Give us a dollar and we'll give you back four (2012-13)

the long version

"Your public library is in competition with a lot of other agencies ... You want your library to sustain its current services and expand them in the future. You know you get a lot of bang for your buck, but how do you show that to the people who hold the purse strings? One way is to use the data in [this book] ... [It] will let you compare your services to those of other similar libraries at a glance and will help give you the data you need to show your funders how much you already stretch their dollars--and how much more you could provide with even a few dollars more"--Page 4 of cover.