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Liu, Lewis G. – Library Trends, 2003
This empirical research examined scale economies of academic research libraries and developed a total cost function for estimating economies of scale. Suggests that libraries in general, and academic research libraries in particular, are information provision organizations that provide multiproducts and multiservices. Findings indicate that slight…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Economics
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Kuyper-Rushing, Lois – College & Research Libraries, 2002
Considers the decision that branch libraries, music libraries in particular, have struggled with concerning a centralized location in the main library versus a decentralized collection. Reports on a study of the Association of Research Libraries that investigated the location of music libraries, motivation for the location, degrees offered,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Branch Libraries, Budgets, Centralization
Heim, Kathleen M.; Kacena, Carolyn – Library Journal, 1979
Presents the rationale, method, results, analysis, and discussion of a survey of public libraries in the United States and Canada which asked for sex of director, director's salary, director's length of tenure, size of population served, per capita support, and beginning professional salary. This study extends work by Carpenter and Shearer (1972).…
Descriptors: Librarians, Library Administration, Library Directors, Library Expenditures
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Repp, Joan; Woods, Julia A. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1980
Presents a study of utilization of student employees at Bowling Green State University Library and the development of an allocation formula to provide proportional funding to tasks prioritized by relative operational importance. The study further produced an objective basis for reallocating resources from less essential to more essential tasks.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cost Effectiveness, Employees, Financial Support
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Packer, Donna – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2001
Examined the effect of an interdisciplinary Web-based citation database with full text, the ProQuest Research Library, on the Western State University library's acquisitions allocation plan. Used list price of full-text journals to calculate increases in acquisitions funding. A list of articles discussing formula allocation is appended.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Databases, Higher Education, Library Acquisition
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Davis, Philip M. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2002
Identifies core journals in the life sciences for Cornell University researchers by analyzing the frequency of Cornell-authored citations in Biosis Previews between 1996 and 2001. Discusses distribution, Bradford's Law of Scatter, the 80/20 Rule, and prices, and recommends this methodology to provide guidance on which titles to purchase for…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Biological Sciences, Citation Analysis, Electronic Journals
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Revill, D. H. – Journal of Documentation, 1981
Discusses concept of a national library service, and compares expenditures of the British Library with public libraries and polytechnic libraries. Issues related to the British Library's location, the services of its Lending Division, work supported by the Bibliographic Services Division, and images of the Reference Division are addressed. Listed…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Foreign Countries, Information Seeking, Interlibrary Loans
Borkowski, Casimir; And Others – Library Journal, 1981
Urges library administrators to reject the findings of the Kent Study concerning the curtailment of library acquisitions and the sharing of library materials. The Pittsburgh Senate Library Committee raises serious questions of flawed methodology in the conduct of the study. Seven references are listed. (RAA)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bias, Cost Effectiveness, Library Acquisition
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Werking, Richard Hume – College and Research Libraries, 1991
Describes results of a survey that was conducted to compile statistical data on collection growth and library expenditures in academic libraries. Data from liberal arts college libraries are compared with data from members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), library statistics are discussed, and significant trends are described. (32…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Library Collection Development
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MacDougall, A. F.; And Others – Journal of Documentation, 1990
Discussion of operational effectiveness in libraries focuses on a modeling approach that was used to compare the effectiveness of a local interlibrary loan system with using a national system, the British Library Document Supply Centre (BLDSC). Cost figures and surveys of five academic libraries are described. (six references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Costs, Foreign Countries
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Paine, F., Ed.; Paine, Nancy – Journalism Educator, 1987
Indicates that the (1) largest journalism libraries employ professional librarians, (2) size of acquisition budgets does not correlate with school enrollment, and (3) average library spends two-thirds of is budget on newspapers and periodicals and only one-third on books. Provides useful guidelines for designing a collection development policy for…
Descriptors: Journalism, Librarians, Library Acquisition, Library Collection Development
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Zehery, Mohamed H. – International Information & Library Review, 1997
This study of state university libraries in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates provides information on library organization and analysis of collections, services, staffing, budgeting, expenditures, automation, and information technology. Suggests further research is needed in collections, services and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Budgeting, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Cooper, Michael D. – Library Quarterly, 1991
Updates a storage cost model for academic library collections by examining how changes in construction costs and circulation costs affect the choices of an alternative book storage strategy. Results show that the most economical alternative for a large range of construction and circulation cost alternatives is to convert existing ground space to…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Construction Costs, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making
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Crotts, Joe – College & Research Libraries, 1999
This investigation at California State University, Chico seeks to identify those variables that prove indicative of the demand for monographs by subject. Analyzes interrelationships among circulation, expenditure, and enrollment by subject and develops a model for allocating subject funding based on circulation statistics. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Enrollment, Higher Education, Library Circulation
Miller, Marilyn L.; Shontz, Marilyn L. – School Library Journal, 1998
Looks at 141 high-performing library media centers, providing statistics on grade levels and regions served, services offered, collection size and local expenditures, expenditures from all sources, librarian/teacher instructional planning by grade and service level, principal communication and service level, program services and communication, and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Learning Resources Centers, Librarian Teacher Cooperation, Library Collections
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