Table 4. Estimation of the economic impacts of the library

Library activities	Market value estimation	Data sources
Employment of local residents	Obtaining the direct payrolls of the library to calculate the average pay by job categories, then surveying more than 200 library staff anonymously to estimate their likelihood to stay in Johnson County if their jobs would be eliminated and whether they would find another job outside Johnson County, and then using the percentage of staff who would have left the county to calculate the direct and multiplier impacts of the library payrolls.	Library payroll data and staff survey data
Maintenance and other services bought from local vendors and suppliers	Obtaining the operating budget for contractual services and estimating about 80 percent of the spending to stay local and impact the local economy.	Library budget