Benchmarking: the Search for Peers. A Hybrid Library's Experience. Issue 8 (16th November 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dole, Wanda V.
• Is Part Of: Journal of library administration. Volume 56:Issue 8(2016)
• Page Start: 1018
• Page End: 1029
• Publication Date: 2016-11-16
• Subjects: U.S. Presidential Libraries -- measurement -- metrics -- indicators -- benchmarking -- peers; Library administration -- Periodicals; 025.1
• DOI: 10.1080/01930826.2016.1231555
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0193-0826

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Although there are established measurements and metricsfor academic libraries, there are few, if any, for presidential libraries, especially hybrid presidential libraries. The presidential library system, part of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), administers and defines metrics for 13 libraries documenting the lives and work of U.S. presidents since Herbert Hoover (1929–1933). There is no equivalent system for the non-NARA Presidential Libraries, such as the ALPLM, that documents the lives of earlier presidents. Can the non-NARA Libraries be considered a peer group for benchmarking? This column examines benchmarking and the attempts of the ALPLM to define a peer group.