ABSTRACT
Libraries, and librarians, no longer accept the passive view of the library as a warehouse of knowledge, or even as just a purveyor of books, periodicals, and other printed information. In an attempt to seek an effective way of identifying new sets of library statistics and a new interim measure of library efficiency, the Director of The Molesworth Institute took a slight respite from his normal duties to contemplate and consider this issue. A careful examination of more work in the field was made but that work was dismissed largely because the mathematics and the terminology used were beyond the comprehension of the Director. Few formulas of the complex social organizations produce results that are so simple to interpret. The less direct relationship a set of statistics has to the immediate work of an organization, the more that set of statistics can tell us about the true efficiency of that organization.
