 2011 Annual Report are technically pubs/arsma/2011ARWorksheet.pdf. not considered public libraries. In the 47 Circulation: $934,502,271; Computer following tables the totals are for all terminals/Internet: $317,285,503; enabled business organizations, reporting libraries. businesses, and self-employed Reference Services: $34,511,683; individuals to improve their economic 4 Two main data files were used. The first Programs: $28,908,942; Volunteers: activities; file is pls10download.xlsx and is available $26,027,930; Wireless: $22,551,992. at: https://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/pubs/ Sum: $1,363,788,321. J • Described libraries’ activities that assist individuals to obtain employment; and • Identified educational and occupational programs libraries have provided to enhance their patrons’ quality of life and meet the information, data, and social needs of eBooks on Demand for K-12 Libraries their communities and regions. The easy and affordable way to add thousands of titles to your collection. The impact Texas public libraries have is still underestimated. Public libraries serve their communities by making information and learning readily accessible to any individuals who choose to enter a library’s doors or, in A Sweet Deal for Your School. Booth #2406 Visit. Learn. Share. recent years, use a library’s online portal. Get unlimited online access to over 3,800 ™ The individuals who use the libraries eBook titles from today’s best authors Get FREE Brain Hive directly benefit by gaining knowledge and and publishers. Bucks and enter for ideas and those who choose not to use their your chance to Pay only for what gets “clicked out” — ® local public library benefit by being part of win an iPad mini! just $1 per eBook checkout! Then share the buzz a more educated community. Substantial Free membership, no commitments with your librarian research has concluded that economic and principal. growth and leadership is highly correlated On-demand eBooks with option to buy with highly educated communities. Public Integrated Accelerated Reader™ Quizzes for Renaissance Place libraries offer every person an opportunity ™ to improve their education and every Real Time customers business an opportunity to improve Try it free at their productivity. Public libraries are an brainhive.com/TLA Click it out. overlooked factor in economic leadership among states.

TEXAS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 13 Executive Summary: by Julie Todaro Promoting Our Value, Proving Our Worth Toolkit

Editor’s Note: TLA Public Relations and Marketing why funds are spent. All special interest Do we measure what we do? Committee Chair Julie Todaro has completed groups – and the library community is no Systematically? Promoting Our Value, Proving Our Worth Toolkit: exception – must struggle to select that Do we evaluate enough? Or at all? Do A Realistic, Concrete Approach. This toolkit offers perfect piece of data, that perfect statistic, we have evidence of impact? a realistic perspective for examining and forming or that perfect argument that reaches the Do we articulate our evaluative results successful advocacy strategies and proven, doable most important decision maker who will so that others understand? Do we methods for achieving positive results. provide the needed support. disseminate them appropriately? From reviewing, shaping, and selecting the Once we set aside the “because” statements If you aren’t 100%, do you know your information you need to discovering the secrets (because the majority of them don’t work (partial and complete) “fail points”? for persuading others, the toolkit provides library anymore), we have to select new terms, Are you using public relations and supporters with a workable framework that can be processes, data, and formulae that illustrate marketing processes and techniques? created step-by-step. - to that specific person – who we are, Branding? Do you know your The publication also provides an extensive list what we do, and why they should fund us. audience? Your “customer”? Their of resources. To download the full toolkit, go We start by asking Today’s Questions … customer? Their needs and preferences? to: http://www.txla.org/sites/tla/files/PR/PR%20 Why aren’t they funding the library? How do we begin demonstrating our value? Toolkit%202013.pdf. Why don’t they understand us? Start by creating a culture of measurement Why don’t they value what we do? and assessment into the organization. Little Let’s move beyond the can be achieved without this foundation. past by asking the hard How do we prove our worth? questions and finding Should we have to identify our strengths • Articulate the importance, role, and answers that work today. every year? Or every budget cycle? Or value of measurement, evaluation, and every legislative session? assessment in your organizational/ “Why should libraries be funded?” Today’s Answers … institutional documents. Yesterday’s Answers • Build an assessment model to mirror the Terms…processes…formula...data… governing organization’s measurement, Because we are the heart of the What are the terms we evaluation, and assessment framework. institution… need now? Make sure it is consistent throughout Because we are the fabric of the your institution and all your activities. community… Ensure that it meets all of your reporting Because “for the people” is the and decision-making needs. cornerstone of our democracy… • Identify all employees’ roles and Because you’ve already paid for it… responsibilities in assessment of your Because pooling resources to support library’s functions, programs, and everyone is good business… services. Because we said so… • Design opportunities for assessment Because everyone just knows we are throughout the organization. Be sure to important Why can’t we get identify short-term, long-term, and pilot None of these reasons work on the majority the right answers to today’s opportunities. questions? A checklist for self-evaluation. of decision makers anymore. Why not? • Encourage program assessment as well Whether you’re addressing leaders in your Are we STILL more passive and reactive as one-time event/activity outcomes community, educational institution, or than proactive and assertive? measurement. company, there always seems to be some Are our efforts not enough? • Build in assessment learning throughout priority outranking you. With fewer dollars Are our strategies not business strategies? training and professional development. to go around, every expenditure must be Do we match what we have to offer • Identify and nurture assessment as an justified. The days of the “fund us because based on what our public and leaders expertise/employee focus. we are noble” rationale are long gone. need? Do we support our governing Create assessment teams and team It’s not that the public or even decision structures’ goals, products, and leaders. makers don’t appreciate us; today’s tight decision making functions? Create incentives for assessment in fiscal environment is a simple byproduct of Do we “produce”? Do we have results? general as well as rewards for assessing many critical areas and issues that require Do we work under the radar? Or are we and correcting identified problems/ funding and increased scrutiny in how and visible and “at the table”? data.

