| Return on Investment Calculator: Juniata County Library |
| Service Comparison | Where to Find the Data | Statistcs | Service Value to Your Community | What it Means | How Value Was Calculated |
| Per Person Contribution to the Library | Enter Contributions Per Capita from Annual Report ($250,616 Total Funds (Federal, State, Local) / 22,821 Population Served) | $10.98 | | This is what the average person pays toward the library. | Total receipts divided by the population served. |
| Book Purchases: Adult & Young Adult | Enter Adult/YA Book & Serial Circulation from Annual Report | 46,313 | $926,260.00 | This is what the community would have paid if they had to buy books rather than borrow them. | Adult books circulated multiplied by $20 (price in between a hard and softcover book.) |
| Book Purchases: Children | Enter Juvenile Book & Serial Circulation from Annual Report | 25,588 | $511,760.00 | This is what the community would have paid if they had to buy children's books rather than borrow them. | Children's books circulated multiplied by $20 (price in between a hard and softcover book.) |
| Classes/Programs | Enter Total Program Attendance from Annual Report (2,637 Attendance at Juv Programs, 127 Attendance at AD Programs) | 2,764 | $22,112.00 | This is what the community would have paid for entertainment at the movies or a class at the local college. | Program attendance multiplied by $8, based on the cost of a movie ticket. |
| Computer & Internet Access | Number of Users of Public Internet Computers per Year from Annual Report | 8,887 | $106,644.00 | This is what the community would have paid to use the Internet at a cybercafe. | Internet uses multiplied by $12, based on the cost of computer use per hour at Kinko's Copy Center. |
| DVD, Audiobook Rentals | AV Materials Circulated (Audio, Video, DVD) from Annual Report (49,656 AD + 107 Juv). | 49,763 | $199,052.00 | This is what the community would have paid to rent DVD's from Blockbuster. | DVD's circulated multiplied by $4, the minimum cost for renting a newly released DVD. |
| Information Requests (Reference Questions) | Enter Annual Reference Transactions from Annual Report | 304 | $760.00 | This is what the community would have paid for information requests through Google Answers. | Reference Questions asked multiplied by $2.50 per question, the minimum charge per question on Google Answers. |
| Total Value to Community | | | $1,766,588.00 | | |
| Value Per Capita | Enter Population from Annual Report | 22,821 | $77.41 | | |