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Peer reviewedBaumol, William J.; Blackman, Sue Anne Batey – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1983
Examines trends in costs of conventional library operation and costs of electronic devices which may pervade libraries of future. Library costs in 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, library automation, total library operating expenditures for university and college libraries, and rate of adoption of electronic techniques are covered. Sixty-three references…
Descriptors: Costs, Electronic Equipment, Libraries, Library Administration
Peer reviewedRobinson, Barbara M.; Robinson, Sherman – Library Trends, 1994
Discusses strategic planning in libraries and outlines a cost-finding methodology to help library administrators practice strategic budgeting. Highlights include identifying products and services; types of budgets; types of costs; creating an enhanced operating budget; creating a program budget; and outputs and unit costs. (Contains six…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Costs, Library Administration, Library Planning
Peer reviewedPoole, Jay Martin; And Others – College and Research Libraries, 1986
Suggests that as automated information services become more prevalent, it is essential that libraries find permanent funding to support this activity. Funding of information provided by an online search that satisfies legitimate educational and research needs with monies from print materials budget is considered. Three reactions to essay are…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Budgets, Costs, Financial Support
Hoerman, Heidi Lee – 1986
Based on a survey of Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries in February 1986, this kit is designed to illustrate a wide range of alternative approaches to analyzing the costs of technical services. The kit consists of the following unedited primary-source documents: (1) SPEC Technical Services Costs Survey (Three-Year Update)…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Costs, Higher Education, Library Administration
Download full textRandall, G. E. – 1975
Empirically and rationally derived bases for determining the costs for industrial libraries are suggested. Taken into consideration is the fact that recent accounting procedures and the advent of new technologies have introduced costs into the library budget so that literature and personnel costs may now account for only 75-80 percent of the…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Budgets, Costs, Data Processing
Kascus, Marie A., Ed.; Hale, Dawn, Ed. – 1995
Due to automation technology, financial restrictions, and resultant downsizing, library managers have increasingly relied on the services of contractors, rather than in-house staff, to accomplish different technical services operations. Contracted services may range from a small project for a selected group of materials to a large project for…
Descriptors: Authority Control (Information), Cataloging, Check Lists, Classification
