To what extent is your library contributing towards building a peaceful community or world?  Explore ways to measure your library’s peace impact by examining library global impact measures, collective impact, community well-being/wellness indicators and global peace indexes.

» GENERAL

• Hogan, Kimberley.  Measuring for Impact in Human Rights: What, Why, How, and For Whom? September 20, 2018. http://skoll.org/2018/09/20/measuring-impact-human-rights/

¤ COLLECTIVE IMPACT

• “Chapter 2 – Section 5. Collective Impact” http://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/overview/models-for-community-health-and-development/collective-impact/main
• Collective Impact http://www.fsg.org/ideas-in-action/collective-impact
• Collective Impact Forum https://collectiveimpactforum.org/what-collective-impact
• The Collective Impact Framework http://www.collaborationforimpact.com/collective-impact/
  • Where does Collective impact fit on the Collaboration continuum? http://www.collaborationforimpact.com/collaborative-approaches/ca-subpage-2/
• Kania, John and Kramer, Mark. (Winter 2011) Collective Impact,” Stanford Social Innovation Review. http://ssir.org/articles/entry/collective_impact

§ COMMUNITY WELLNESS/VITALITY INDICATORS
“A community indicator is a type of data that provides insight into the overall social, economic, or environmental conditions and trends present in a community.” (GreensborOmeter)

• The Boston Indicators Project http://www.bostonindicators.org/.  Metro Boston Data Commons http://metroboston.datacommon.org/.  Mayor’s Dashboard http://www.cityofboston.gov/mayorsdashboard/  “Library users” have been incorporated into CityScore, an initiative designed to inform the Mayor and city managers about the overall health of the City at a moment’s notice by aggregating key performance metrics into one number.
• Community Indicators Consortium. Indicator Projects.
• CommunityWealth.org. Search its resources on “library” and “libraries”
• Greater Potland Pulse (GPP) provides data and context to promote informed decision making in the Portland, Oregon, metro region.
• GreensborOmeter. “A community indicator is a type of data that provides insight into the overall social, economic, or environmental conditions and trends present in a community.” The GreensbOrometer can help residents, City Council, and staff by:
  • Assessing the magnitude or pace of community features or processes
  • Comparing Greensboro to other communities or other regions
  • Identifying problems or issues facing Greensboro or its neighborhoods
  • Developing policies that address known problems or issues
  • Setting goals and tracking performance in implementing adopted plans
• Hamilton Community Wellness Indicators (Canada)
• Hawaii Quality of Life.
• Kids Count Data Center – the premier source for data on child and family well-being in the United States.
• Macdonald, B. et al. Measuring the Performance and Impact of Community Indicators Systems: Insights on frameworks and examples of key performance indicators. Prepared for Peg: A community indicator system for Winnipeg (www.mypeg.ca), by International Institute for Sustainable Development.  June 2012.
• McCook, Kathleen de la Peña and Brand, Kristin. “Community Indicators, Genuine Progress, and the Golden Billion,”Reference & User Services Quarterly, 40(4): 337-340, Summer 2001. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41241405
• Spokane Community Indicators.
• *Urban Libraries. Making Cities Stronger: Public Library Contributions to Local Economic Development. 2007.  A summary handout.
• Urban Informatics http://www.urbaninformatics.net.

» LIBRARIES: ANALYTICS AND METRICS

• Tay, Aaron. 5 Reasons Why Library Analytics is on the Rise.  http://musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com/2016/11/5-reasons-why-library-analytics-is-on.html

