Library Performance Assessment

If after reading the LibPAS commentary you (and your State/Province) would like to discuss (or provide data for) LibPAS, please contact us at: info@countingopinions.com to discuss

LibPAS (Library Performance Assessment System) enhances library productivity and advocacy with a data gathering, reporting and management system that is characterized by flexibility.
Flexibility in terms of how your library wishes to:

• gather your data.
• access and report data.
• combine performance data with qualitative customer data. 

Features

Reports
• Secure portal for accessing/managing Performance Indicator (PI) data/results
• Comprehensive series of on-line, real-time, on-demand reports
• Trend reports, Peer Ranking reports, Custom Benchmarking reports, ...
• Combine quantitative LibPAS and qualitative LibSat results
• Reports feature charts and one-click access to Excel format data downloads
PI Collection Management
• Dictionary of available PI data elements, normalized PIs and definitions
• Comprehensive "collection" management for existing and custom PI collections
• Customize collection periods and locations with automatic roll-ups and calculations
• Automatic calculation of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and ratios

Benefits

Productivity
• online entry of data
• automatic re-use of PI data across data collections
• PIs captured at any level (branch, division, system, region, provincial/state, ...)
• PIs captured for any time period (monthly, quarterly, annually, ...)
• auto tally key ratios and normalized PIs across locations and time periods
• on-demand standard and custom reporting
Advocacy
• on-demand access to results, ratios, trends and  comparative data to support operational insight, budget presentations, capital funding drives, ...
• no waiting for months/years before reports are available
• supports peer comparisons (regionally, nationally, internationally) at region, system, division and branch levels to identify best practices and support proposals

Options

• Access to the Public Library Data Set (PLDS) is available to LibPAS subscribers. Libraries can now fully (and strategically) employ the PLDS (either standalone or combination with other data) using the comprehensive reporting LibPAS reporting tools.

You can contact us at info@countingopinions.com