Output Measures for Evaluating the Performance of Community College Learning Resources Programs: A California Case Study

It became apparent that input measures by themselves (size of staff, amount of budget, number of books...) were no longer an appropriate means of evaluating library programs. In order to assist libraries to become more accountable, library output measures were developed. Output measures can relate to the number of materials circulated, the number of reference questions answered, the number of students receiving instruction, the number of productions,the amount of equipment used.