See the press section for details. This third edition is once again featured in American Libraries magazine in the November 2000 issue. Like all rating systems, this one has caused its share of controversy. I have tried throughout to learn from critics and supporters alike, so please contact me with observations good or bad. Jeanette Hurt of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel wrote on 4 February 2001, Library rankings stir some debate People rate hospitals.
People rank universities.
People grade cities. He publishes Hennen's American Public Library Rating Index, which rates libraries across the country. But in issuing the first and only scorecard of its kind for 9,000 of the nation's libraries, Hennen, a Racine resident who is the administrator for the Waukesha County Federated Library System, shook up the staid library community. He addressed the conference in Canberra on October 27, 2000. Ohio has fewer than 3 percent of the nation s libraries, but is home to 25 percent of the best-rated libraries in the U.S., according to Hennen s American Library Rating Index.