» LIBRARIES: GLOBAL IMPACT

• American Library Association (ALA). Libraries Matter: Impact Research.  A compilation of research on the economic, educational/literacy and social impacts of libraries.
• Global Libraries Atlas.
• Jeremy Paley , Julia Cottrill , Katherine Errecart , Aimee White , Carrie Schaden , Tyler Schrag , Robert Douglas , Beeta Tahmassebi , Rachel Crocker , David Streatfield , (2015) “The evolution of Global Libraries’ performance measurement and impact assessment systems“, Performance Measurement and Metrics, Vol. 16 Iss: 2, pp.132 – 158. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/PMM-04-2015-0010
• Measures that Matter http://measuresthatmatter.net/  The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA) have begun Measures that Matter, a project to examine, evaluate, and map the landscape of public library data collection in the United States. The project will develop a Library Data and Outcomes Action Plan with key library stakeholder groups for a more coordinated approach to the collection of public library data nationally.
• OCLC. Global Library Statistics. Data provides the “total number of libraries, librarians, volumes, expenditures, and users for every country and territory in the world broken down into the major library types: academic, public, school, special and national. It is important to remember that these figures do not represent OCLC membership. The statistics also include available data for languages used, and the number of library schools, publishers, and museums.”
• Schrag, Tyler; Medford, Chris; Cotrill, Julia; and Paley, Jeremy. (2015). Building a Public Library Impact Data Hub: a Global Libraries “Data Atlas” for Storytelling, Strategy Development, and Collaboration. Paper presented at: IFLA WLIC 2015 – Cape Town, South Africa in Session 88 – Library Theory and Research with Statistics and Evaluation.
• Sey, A., Coward, C., Rothschild, C., Clark, M., and Koepke, L. (2013). Public libraries connecting people for development: Findings from the Global Impact Study. Seattle: Technology & Social Change Group, University of Washington Information School.  Read more at Global Impact Study website.
• Using Impact Data in Advocacy.

» LIBRARIES AS COMMUNITY ANCHORS, PLACE

• Berndtson, Maija. “Public Libraries and Placemaking,” Proceedings of the 2013 IFLA World Library and Information Congress, Singapore. http://library.ifla.org/224/1/081-berndtson-en.pdf
• Dudley, Michael (ed.). Public Libraries and Resilient Cities. Chicago: ALA Editions, 2013. http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3540

⇒ GLOBAL INDEXES AND ASSESSMENTS: PEACE, SOCIAL PROGRESS, ETC.

• Freedom in the World, a report published since 1973 by Freedom House, established in 1941 – It assesses the political rights and civil liberties of countries globally, while the Freedom on the Net report assesses online liberties around the world.
• Gender Inequality
  • Georgetown University’s Institute for Women, Peace & Security.  Women Peace and Security Index (WPS Index) draws on recognized data sources to measure women’s inclusion, justice, and security in 170 countries.
  • Statista. Global Gender Gap Index. 2023
  • UNDP. Gender Inequality Index (GII) – composite metric of gender inequality using three dimensions: reproductive health, empowerment and the labour market.
  • World Economic Forum.  Global Gender Gap Report.  2022 | 2023
• Initiative to Measure Peace and Conflict Outcomes (IMPACT), United States Institute of Peace. http://www.usip.org/publications/2015/09/28/initiative-measure-peace-and-conflict-outcomes-impact
• Institute for Economics and Peace–  – publishes the annual Global Peace Index (GPI) report and offers the free, 2-hour course on positive peace through the Peace Academy.
  • Vision of Humanity – Founded in 2008, powered by research, data and analysis by the world renowned think tank, the Institute for Economics & Peace, Vision of Humanity is a destination for peace providing analysis, data, and editorial through a lens of peace, security and development. The IEP produces a map of the Gobal Peace Index (GPI), which is the world’s leading measure of global peacefulness. This report presents the most comprehensive data-driven analysis to-date on trends in peace, its economic value, and how to develop peaceful societies. The Global Peace Index covers 99.7% of the world’s population, and is calculated using 23 qualitative and quantitative indicators from highly respected sources, and measures the state of peace across three domains: the level of Societal Safety and Security; the extent of Ongoing Domestic and International Conflict; and the degree of Militarisation.
• Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment http://www.gsdrc.org/topic-guides/conflict-sensitivity/approaches-and-tools/peace-and-conflict-impact-assessment/
• Silicon Peace.  Corporate Peace Index.
• The Gutman Center, The Israel Democracy Institute.  The Peace Index.
• Social Progress Index https://www.socialprogress.org