Consultants of the Central Kansas Library System evaluate our member public libraries. I created Shelf Shuffler and Collection Manager spreadsheets to do my part of those evaluations.
I use the spreadsheet version of the annual state statistical report to do Library Comparisons to answer questions and evaluate libraries. Since the annual statistics would be better if librarians would collect the data for systematically. I created Data Collector for more systematic collection. If librarians would systematically collect the required statistics through the year and store this data in a tool like Data Collector, filling out the state annual reports would take about 30 minutes. And the data would be more valid and reliable.
In October 2014, I added Experiments for Librarians. These spreadsheets contain the instructions and spreadsheet analysis of the results.
These spreadsheets are provided free under a Creative Commons license.
I created as Microsoft Excel.
If you do not have Excel, then try Open Office at https://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html
Chris Rippel
Central Kansas Library System
Great Bend, Kansas
crippel@ckls.org
620-792-4865
