Articles & Papers I Have Written
Rainy Day Statistics: U.S. Public Libraries and the Great Recession, Public Library Quarterly, Vol. 32 No. 2, 2013, pp. 97-118.
Duck Soup and Library Outcome Evaluation, Public Library Quarterly, Vol. 31 No. 4, 2012, pp. 326-338.
America's Star Libraries: The LJ Index of Public Library Service 2012, Library Journal, November 1, 2012, pp. 22-32. Co-authored with Dr. Keith Curry Lance.
America's Star Libraries: The LJ Index of Public Library Service 2011, Library Journal, November 1, 2011, pp. 26-31. Co-authored with Dr. Keith Curry Lance.
Using Basic Data Visualization Methods to Explore LibQual+® Data, paper presented at the 9th Northumbria International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries and Information Services, August 22-26, 2011, University of York, UK.
Overstating Summer Reading Impact: The Dominican Study, Public Library Quarterly, Vol. 30 No.1, 2011, pp. 54-61.
Statistical Correctness, Library & Information Science Research, Vol. 33 No.1, 2011, pp. 92-95.
Truth-Telling and Survey Methods in Advocacy Research: A Call for the Formation of the Flat Venus Society in Library Assessment, paper presented at 2010 Library Assessment Conference, October 25-27, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
America's Star Libraries: LJ Index of Public Library Service 2010, Library Journal, October 1, 2010, pp. 22-31. Co-authored with Dr. Keith Curry Lance.
America's Star Libraries: LJ Index of Public Library Service 2009 - Round 2, Library Journal, November 16, 2009, pp. 18-22. Co-authored with Dr. Keith Curry Lance.
The Call for Evidence Based Practice: Speaking Louder than Words, Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, Vol. 4 No. 3, 2009,pp. 63-67.
Critiquing Advocacy Research Findings: An Illustration from the OCLC Report, From Awareness to Funding, Public Library Quarterly, Vol. 28 No. 3, 2009, pp. 212-226.
Understanding the Methodological Foundations of Public Library National Ratings, in Heaney, M. (ed.) Library Statistics for the 21st Century World (IFLA Publication #138) Munich: K.G. Saur, 2009, pp. 135-145. Excerpts available here.
America's Star Libraries: The LJ Index of Public Library Service 2009, Library Journal, February 15, 2009, pp. 26-33. Co-authored with Dr. Keith Curry Lance.
Honorable Mention: What Public Library National Ratings Say, Public Libraries, November/December 2008, pp. 36-41. Co-authored with Dr. Neal Kaske.
Making Incremental Improvements to Public Library Comparative Statistical Practices, paper presented at 2008 Library Assessment Conference, August 4-7, Seattle, Washington, USA. Co-authored with Dr. Jason Holmes.
The New LJ Index, Library Journal, June 15, 2008. Co-authored with Dr. Keith Curry Lance.
Use and Perceptions of Comparative Statistics by Ohio Public Libraries. An exploratory survey I conducted in May 2008. See also the study questionnaire.
Book Review: Mark Y. Herring (2007). Fool's Gold: Why the Internet is No Substitute for a Library, Public Library Quarterly, Vol. 27 No. 3, 2008, pp. 265-266.
Unsettling Scores: An Evaluation of Hennen's Annual Public Library Ratings, Public Library Quarterly, Vol. 24 Nos. 3/4, 2007, pp. 49-100.