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Gabriel, Michael – Library Journal, 1974
Keeping back issues of serials on microfiche solves cost and storage problems. (PF)
Descriptors: Costs, Library Collections, Library Cooperation, Library Expenditures
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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
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1979
A 1979 Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) survey investigated the development, management, and staffing of microform collections in Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member institutions. Survey results indicate that the major types of microform holdings are government publications, large publishers' sets, and back runs of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Facility Planning, Higher Education, Library Collections
Fussler, Herman H. – 1974
An attempt is made to relate technological potentials and limitations to some of the major current trends, problems, and objectives of the library. Attention is focused on the large, university, research-oriented library since it is here that one finds the most difficult resource access and bibliographic control problems. A synopsis is presented…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Computers, Cost Effectiveness, Facsimile Transmission