14 Texas Library Journal • Spring 2013 Figure Out What You Have Measurements and Assessments • Why is your information valuable to the and What You Need “Often Taken” organization? • Why does what you do or what you What is the cost of programs and services? Draft a list of what you already provide save money? What is the cost of programs and services measure or count and assess. • Why does what you do save clients per constituent or use money? Improve their (interactions with For many years libraries have gathered How many items are used in-house? numbers. For the last 30 years, libraries the organization, products received from What are you outputs? have struggled with a wide variety of types the company, quality of life)? What is the number and type of database of measurement and assessment. Libraries • Why do you need the same level of uses? HAVE been measuring and they HAVE funding? What is the attendance (in person/ been assessing. • Why do you need more funding? virtually) at programs? • Why do you need new money (in areas Typical Measurements What are your cataloged resources (media, not designated before)? Web, print, etc.); timelines, etc.? How many items are in the library/ • Why do you want to move money? What are your spacing needs (i.e., space per available through the library? • Why do we need to buy online constituent, space use per constituent, resources? Isn’t there just as good How many people check out books? space per department, resource area)? information on the web for free? How many people walk through an actual What are your counts (E-entry/access/door • How did you arrive at the budget figures and now virtual door? counts, page counts)? in your request? How much is spent on resources? What are you trying to convince • Why did you choose x over y? How many programs they offer? decision makers of? How many people come to programs? To learn how to address these questions, If the very existence of the library is an visit the TLA website and open the online How many people use a service reference – open question, you’ll need to have ready toolkit. J in person and virtual? and compelling answers to these questions. What is your square footage? • Why should you exist? What are your locations – number of, Julie Todaro is dean of library services • How does what you provide matter to at Austin Community College and variety, etc.? the people you serve? chair of TLA’s PR and Marketing Committee.

