The Australian Law Librarians' Association(ALLA) and 3 other Library
organizations (The Australian Library and Information
Association (ALIA),
Health Libraries Inc (HLInc),Health Libraries Australia
(HLA)) collaborated
on a study to measure the Return on Investment of
Australian special
libraries.T he
partners commissioned award-winning firm SGS Economics and
Planning to study
special libraries across the nation. This week,
the
final report was issued " Putting a Value on
Priceless" which provides an
independent assessment of the return on investment
provided to organizations
which have their own special libraries and information
services in
Australia.
"The indicative result from this work is that
special libraries have been
found to return $5.43 for every $1 invested- and that's a
conservative
estimate of their real contribution" For the full report click here.