Cites & Insights May 2013 now available: Special public library issue

[Walt Crawford]

The May 2013 issue of *Cites & Insights
<http://citesandinsights.info/>*(volume 13, number 5) is now available
for downloading at
http://citesandinsights.info

[If you want a shorter URL, http://cical.info will also work.]

The two-column PDF version is 28 pages long, The 6x9" single-column
version, designed and optimized for e-reading, is 60 pages long.

Unless you plan to print out the issue, the single-column version may be
preferable: the issue includes 31 graphs, each of which is nearly twice as
large (40% wider, 40% taller) in that version, frequently with more detail.

The issue consists of one essay:
Libraries: The Mythical Average Public Library

There is no such thing as the average library. That may be obvious--but you
might be surprised at just how far away from average most measures for most
libraries are. For that matter, for any derivative measure, which average
is average?

This essay discusses averages and a few low-level statistical terms, then
shows where American public libraries stand--not only for 2010 (the most
recent IMLS data) but for changes from 2009 to 2010. I believe you'll find
it revealing and interesting.

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2013-04-02
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