TEXAS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 15 the beginning of this year. Additionally, Academic Libraries the dynamic nature of the media means that content, as well as its availability can change on a daily, and sometimes hourly, Are Moving to the Mobile Web basis. One university had a completely dysfunctional app full of missing or broken accessible on small devices. Accessible links one week but was fully functional – Or Are They? from personal computers as well as mobile the next. What is presented here is based devices, mobile websites may or may not on what was available to the authors the by Catharine Bomhold have an available app. Apps, on the other last week of January and the first week and Callie Wiygul hand, provide an interface through which of February, 2013. It is expected that With the dramatic increase in smart phone users access content-specific information the findings presented here may change usage by the millennial generation, the that has been edited for mobile use. They similarly by the time this publication academic library literature is full of calls to can also provide visual and spatial unity becomes available. produce smart phone applications, or apps, to interrelated information and provide in order to increase accessibility to services a sense of union for institutions with Summary of findings by their patrons. The most recognizable multiple divisions. Library hours mobile interface, apps are site-specific In order to evaluate the state of library Most libraries found some place to software applications that allow users to services available on the mobile Web, post their current hours with holiday access information in discrete portions we surveyed the library functions in the exceptions as either a grid or text format on smart phones. While the term has its mobile apps of 14 universities in the in a prominent place. A few were difficult origins in personal computing, in recent mid-plains and southwestern region of to access but were provided. Surprisingly, years it has become commonly used to the United States. All of the schools are not all did; two libraries did not make refer to small-scope software developed classified by the Carnegie Foundation their hours available at all. Notably, explicitly for mobile devices. Since 2006 as RU/VH (universities with very heavy the University of Utah Marriot Library the Horizon Report, an annual survey of research activity).3 Of these universities, also had the hours for the current day emerging technologies in higher education, three did not have mobile apps at all, prominently displayed on a horizontal has included mobile computing through and one did not have access to the library banner making the information readily smart phones as an upcoming tool for post- on the university app. To determine the available to the user. secondary education.1 Furthermore, the extent to which academic libraries at heavy Library contact information or directory professional literature is rife with discussion research universities are delivering apps to on the importance and easy production All but two libraries provided staff contact their increasingly mobile clientele, library information. Directories were most often of apps for attracting and keeping mobile services on the apps of the 10 remaining library patrons.2 In order to determine the listed alphabetically by last name or subject universities were examined on a variety of specialty. A few were searchable. The current state of academic library mobile points to identify what was available and its services, a survey of app offerings was University of Arizona library staff directory overall usefulness in a mobile environment. includes photos and multiple points of carried out in January of 2013. The apps A total of 10 points of library service were surveyed to see what types of services access (office number/phone/email) for were examined in each app: library hours; each person. were offered, if they were functional in a library contact information; directions mobile setting, and to determine if there to the library or floor maps; computer Directions to the library &/or floor maps was any commonality or predictability availability; ask-a-librarian; OPAC access; The availability of maps on the mobile apps among the libraries that had apps. access to personal accounts; subject guides; varied between libraries. While some linked Does mobile matter? subscription database access; and the to external websites such as GoogleMaps, availability of links to the library’s social others provided campus maps only. The With the whole Internet available at the media. All the apps had some of these University of Utah Marriot Library had a tap of the finger on a smart phone, does elements, but only a handful offered them campus map with a few building names it matter if a university or its library has a all. Furthermore, all apps had varying and no road names, limiting its usefulness specific app? While a mobile device may degrees of success, in this case meaning for off-campus patrons. The presence of be able to connect to any website, many usefulness, in the services offered. Below is library floor maps was similarly varied. functions may not work, be difficult to a summary of the findings. Five apps had floor maps with differing access, or impossible to view if they have A caveat on mobile computing levels of detail, and extensive information not been edited for mobile use. Apps (including virtual tours) was available at themselves are not necessary equipment This survey was originally completed in Arizona State University (ASU) Libraries. as long as the producer invests the time to the fall of 2012 as part of a nation-wide create a mobile website. Denoted by the survey of university apps. However, the Computer availability leading “m.” in the URL, mobile websites mobile industry is still developing rapidly, Two apps, ASU Libraries and the are edited for content and in design in and the number and content of available University of Nebraska Libraries, provided order to load quickly and be visually university apps changed considerably by

16 Texas Library Journal • Spring 2013 real-time information on open computers university units or the library staff and their Findings by library for student use. users. This idea is discussed further in the UNIVERSITY OF UTAH (J. WILLARD concluding comments. Ask-a-Librarian MARRIOT LIBRARY) All of the libraries had some sort of mobile Conclusion Hours: Yes, with calendars noting holiday access to library staff, although the degree We initially believed that we would find hours. Also, a horizontal banner to which this was useful or successful varied patterns between the libraries and the throughout the site lists the hours for widely. Email forms were the most popular functions or services that were offered. the current day. function, offered by seven of the libraries. Hours, maps, and contact information are Contact and/or Directory: Yes The others offered various combinations of generally stable information that can be Directions/Maps: Detailed floor maps, chat, email, text, or instant messaging. Two formatted and placed online with relative plus a campus map with some building only provided a phone number to call. ease and little upkeep. Other functions, names but no road names. Does not such as catalog and article searching are have directions to the library. OPAC access high maintenance items that only a few Computer Availability: No With one exception, access to the library advanced institutions would offer. What Ask a Librarian: Email form catalog was universal. What varied was the we found instead was an eclectic mix of Catalog Access: Yes usability of the results. Catalog results were functions and services that were offered Library Account Access: Yes frequently not optimized for mobile use with varying success. There was no Subject Guides: Yes, including links to and were either too dense to read easily or apparent predictability among libraries and outside sources. did not fit the screen, forcing the user to in what was offered. Three libraries were Database Access: Extensive. Databases are scroll from side to side or up and down to found to be very good in both the number listed alphabetically, with descriptions see them. One library catalog was optimized of services offered and in the execution of and maximum number of users. for mobile use but did not provide call mobile functions while the others varied in Social Media Links: No numbers with the search results. their success with each function. Remarks: The library section of the Library account access These results indicate that in most instances university app has links to the full site at these academic libraries are not assuming, the bottom of every page. Navigation is not Access to library user accounts was not or perhaps given, responsibility for their uniform. From any catalog page, clicking universal but divided between the libraries own mobile Web. The impression is that on the library name does not take the user that provided mobile catalog access. Five technical units create university apps back to the library home, but back to the libraries allowed users to access their library without input from library staff or testing catalog start page. The back button returns accounts with the app, four did not, and the product with users, creating a hodge- to the university links page and you have the one library that did not provide mobile podge of services with mixed effectiveness. to start over from the beginning. Touching access to the OPAC did not have access to The reason for this result is likely two-fold. the library name on the top banner will their user accounts either. The first is the expediency with which return you to the library start page, but this Subject guides university administrations want to have is not made clear to the user, and does not a mobile presence. University computing work in the library catalog. The app was Four libraries had access to subject units are tasked with creating apps without created with U360mobile, a customizable guides on the app, but like OPACs, the having the time or expertise to consider app platform designed specifically for actual usability was limited. Some were content. Second, there is likely a fiscal universities. incomplete and lacked information; others element to these results. While apps were not mobile ready once the user got are relatively simple and inexpensive to ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY past the first page, limiting the utility of create, budget constraints on libraries may (ASU LIBRARIES) the information. limit their ability to provide personnel Hours: Yes, for each of seven libraries, to consult with designers on functional including holidays. Subscription database access issues. One library staff member whom we Contact and/or Directory: Yes, Seven of the libraries provided access to contacted through mobile chat admitted alphabetical list. Not searchable. subscription databases through the app. that staff had not been trained on the Directions/Maps: Yes. A list of libraries These were either links to proprietary mobile services, and she was unclear on includes floor maps, virtual tours, apps from JSTOR, EBSCO, and the like, how the app was organized. Another, when phone, and mailing and physical or simply access to the non-optimized asked if library accounts were accessible addresses for each. Links to Google Web link. through the mobile Web, referred us to maps for directions are available. the full unedited website through Safari, Computer Availability: Yes. A spread Library social media link indicating that they were unclear of the sheet of libraries includes real-time The most perplexing find was that while difference between optimized mobile apps updates of open terminals, plus every university library included in this and the full Web. Ultimately, the result maps that show users where the open survey hosts a Facebook page, only three is that university libraries have many terminals are. Links to PDF building of the 10 had a link to that page on improvements to make before their apps maps are also available on this page. their mobile app. This finding illustrated will be ubiquitous among their students. Ask a Librarian: Chat or email, plus the apparent disconnect either between phone links.

