1. Or Just Maintaining, Your Budget
Increasing
Or Just Maintaining, Your Budget

2. How Did Your Budget Fare This Fiscal Year?
Increased Decreased Stayed Flat or Close to Flat
What are some of the things you asked for in your budget and how did you justify it?

3. What We Will Cover
Common Problems What Works Using Data to Get Where We Want to Be

4. Common Problems Getting into a rut with our own arguments
Justifying our requests with appeals to emotion without meaningful data
Funders making decisions based on their preconceptions of libraries

5. How is Your Library Funded?
Most of Us Get Our Money from Politicians
City
County
State
Other
This Means You Are a Politician Too!

6. What Works
Rebranding the library in context of your political environment
Showing how the work of the library supports your funders’ goals
Show the return on investment (ROI) of the library
Decide on what measurables your stakeholders want as a team

7. Outcome or Performance Based Budgeting
Translates the work of the library into a form that someone without any knowledge of libraries can understand
Sets a framework for how the library and stakeholders will measure success

8. Our Stakeholders Teamwork Don’t Know Much of What We Do
Don’t Understand our Terminology
Find Our Statistics Overwhelming
Open Communication
Reach Consensus for What Matters
Cherry Pick the Statistics that Support the Consensus

9. Durham County Library Measuring for Results
Everything I Thought was Wrong Everything They Thought was Wrong We Came Up with Our Own Right
“Library Services”
“Technology”
Organization
All Old Jargon Scrapped
Created New Jargon
Terminology
Greater Appreciation for the Other
Rejected Ideas are Still Useful Internally
Ideas

10. Where Do These Data Come From?
Traditional In House Statistics Combined with Open Data Statistics from Our Partners Government and Professional Websites Resources from NC Live

11. ROI Calculator http://www.lrs.org/public/roi/calculator.php
Mouseover libraries to see closest match or use:
to choose peer library.

12. Choosing Peer Libraries
PLS (Public Library Survey) v. PLDS (Public Library Data Service Statistical Report)

13. National Trend Survey Data

14. Wages
Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Area Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

15. Your Budget Adjusted for Inflation
Bureau of Economic Analysis Table

16. ReferenceUSA

17. SimplyMap

18. Don’t Let This Happen to You

19. Librarian Pulp Fiction Images
Citations
Librarian Pulp Fiction Images
ROI Details
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Library Research Service ROI Calculator,
“Cost to use alternatives” – Cost to patrons to acquire information or materials from an alternative source if the library did not exist
“Lost use” – Direct benefit patrons who chose not to seek information elsewhere would lose if the library did not exist
Local expenditures – What the library spends on goods and services in its community
Lost staff compensation – Salaries and wages that would not be paid without the library
“Halo spending” – Purchases made by patrons at businesses near the library when they visit