Analysis of technical efficiency is an important tool in management of public libraries. We assess the efficiency of 4660 public municipal libraries in the Czech Republic in the year 2017. For this purpose, we utilize data envelopment analysis (DEA) based on the Chebyshev distance. We consider total expenditures, employees and book collection as inputs with registrations, book circulation, event attendance and collection additions as outputs. We pay special attention to the operating environment and find that the efficiency scores significantly depend on the population of the municipality and its distance to the municipality with extended powers. To remove the effect of the operating environment, we perform DEA separately for categories based on decision tree analysis as well as categories designed by an expert.
翻译:技术效率分析是管理公共图书馆的一个重要工具。我们评估了2017年捷克共和国4660个公共市政图书馆的效率。为此,我们利用Chebyshev距离的数据覆盖分析(DEA),我们认为总支出、雇员和图书收集是登记、图书发行、事件出勤和收集增加等产出的投入。我们特别关注业务环境,发现效率得分在很大程度上取决于该市人口及其与拥有广泛权力的城市之间的距离。为了消除运作环境的影响,我们根据决策树分析以及专家设计的类别分别执行DEA。