TEXAS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 17 Catalog Access: Yes Database Access: Yes Database Access: Yes, but individually, Library Account Access: No Social Media Links: No through vendor software products. Subject Guides: Yes; Libguides Remarks: The library’s mobile website Social Media Links: Facebook Database Access: Yes, by journal title only. is clearly a work in progress. At first try Remarks: Mobile access includes access Social Media Links: Library Channel has the link to the libraries provided only a to group study room reservations with announcements, news, and information “Page Not Found” warning, although maps of available rooms. Chat function from ASU libraries. library services were accessible through was available, but it was not fitted for a Remarks: An impressive array of detailed a small drop down menu. This changed mobile screen so that the text could not information is combined with extensive after some time. The main page has a be read on the screen. combined catalog and database searching bold menu of services, and access through COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY options. A horizontal banner titled those is adequate. The dropdown menu is Hours: No “Library” with a back arrow does not go still available and provides access to some Contact and/or Directory: No back to the library main page, but the services (like the computer availability Directions/Maps: No university page. An ASU Libraries banner map) that are either not optimized for Computer Availability: No does return to the library main page, but it mobile or that cannot be accessed from the Ask a Librarian: Email only is not present everywhere in the library site. library start page. Navigation through these Catalog Access: Yes secondary pages can be jumpy and lack a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA Library Account Access: Yes smooth transition. Hours: Yes Subject Guides: No Contact and/or Directory: Yes UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS (AUSTIN) Database Access: No Alphabetical, not searchable, but each LIBRARIES Social Media Links: No listing contains staff photo and multiple Hours: Yes, for each library, and includes Remarks: Few services are available, but points of contact. date specific holiday hours. those that are available are well formatted Directions/Maps: Yes Contact and/or Directory: Yes, by subject for mobile access. Many print searches were Computer Availability: Not accessible off specialty. met with a “network timeout” response in campus Directions/Maps: Campus address the library catalog. Ask a Librarian: Chat/email/phone only, with links to Google Maps for options directions, and includes recommended UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA Catalog Access: Yes parking lots or garages. LIBRARIES Library Account Access: No Computer Availability: No Hours: Yes Subject Guides: No Ask a Librarian: Yes. Email, chat, or IM. Contact and/or Directory: No Database Access: Yes, includes instructions Catalog Access: Yes, but search results are Directions/Maps: No on how to get access to subscription not formatted for mobile. Computer Availability: No databases from off campus. Library Account Access: No Ask a Librarian: No Social Media Links: No Subject Guides: No Catalog Access: Yes, see remarks below Remarks: The app is very nicely optimized Database Access: Yes Library Account Access: No for mobile access. There is a “Return Social Media Links: No Subject Guides: No to Home Page” option on each page Remarks: Overall, the presentation is very Database Access: No that helps to avoid confusion with the clean and optimized for mobile use very Social Media Links: No university start page. It also allows users to well. This is countered by the lack of access Remarks: The university app front page reserve a study room remotely, but users to many functions (subject guides, account is graphically impressive, but most library must sign in with their university ID to access) and mobile formatted search functions link to the full website. The access it. functions that return results which are not library catalog is searchable, but the results UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA formatted for mobile use. do not provide a call number for locating LIBRARIES TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY (EVANS items. Hours: Yes. It allows you to scroll to LIBRARY AND ANNEX) UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO specific days, but it is not available in a Hours: Yes Hours: Yes grid calendar format. Contact and/or Directory: Yes Contact and/or Directory: No Contact and/or Directory: No Directions/Maps: Yes. Interactive campus Directions/Maps: Yes. See remarks. Directions/Maps: Yes. The map also maps are available. Computer Availability: No denotes the nearest accessible parking to Computer Availability: No Ask a Librarian: Phone only. See remarks. each library. Ask a Librarian: Email or text. See Catalog Access: Yes. See remarks. Computer Availability: Yes comment on chat function below. Library Account Access: Yes Ask a Librarian: Text, chat, and email. Catalog Access: No Subject Guides: No Catalog Access: Yes, but results are not Library Account Access: No Database Access: No formatted for mobile. Subject Guides: Yes, but links to external Social Media Links: Facebook Library Account Access: Yes URL Subject Guides: LibGuides

