In one of my many readings, a posting listed several different ways of looking how public libraries are measuring up. One such project, the Normative Data Project for Libraries has a great website: http://www.libraryndp.info/index.html

I was looking at Idaho's information which shows that we are ranked 7th in the nation for library visits per capita.

One of the things I find interesting about this is (and it relates to Mike's last post about the future of libraries) the value that people ascribe to the "library as place". I've become more conscious of this role in recent months and I think it might need to be one of those considerations for us in the future.