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These past several months the LJ Index of Public Library Service has been in the news in all regions of the USA, showcasing libraries that excel in providing services to their communities. So, it was troubling to see that the Index became newsworthy in a conflict between a library director and library board. A Library [...]

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I want to explain why LJ Index scores are not well-behaved. That is, why they don’t conform to neat and tidy intervals the way HAPLR scores range from about 30 to 930. HAPLR scores fall into a predictable range because they are built on percentiles. Any given library’s score is a sum of 15 percentile [...]

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