Models of static and dynamic technical efficiency of municipal libraries in the Czech Republic

Vrabková, Iveta

doi:10.1016/j.seps.2018.09.001

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“…A question for a broader discussion is whether, regarding the social benefit and interest, the inefficiency of public galleries is less significant than the positive externalities being produced by them in the form of accessible cultural services. This is discussed by Vavrek and Bečica (2020) within the context of public theaters, and by Vrabková (2019) in relation to public libraries. Another perspective to be applied to the above-stated situation is that if positive externalities of galleries or other cultural services being supported from the public budgets cannot be exactly measured, then the most reliable indicator of their efficiency as well as the level of positive externalities is represented by the number of visitors (users) of these cultural services.…”

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The Technical and Allocative Efficiency of the Regional Public Galleries in the Czech Republic

Vrabková

Bečica

2021

Sage Open

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The regional public galleries in the Czech Republic belong to the most important and the biggest institutions of their kind. The article deals with the assessment of the technical and allocation efficiency of 19 regional public galleries for the period between 2011 and 2015 from the perspective of the static as well as the dynamic efficiency. For the estimation of the efficiency according to the specific inputs and outputs, the Data Envelopment Analysis model and the Malmquist Index were used. In 2015, four galleries were fully technically efficient, and the average efficiency of the set being assessed was 70%. In 2015, in comparison with 2011, 11 public galleries improved their productivity. In 2015, seven galleries reached the full allocation efficiency, and the average efficiency was 90%. In 2015, in comparison with 2011, 12 public galleries improved their efficiency.

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The Technical and Allocative Efficiency of the Regional Public Galleries in the Czech Republic

Vrabková

Bečica

2021

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“…In some studies, further, other tools such as Free Disposal Hull Approach (Stroobants and Bouckaert, 2014), Stochastic Frontier Regression (Saunders, 2003), and Malmquist Index approach along with DEA have utilized (Vrabková, 2018).…”

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“…Variables such as educational and cultural programs, social justice and capital, information literacy and social solidarity have been used just in performance evaluation of public libraries (Vrabková, 2018;Guajardo, 2018). About 16% of studies (Table 4) do not follow the rule of thumb.…”

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DEA-based Performance Evaluation of Libraries: A Systematic Mapping study

Najafi

Sefiddashti

Sheikhshoaei

et al. 2020

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Este estudio emplea un estudio de mapeo sistemático para analizar publicaciones sobre evaluación del desempeño de la biblioteca con análisis por envoltura de datos (DEA, por sus siglas en inglés). La revisión se basa en una búsqueda exhaustiva en la literatura académica que incluye bases de datos científicas de Scopus y Web of Science. Se seleccionaron 44 artículos publicados entre 1997 y 2018 como el núcleo del estudio. Los resultados muestran que los estudios publicados son realizados principalmente por especialistas en economía, administración, ingeniería y apenas por especialistas en bibliotecología y ciencias de la información. Curiosamente, una gran cantidad de los estudios se llevan a cabo en Taiwán y los Estados Unidos con un enfoque específico en la evaluación del desempeño de las bibliotecas universitarias. Los resultados de este estudio identifican lagunas en términos de técnicas, métodos y procesos utilizados para evaluar el rendimiento de las bibliotecas. Identificar estas brechas puede ayudar a los investigadores de las Ciencias de la Información y Bibliotecología a prestar más atención a la investigación sobre la evaluación del desempeño de las bibliotecas. Además, el estudio identifica las variables clave de entrada y salida en la evaluación del desempeño de las bibliotecas.

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“…An alternative approach to evaluate the change in efficiency over time involves decomposing the Malmquist productivity index into the two concepts of technological progress (displacement of the efficiency frontier) and improvement in efficiency (movements of the units towards the frontier). Some studies in the field of libraries have adopted this approach [34,41]. Nevertheless, these models also evidence the same limitation by assuming that the inputs from each period are used in full to obtain the outputs from the same period, without therefore assuming that there might be dependence relations between inputs and outputs over time, and that decisions taken on the input in one period might have an impact on the output to emerge from subsequent periods.…”

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Urban public libraries: Performance analysis using dynamic-network-DEA

Barrio‐Tellado

Gómez‐Vega

Gómez-Zapata

et al. 2021

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

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The aim of this work is to posit a model to evaluate the efficiency of a system of urban public libraries and to examine the impact of certain contextual variables on the level of performance. We take the System of Public Libraries in the city of Medellin (Colombia) as a case study and consider a production function which displays three main characteristics. First, it is a complete production function which spans the different activities undertaken by these institutions, not only the one that identifies it with its function as a repository of knowledge. Second, there is the production function in stages, which allows us to distinguish between the various activities controlled by management from those coproduced with users, together with the link between the two. The third is a production function which takes into account temporal interdependence relations by identifying quasi-fixed inputs that remain for the provision of the service over time. This then allows us to analyse how efficiency evolves during the period in question. Efficiency evaluation is carried out by employing a dynamicnetwork-DEA model and we also apply truncated bootstrap regression to estimate the effect of certain contextual variables on library efficiency. The results evidence a growing trend in the efficiency indices, with values that are slightly more favourable in the second stage of service provision than in the stage focusing on managing the cultural programme. Factors such as the level of education, population density, youthfulness, and safety are seen to positively affect library performance, particularly in the second stage vis-à-vis the public.

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Models of static and dynamic technical efficiency of municipal libraries in the Czech Republic

Cited by 10 publications

References 19 publications

The Technical and Allocative Efficiency of the Regional Public Galleries in the Czech Republic

The Technical and Allocative Efficiency of the Regional Public Galleries in the Czech Republic

DEA-based Performance Evaluation of Libraries: A Systematic Mapping study

Urban public libraries: Performance analysis using dynamic-network-DEA

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