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Costs and Their Assessment to Users of a Medical Library, Part I: An Overview of Services, Users, and Budgeting of a Medical Library.
Bres, E.; And Others – 1977
This study investigated ways in which the costs of a library's direct and indirect services can be equitably allocated to its heterogeneous group of institution users. It was conducted from October 1, 1974 to March 31, 1977. The final report is divided into four parts, each describing a separate issue. Part I discusses the general administrative…
Descriptors: Fees, Library Administration, Library Expenditures, Library Services
Costs and Their Assessment to Users of a Medical Library, Part II: Recovering Costs from Service Usage.
Bres, E.; And Others – 1977
Part II of the study describes a model for associating one portion of total library costs with use; the model's output is a set of charges that can be used to recover (justify) these usage-based costs. Algebraic formulations constructed and combined to form the model are a set of service charges that may vary by user type and recover out-of-pocket…
Descriptors: Fees, Library Administration, Library Expenditures, Library Services
Costs and Their Assessment to Users of a Medical Library, Part III: Allocating Fixed Joint Costs.
Bres, E.; And Others – 1977
Part III of the study describes a model for completing the cost assessment (justification) process by accounting for the fixed joint costs; a "fair" and equitable mechanism is developed in the context of game-theoretic approach. An n-person game is constructed in which the "players" are the institutions served by the library,…
Descriptors: Fees, Library Administration, Library Expenditures, Library Services
Costs and Their Assessment to Users of a Medical Library, Part IV: Differences in the Use of a Health Science Library by Various User Groups.
Bres, E.; And Others – 1977
Part IV is a summary analysis of sample and survey data collected to facilitate the structure of the cost assessment models and to find out which, if any, subgroups of HAM-TMC user population make more (or less) use of various library services. Sampling data were obtained from brief interviews and in-house files of various user institutions to…
Descriptors: Fees, Library Administration, Library Expenditures, Library Services
Serials Cancellation Projects: Necessary Evil or Collection Assessment Opportunity?
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Richards, Daniel T.; Prelec, Antonija – Journal of Library Administration, 1992
Discusses serials cancellations; reviews library collection assessment policies and reasons for assessment studies; describes a survey of academic health sciences libraries that examined serials cancellation projects, including the decision-making process, regional or national cooperation, and the methodology used; and explains a generic serials…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Decision Making, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Growth and Change in 67 Medical School Libraries, 1975-1989.
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Seibert, Warren F.; Kuenz, Marjorie A. – 1992
The analyses reported here on the growth and change of medical school libraries are based on the annual statistics of 67 U.S. and Canadian medical school libraries, 1975-89, and 4 primary statistics from "parent," main campus libraries, all of them members of the Association of Research Libraries. The results show that medical school…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Economic Impact, Foreign Countries, Higher Education