18 Texas Library Journal • Spring 2013 Remarks: The UNM mobile app is named Catalog Access: Yes References LoboMobile and provides a library link Library Account Access: Yes Carlucci, L. 2010. Gone mobile? Library on the front page. This link contains little Subject Guides: No Journal 135, no. 17:30-34. information from or about the UNM Database Access: Yes, but not optimized libraries. Catalog searching is through Social Media Links: Facebook, Twitter, Connolly, M., Cosgrave, T., & Krkoska, LIBROS, the state-wide consortium Flicker, YouTube B. 2011. Mobilizing the library’s web catalog, with the option to search only presence and services: a student-library UNM libraries. A mobile back-door to Remarks: The content is nicely presented, collaboration to create the library’s mobile more UNM library information was found but many basic functions are missing. site and iPhone application. The Reference by searching LIBROS for an item in a The app was created with U360mobile, Librarian 52, no. 1-2:27-35. specific library, then clicking on “library a customizable app platform designed Cummings, J., A. Merrill, and S. Borrelli. information” on the results page. This specifically for universities. 2009. The use of handheld mobile provided physical address information and devices: their impact and implications for a link to the library website. The UNM library services. Library Hi Tech 28, no. University Libraries page there had a Endnotes 1:22. variety of mobile-optimized links to subject 1 The Horizon report is published Farkas, M. 2010. A library in your pocket. guides, library hours, and subscription annually by the New Media American Libraries 41, no. 6:38-38. database access. Chat hours are listed, but Consortium. Digital copies can be found at www.educause.edu/library. Krishnan, Y. 2011. Libraries and the a chat function is not available. mobile revolution. Computers in Libraries UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS 2 See References for a list of sources. 31, no. 3:6-40. Hours: Yes 3 “Classification Description,” Carnegie Little, G. 2011. Keeping moving: smart Contact and/or Directory: No Foundation for the Advancement of phone and mobile technologies in the Directions/Maps: No Teaching, accessed February 8, 2013, academic library. The Journal of Academic Computer Availability: No http://classifications.carnegiefoundation. Librarianship 37, no. 3:267-269. Ask a Librarian: Text, email, IM org/descriptions/basic.php. Peters, T. 2011. Left to their own devices: the future of reference services Library University Access on personal, portable information, App Catharine Bomhold is University and Library in App communication, and entertainment an assistant professor devices. The Reference Librarian 52, no. Arizona State University (ASU Libraries) Yes Yes and Callie Wiygul is 1-2:88. Colorado State University Yes Yes a graduate student. Ryan, B. 2011. Developing library websites North Dakota State University (Fargo) No n/a Both are at the Montana State University No n/a optimized for mobile devices. The School of Library and Texas A & M University (Evans Library and Annex) Yes Yes Reference Librarian 52, no. 1-2:128-135. University of Arizona Yes Yes Information Science University of Colorado at Boulder No n/a at the University of Starkweather, W., & Stowers, E. 2009. University of Houston Yes No Smartphones: a potential discovery tool. Southern Mississippi. University of Kansas Yes Yes Information Technology & Libraries 28, no. University of Nebraska Libraries Yes Yes 4:187-188. University of New Mexico Yes Yes University of Oklahoma Libraries Yes Yes Thomas, L. 2012. Mobile libraries 2012. University of Texas (Austin) Libraries Yes Yes Library Journal 137, no. 2:26-28. J University of Utah (J. Willard Marriot Library) Yes Yes

Figure 1. Carnegie RU/VH universities used in the study and mobile app status.

