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King, Donald W. – Library Trends, 1979
Economic considerations of user charges are presented along with economic principles and implications of charging for specific library materials and services. Alternative pricing policies and their implications are described, and, to illustrate the complexity and subtle effects of charging, a numerical example for interlibrary loans is also given.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrative Policy, Economics, Fees
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Feng, Y. T. – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1979
Statement goals for formal collection development policies should include improved library services development. While such statements should be dynamic, and help define the total objectives of the institution, they should provide the necessary rationale for selection rather than serving as a substitute for book selection. (Author/MBR)
Descriptors: Development, Libraries, Library Collections, Library Expenditures
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DeGennaro, Richard – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1981
Practical advice is offered on managing libraries during a time of declining resources. Librarians are urged to set aside the extravagant and empty rhetoric of the 60s and 70s and take a more realistic view of collections and services for users during the austere 80s. (Author/RAA)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Librarians, Library Administration, Library Collections
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Karl, Jean E. – Journal of Youth Services in Libraries, 1995
Presents a history of children's book publishing that focuses on past, current, and future trends and reviews how these trends affect library budgets and services. Highlights include an examination of elements that have affected children's book publishing and sales and a discussion of the creation of Children's Book Week, an effort to publish…
Descriptors: Budgets, Childrens Literature, Futures (of Society), Library Expenditures
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Budd, John M.; And Others – RQ, 1991
Examines interlibrary loan (ILL) charges for photocopied material at two academic libraries, the University of Arizona and the University of Nevada, Reno. Statistics were reported for separate academic units to determine which were the most active users and which were charged the most, and recommendations are made for dealing with ILL charges.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cost Effectiveness, Higher Education, Interlibrary Loans
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California State Library, Sacramento. – 1979
A financial survey views the net effect of California's Proposition 13 as effectively lowering financial support of libraries 25 percent. After three years, this reduction in income has resulted in a 22 percent drop in the number of library outlets, a 23 percent reduction in operating hours, and an 18 percent loss in library staffing. Funds for…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Financial Support, Library Expenditures, Library Services
Buchman, James H.; Byrnes, Jane, Ed. – 1990
Addressing both positive and negative issues associated with adapting telefacsimile technology to meet library service needs, this guide provides basic information about the technology while illustrating how librarians have begun to incorporate it into their work processes. The following topics are covered: (1) the definition of telefacsimile and…
Descriptors: Costs, Electronic Equipment, Facsimile Transmission, Guidelines
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Taylor, Raymond G., Jr. – Information Technology and Libraries, 1987
Presents a model that calculates the conditions under which a library may adopt a highly service-oriented online catalog access policy at minimum additional cost. The use of arrival rates, service rates, and queueing calculations to arrive at a cost-effective policy is explained. (Author/CLB)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Library Expenditures, Library Policy, Library Services
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Budd, John M. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1989
Asserts that, although many arguments in favor of user fees for library services are based on economics, little economic benefit is actually gained by levying charges for some services. A microeconomics model that has been used to demonstrate the benefits of user fees is critiqued, and the issue of accountability is discussed. (23 references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Accountability, Economics, Higher Education
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Metz, Paul – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1988
Discusses the need for research libraries to develop a greater sense of financial accountability, both from a moral standpoint and to provide better services. Topics covered include areas where cost benefit tradeoffs have been neglected, possible consequences of not becoming accountable, and the debate over user fees. (12 references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Accountability, Budgeting, Cost Effectiveness
Stoffle, Carla – Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, 1991
Discussion of new developments in library/information services and the influences of technological and societal factors focuses on funding considerations. Topics discussed include budget preparation, allocation, monitoring, and evaluation; and alternative sources of funding, including leveraging, grants, fundraising and development, fees and…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Entrepreneurship, Fees, Financial Support
Cummings, Martin M. – Library Administration & Management, 1989
Argues that librarians need to be concerned with cost analysis of library functions and services because, in the allocation of resources, decision makers will favor library managers who demonstrate understanding of the relationships between costs and productive outputs. Factors that should be included in a reliable scheme for cost accounting are…
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgets, Cost Effectiveness, Financial Support
McCarthy, Paul – Library Journal, 1994
Discusses ways in which academic libraries are responding to rising costs of serials. Topics addressed include pricing by publishers; the effect of journal cancellations on research activities; interlibrary loans and document delivery services; coordinated cancelling; electronic journals; and experiences at the University of Arizona. (LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Costs, Higher Education, Interlibrary Loans
Commission on Preservation and Access, Washington, DC. – 1989
Intended to stimulate further thinking on the part of the community of scholars who must have a voice in selection strategies, this report addresses: (1) the distinction between preservation (saving the content of a brittle book) and conservation (saving the original item); (2) differences in the needs and objectives of preservation across the…
Descriptors: Archives, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Library Cooperation
Nicholls, Paul Travis – Laserdisk Professional, 1990
Briefly discusses six issues related to the use of CD-ROM in libraries and provides sources of information on each issue. The issues discussed are pricing and costs; user preferences for CD-ROM; networking as a means of meeting high demand for CD-ROM; media options; strategic planning to meet demands; and bibliographic instruction. (10 references)…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Cost Effectiveness, Library Expenditures, Library Instruction
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