%T National welfare and economic contribution of Australian public libraries %I Australian Library and Information Association %D 2013 %K Economics, %K Libraries %U https://apo.org.au/node/34141 %X Introduction On behalf of a consortium of state and territory libraries, the Australia Library and Information Association (ALIA) commissioned SGS Economics and Planning Pty Ltd (SGS) to generate estimates of the contributions that public libraries make to Australian community welfare and Australian economic activity. To do this, SGS applied the same methodological principles that were adopted in recent Victorian and Queensland studies, which were based on two separate measurement frameworks: %9 Report