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Recent Developments in the Provision of Public Library Services in the United Kingdom.
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Paulin, Lorna – Library Quarterly, 1978
Comments on changes in the public library in the United Kingdom due to local government reorganization and recurring financial crises, and discusses the implications of networking and technological innovation. (CWM)
Descriptors: Financial Problems, Governmental Structure, Library Automation, Library Networks
Economic Characteristics of the Library Storage Problem.
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Stayner, Richard A. – Library Quarterly, 1983
A model based on storage and retrieval costs that determines efficient allocation of materials to different storage regimes in academic libraries is developed. An economically rational basis for determining role of several alternative storage methods which distinguish among materials by expected level of use is offered. Nineteen references are…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cost Effectiveness, Graphs, Higher Education
Using Article Photocopy Data in Bibliographic Models for Journal Collection Management.
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Cooper, Michael D.; McGregor, George F. – Library Quarterly, 1994
Describes a method of cost-per-use analysis for individual journal articles to facilitate journal selection, deselection, and retention decisions. Conducted in a biotechnology library, the study was based on 491 users who requested more than 48,000 article photocopies over 3 years. Information on user behavior and journal use patterns is provided.…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Biotechnology, Comparative Analysis, Corporate Libraries
Libraries and the Growth of Knowledge.
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Swanson, Don R. – Library Quarterly, 1980
Explores issues related to the role of libraries in the diffusion of knowledge and offers a critique of proposals for a national information policy. Twenty-seven references are cited. (FM)
Descriptors: Diffusion, Evolution, Improvement, Information Dissemination
Libraries and the Growth of Knowledge.
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Swanson, Don R. – Library Quarterly, 1979
Examines current problems and future roles of libraries in facilitating the growth of knowledge, and discusses the regulative role of price mechanism, autonomy, and centralism, given the role of criticism and the problem-solving nature of research. Issues discussed are examined against national library and information services planning proposals.…
Descriptors: Centralization, Futures (of Society), Information Retrieval, Information Services
Mathematical Programming Models and Methods for the Journal Selection Problem
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Glover, Fred; Klingman, Darwin – Library Quarterly, 1972
New model formulations and solution methods are given for the Journal Selection Problem. The results are developed in a framework that can also accommodate problems with a somewhat different structure than the Journal Selection Problem, thus providing new solution strategies for these problems as well. (32 references) (Author/NH)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Library Material Selection, Library Planning, Mathematical Models
Dissemination of the Public Library Planning Process among Smaller Libraries.
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Pungitore, Verna L. – Library Quarterly, 1992
Reports on a study of the diffusion of the Public Library Association's planning process. Two surveys are described: one of state library development agencies that determined techniques used to disseminate planning information; and one of small public libraries that determined the extent to which they had received and were using the planning…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Adoption (Ideas), Analysis of Variance, Correlation