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Download full textMaceviciute, Elena; Borg, Martin; Kuzminiene, Ramune; Konrad, Katie – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2014
Introduction: Our aim is to compare the advantages and problems of e-book acquisition identified in research literature to those experienced by two Swedish university libraries. Method: A literature review was used to identify the main issues related to acquisition of e-books by academic libraries. The data for comparison were collected through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Electronic Libraries, Electronic Learning
PDF pending restorationAssociation of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Services. – 1994
The Systems and Procedures Exchange Center's (SPEC) Kits contain up-to-date information on the latest issues of concern to college and academic libraries and librarians today. This subject index to SPEC Kits covers all kits currently available from the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Office of Management Services. Under each subject…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Libraries, Higher Education, Indexes
Belanger, Charles H.; Lavallee, Lise – 1980
The steps involved in tailoring a periodical and monograph price index to a university library are examined, as are the difficulties involved in applying a simple methodology such as a price index when the data base has not been organized to play an active role in the decision-making process. The following topics are addressed: the shifting of…
Descriptors: Books, Budgeting, College Libraries, Cost Indexes
Lynden, Frederick C. – 1983
Replacing a January 1980 publication of the same title, this collection of cost tables and other documentation from library materials cost studies conducted by members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) or by library vendors contains excerpts from: (1) local cost studies conducted at Colorado State University, Indiana University, Iowa…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Books, Cost Indexes, Data Collection
Peer reviewedPrabha, Chandra; Ogden, John E. – Library Trends, 1994
Analyzes the impact of the rising cost of materials on academic libraries as reflected in members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). Highlights include total library expenditures; materials expenditures; comparisons with price indexes; and the impact of journal…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Budgeting, Comparative Analysis, Cost Indexes
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1980
This collection of documentation from library materials cost studies conducted by members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries in the United States and Canada contains 11 documents divided into the following sections: (1) methodologies and data collection worksheets from the University of California at Berkeley, the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Books, Budgeting, Budgets
