$4 to $1: Public Library Benefits and Budgets

A good public library is at the heart of any healthy community and deserves appropriate funding.

While much of the true value of a library is hard to measure, even the measurable benefits usually return more than $4 in benefits for every $1 spent.

This book offers a detailed overview of library benefits and spending in 2011 and how it's changed from 2009, to help libraries and their supporters understand where they are and how to tell the library story in order to sustain and improve funding.