Descriptor
| Foreign Countries | 3 |
| Library Administration | 3 |
| Resource Allocation | 3 |
| Academic Libraries | 2 |
| Costs | 2 |
| Higher Education | 2 |
| Library Services | 2 |
| Comparative Analysis | 1 |
| Cost Effectiveness | 1 |
| Efficiency | 1 |
| Government Libraries | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 2 |
| Reports - Evaluative | 2 |
| Opinion Papers | 1 |
| Reports - Research | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
| Researchers | 1 |
Location
| Australia | 3 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewedEllis-Newman, Jennifer – Library Trends, 2003
The rationale for using Activity-Based Costing (ABC) in a library is to allocate indirect costs to products and services based on the factors that most influence them. This paper discusses the benefits of ABC to library managers and explains the steps involved in implementing ABC in the user services area of an Australian academic library.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Costs, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Missingham, Roxanne – Australian Special Libraries, 1994
Outsourcing has been proposed as a method for improving effectiveness and productivity in Australian public library service. Developments, drawbacks, and potentials are discussed, and differences between contracting out whole services as opposed to selected activities are examined. (AEF)
Descriptors: Costs, Foreign Countries, Government Libraries, Library Administration
Brockman, J. R. – 1984
Based on material obtained and observations made in 1982, this Australian study focuses on the British Library's inter-library comparison (ILC) project for academic libraries. The report is presented in five sections, the first of which is a brief introduction. The second section deals with the general concept of inter-organization comparison as a…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Efficiency
