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Cost Analysis of Public Libraries in Australia.

Karunaratne, N. D.; And Others – 1976

This is a study on the operating efficiency of the public library system in Australia. Cost functions have been fitted to library data and the results are interpreted with a view to generating insights into the functioning of the existing library system. An exploratory cost benefit analysis has also been attempted. Activities of libraries have…

Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Efficiency, Library Administration

Computerisation in Book Circulation Systems. The Need for Computerisation and a Survey of Automated Circulation Systems.

van der Greft, Theo – 1981

Automated circulation systems in libraries for the blind are described in this report of research conducted by the Subcommittee on Computerised Booklending of the Round Table on Libraries for the Blind (RTLB) of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA). Responses to the RTLB questionnaire from 12 libraries in 9 countries are…

Descriptors: Blindness, Digital Computers, Foreign Countries, International Organizations