Thomas J. Hennen's article is scheduled to appear in a future issue of Library Journal . He publishes Hennen's American Public Library Ratings. Long Island Library Conference . 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. 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.