国际图联《图书馆投资回报率——近10年案例回顾》解读与启示

Enlightenment of IFLA's Library's ROI——Review of Cases in the Last Ten Years

2020年7月,国际图联发布《图书馆投资回报率——近10年案例回顾》报告,概述了过去十年来全球各地公共图书馆、高校图书馆和专业图书馆投资回报率(ROI)的研究与评估实践,总结了不同类型图书馆评估其工作价值和投资回报率的多种方法。文章通过深入解读该报告,认为当前我国图书馆应转变观念,重视经济价值评估研究,将经济价值评估变成图书馆的自主行为,并能够常态化、周期性开展;在评估活动开展过程中,行业协会要发挥倡导和组织作用,并联合专业评估机构参与评估,使评估过程科学可信;同时还要注意因地制宜,根据我国国情和图书馆特点选择并逐步改进评估方法。

In the July of 2020,IFLA issued a report Library's ROI----Review of Cases in the Last Ten Years in which outlines were given about studies and evaluations of the ROI of public libraries,university libraries and professional libraries all over the world in the last years,and different methods were introduced concerning the assessment of library work and ROI.Through an interpretation of the report,the author believes that libraries in our country should change our ideas about library,pay more attention to the study of assessment of economic value,and the assessment should be regarded as library's normal autonomous work.The industry association should play the leading role in advocating and organizing the assessment,and in order to make the assessment more credible,professional evaluating agencies can be invited to take part in the job.The assessing methods should be improved gradually to fit to the actual situation of our country and the specific library.