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TEXAS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 19 Textbooks Too Expensive For Students? The Library Can Help Connect Poetry and the TEKS & STAAR A Program for the Long-Term Lending of Textbooks in Your Academic Library

by Richard McKay taking the student to the campus bookstore with fewer people helped, but as long as with The Poetry Friday Anthology and buying the textbooks for the student. the library’s program is an improvement t’s no secret to any academic librarian over an existing “case-by-case” approach, that textbook prices have been rising The problem with this response is that it solves the problem only for the student the campus will experience the program as Take Take 5! 5! Isteadily for years. A widely-cited statistic a success. from a 2005 Government Accountability willing and able to push forward to top The Library Office report shows college textbook prices administrators, who then respond positively. Although the program can be run by Show students your public Sara Holbrook Everyone else lacking a textbook must find one person, it is complex and, in some library 1. Arrange card a and quick have visit applications to the available library or bring a pile, bin, or cart of increasing at an average of 6% per year in library books on a variety of topics. the 20-year period preceding the report.1 some other way to get their books, take instances, a challenge. Meeting this by their chances without them, or drop the worthy challenge will make the person . Then read this poem Another study shows textbook prices rising aloud; slow down to enunciate invite students each item in lines 5-­‐16. to read the last dramatically since as long ago as 1915, course. The idea behind the textbook loan running it a stronger librarian, as its Take the walk program under review in this article is to mastery implies several important library three lines in unison even after accounting for an accompanying 2. Read the poem aloud again and to the open door, take the president’s office out of the picture, competencies – circulation, customer rise in the cost of living, so that the average What . is your favorite book (so you’ve read far)? this is where you cost of textbooks at the online bookseller and let the library help more students. service, and marketing, The person running Jind out more The library’s takeover of the program also Amazon in 2012 is $133.2 Not only are the program will also get good at using a 3. For discussion: about the stars, textbooks expensive to begin with; their means that the library buys the textbooks P-card, the school-issued credit card that Ask students: What are the words that rhyme? oceans, quakes, when it doesn’t already own them and keeps rising cost relative to other things tends, allows its users to buy books quickly in the door/more; 4. Help students quakes/snakes; Jind the beans/machines; rhyming pairs of “words that bats/cats; sound alike.” book/look/ dragons, cars, them to lend again, instead of the student (These include: over time, to push textbook ownership into campus bookstore, and to skip paying sales cook; poem/home; about/out. cheetahs, snakes, keeping them. Also, when the library runs the category of an unreachable necessity tax. The program administrator will also unicorns, and the program, campus administration can ) Read the more, poem snakes, aloud again, but for a large pool of students. This cost- become fluent in Microsoft Outlook or jumping beans, be certain that a service center with a long whatever communication system is in place machines, pause before cats, the look, second home, out word in each rhyming pair and wait for the horses, bugs, prohibitive aspect of textbook usage may students to chime in with the correct response ( history of buying and accessioning books, to work with students, track interest, and and time machines. lead to academic difficulties. “Poems are Out ). of this World!” by Charles Ghigna and tracking their loan status, will handle meet demand. From killer whales, Assuming that easy access to the text is the job as part of normal business. Please Bury Me in the If the program is run with any enthusiasm Library5. Look for and free tail bats, a requirement for success, not having One of the more consistent objections that at all it will offer significant rewards to the (Kindergarten, Week 29) or a poem from to hammer heads the book threatens a student’s academic and kitty cats, librarians raise to a long-term textbook staff responsible. It also helps students and The Poetry by J. Friday Patrick Anthology Lewis. standing. Simply borrowing a copy of loan program is what they see as its generates valuable word-of-mouth publicity the library has got a book. the text from a classmate isn’t always a from , copyright © 2012 Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong burdensome cost. To be sure, the books for the library. Because the program is Come on in, good response to the problem, either. will still be expensive no matter who buys administered by a library staffer, it removes take a look. It complicates the situation further that them. Remember, though, that as part of an important obstacle from the path of A poem for each week for each grade level (K-8) Learn how to cook many of these students also face personal its service mandate each year, the library a vulnerable student. After a few years of or write a poem. obligations and scheduling demands will always spend a certain amount of successful operation, the program stands to Read it here that make for a “hit-or-miss” chance of Take 5 connections to TEKS skills for every poem money out of hand on books. Whatever become one of the most beneficial services or take it home. successfully using a friend’s copy. Students portion of this money that is spent on that the library can offer its patrons. It What do you want to learn about? also face the same condition at the campus Poems by Naomi Shihab Nye, Jack Prelutsky, textbooks will guarantee a high value for will certainly be so in the estimation of It’s free! library’s reserve desk. Simply put, students Joyce Sidman, J. Patrick Lewis, Marilyn Nelson, the money spent. If you doubt this, pay a the program’s users and the school’s upper It’s here! need guaranteed access to their textbooks Nikki Grimes, Linda Sue Park, Kathi Appelt, visit to your own reserve area and look at administration. Check it out! and may be confronted with an incentive Guadalupe Garcia McCall and 70 more the spines and pages of the textbooks that to drop the course if they don’t get it. If the are already there. You won’t have to look Richard McKay is library director at student still decides to stay in class without copyright © 2012 Sara Holbrook long for at least one that has been thumbed the needed texts, he or she must overcome San Jacinto College South Campus. and photocopied until parts of it seem * a considerable obstacle to success that, in a good for little more than garden mulch. worst case, can slow, and even contribute to K-5 Edition Then go to the circulating book stacks Notes Grades 6–8 Edition ending, their progress towards transfer or * in the same subject area as the well-used 1) U.S. Government Accountability Office.

