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McGrath, William E. – Information Processing and Management, 1978
The purpose of this paper was to determine the relationship between the characteristics of academic disciplines such as hard or soft subject, pure or applied, life or nonlife; and the number of books charged out of an academic library by students. (Author/KP)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Intellectual Disciplines, Library Circulation, Library Materials

Funk, Robert – Information Processing and Management, 1976
Project for economically restructuring the working process and planning book processing in central university libraries in the Federal Republic of Germany. (Author/KP)
Descriptors: Cataloging, College Libraries, Economic Research, Library Planning

Alabi, G. A. – Information Processing and Management, 1985
Describes study of manual and experimental automated circulation systems in a university library in Nigeria. Data were collected for eight circulation activities in order to calculate the direct labor costs of circulating a book on each system. Automated system's book circulation costs were higher although direct labor costs were less. (MBR)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Costs