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Take Take 5! 5! The Library Show students your public Sara Holbrook library 1. Arrange card a and quick have visit applications to the available library or bring a pile, bin, or cart of library books on a variety of topics. by . Then read this poem aloud; slow down to enunciate each item in lines 5-­‐16. invite students to read the last Take the walk three lines in unison 2. Read the poem aloud again and to the open door, What . is your favorite book (so you’ve read far)? this is where you Jind out more 3. For discussion: about the stars, Ask students: What are the words that rhyme? oceans, quakes, door/more; 4. Help students quakes/snakes; Jind the beans/machines; rhyming pairs of “words that bats/cats; sound alike.” book/look/ dragons, cars, cook; poem/home; about/out. (These include: cheetahs, snakes, unicorns, and ) Read the more, poem snakes, aloud again, but jumping beans, machines, pause before cats, the look, second home, out word in each rhyming pair and wait for the horses, bugs, students to chime in with the correct response ( and time machines. “Poems are Out ). of this World!” by Charles Ghigna From killer whales, Please Bury Me in the Library5. Look for and free tail bats, (Kindergarten, Week 29) or a poem from to hammer heads The Poetry by J. Friday Patrick Anthology Lewis. and kitty cats, the library has got a book. from , copyright © 2012 Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong Come on in, take a look. A poem for each week for each grade level (K-8) Learn how to cook or write a poem. Take 5 connections to TEKS skills for every poem Read it here or take it home. What do you want to learn about? Poems by Naomi Shihab Nye, Jack Prelutsky, It’s free! Joyce Sidman, J. Patrick Lewis, Marilyn Nelson, It’s here! Nikki Grimes, Linda Sue Park, Kathi Appelt, Check it out! Guadalupe Garcia McCall and 70 more * copyright © 2012 Sara Holbrook K-5K-5* Edition Grades 6–8 Edition The Poetry The The Poetry Friday Anthology Anthology Friday Poetry The * Friday Anthology

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TEXAS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 23 TLA 2013 th • FACEBOOK – www.facebok.com/ Texas Library ConferenceTexasLibraryAssociation sessions and learning opportunities from 100 experts. Featured presenters this year • General Conference FAQ and include David Lankes, Buffy Hamilton, Information A-Z – http://www.txla.org/ Joyce Valenza, José Aponte, Jamie LaRue, conference-overview#AtoZ Mike Eisenberg, Gary Strong, Jim Self, Tony Diaz, Andrew McCarthy, Nia Conference Updates Vardalos, and Chris Haley. The Opening Author Session Luncheon Fort Worth, here we come! sponsored by LiFTA on Thursday, April 25 The full schedule of programs and events at noon features author and actor Andrew This year, the TLA conference allows our was mailed to TLA members as a special McCarthy and the newly-scheduled Susan community to return to Fort Worth for winter edition of the Texas Library Journal. Elizabeth Phillips, author of The Great the first time in almost 16 years. From the For additional conference information Escape, Call Me Irresistible, and Glitter Kimball and Amon Carter museums to the including live registration, go to the Baby. Andrew McCarthy is formerly Stockyards and Botanical Gardens, Fort TLA 2013 conference site: www.txla.org/ known for films like Saint Elmo’s Fire and Worth offers an amazing range of activities, annual-conference. Less Than Zero but is now a travel writer for attractions, and experiences. • Mobile App – Download the National Geographic and author of his own The 2013 TLA Annual Conference in mobile app for TLA’s Fort Worth recent book on relationships, The Longest Fort Worth, April 24-27, features great conference. To access the app, go to Way Home: One Man’s Quest for the Courage authors, library experts, and programs. your mobile device’s App Store feature to Settle Down. Phillips is the only four- Advocacy and promotional activities will and search for TLA2013. This free time recipient of the Romance Writers of take center stage as the library community app is available for both Apple and America’s prestigious Favorite Book of the comes together “Promoting Our Values, Android devices. With it, you will Year Award, and she was honored with its Proving Our Worth.” With three general be able to schedule your conference Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. session speakers – J.R. Martinez, Dan activities, receive updates and alerts, Due to an unavoidable scheduling conflict, Ariely, and Neil Gaiman – this year’s view the Exhibit Hall map and vendor Nia Vardalos has graciously agreed to speak gathering (the association’s 100th information, locate other maps, create on Saturday, April 27 at 1:15 p.m. instead conference!) offers an expanded schedule a profile, schedule events, and so of the Opening Author Session Luncheon. of programs and activities. much more! Please maximize your No ticket is required to hear this popular conference experience by signing Of course, you’ll want to take time to author, screenwriter, producer, director, up today! visit TLA’s famous Exhibit Hall, where and star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding. She hundreds of corporate partners and • Conference Blog: http://www.txla. will speak about her amazing parenting industry representatives will be available org/categories/blog-categories/annual- journey detailed in Instant Mom: I Thought to show you the latest in technology, conference I Knew Love, and Then I Met My Daughter. trends, tools, resources, and (of course) • TWITTER – http://twitter.com/TXLA books and informational content! The Were You There? -Use hashtag #TXLA13 to tweet about TLA last met in Fort Worth in 1997. S. Joe Buyers Guide to TLA 2013 Exhibitors conference events included in the following pages provides McCord was president, and the conference you with a detailed listing of our vendors theme was People, Libraries, Information: and corporate partners. PROMOTING Resources Worth Sharing. Timeless! A video OUR corner in the “Connect to Know” booth in The mainstay of the TLA conference is the Exhibit Hall will be waiting to capture the extraordinary talent of speakers. TLA’s anecdotes and comments teaching conference offers hundreds of PROVING OUR about TLA conferences through the years. Share Conference Previews! a memory, and you’ll be entered in a Wondering whether to attend a particular program at the 2013 Conference? Check drawing for out teaser trailers of assorted speakers and authors at: www.txla.org/conference- some pretty previews. Be sure to keep checking the site, as videos will be added through the start spectacular of conference. prizes. J

24 Texas Library Journal • Spring 2013 Corporate Sponsors “Charles Goodnight: A Man For All Ages” Diamond The new work from Wyman Meinzer and B. Byron Price Capstone Available exclusively from armstrongcountymuseum.com TLA 2013 Demco, Inc. th Follett Texas Library Conference H-E-B/Read 3 100 Media Source Platinum Baker & Taylor Bound To Stay Bound Mackin Educational Resources Paper - $22 Hardcover- $50 Gold Bison Edition - $1,500 Brodart Company 806-226-2187 / 806-676-0999 Libra-Tech Corporation Little, Brown Silver EBSCO Ingram Library Services Inc Library Interiors Of Texas Knovation/netTrekker Bronze ABC-CLIO Aladdin & Atheneum Biblionix Escue & Associates Penguin Young Readers Group Perma-Bound Books ProQuest

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No TLA conference would be complete without extended visits to the TLA Exhibit Hall, the nation’s largest state library tradeshow. The business of libraries occurs on many levels, and the industry component of library work is integral in a successful operation. The exhibit hall at annual conference is a key venue for many of the decisions on how that money is spent. TLA partners very closely with our vendor community to deliver a tradeshow that is first rate. We make a commitment to our vendors to provide strong programming so that attendees will take the time to come; and vendors play a vital role in helping support the activities and costs that make conference happen. Hundreds of companies in hundreds of booths showcase the latest technologies, tools, and materials needed to run Texas libraries. From small things to big, the TLA tradeshow offers the chance to get great savings and to take care of library business while attending conference. TLA thanks our library vendors for their support of TLA and the library community.

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56 Texas Library Journal • Spring 2013 Disney-Hyperion...... 2241 VIS Enterprises...... 2007 Sourcebooks, Inc...... 1842 DLB Educational Corporation...... 2437 World Book, Inc...... 1425 Texas Tech University Press...... 1440 Eerdmans Books for Young Readers...... 1247 Children’s Books – Asian/Indian Tor/Forge Books...... 1136 Egmont USA...... 1147 Authors Sherry Garland & U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.....1016 Ellamon...... 2113 Melanie Chrismer...... 1020 University of Texas Press...... 1718 Enslow Publishers, Inc...... 2320 Comic Books World Book, Inc...... 1425 Escue & Associates...... 2321 Bedrock City Comic Co...... 2206 General Magazines Firefly Books, Ltd...... 2424 Indie Press Showcase...... 1349 Boyds Mills Press...... 1914 Gareth Stevens Publishing, Inc...... 2318 Cookbooks Cobblestone & Cricket...... 1314 Garrett Book Company...... 1818 Chronicle Books...... 1346 Combined Book Exhibit...... 2532 Groundwood Books...... 2240 HarperCollins Publishers...... 2233 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