Scheduling, cost control, value analysis, quality control, and contract interfacing are the final steps in the project management method of bringing a project in on time and within budget. (Author)

Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, needed a library and an elementary school. Combining them into one facility reduced operational costs and saved over a half-million dollars in building costs. (Author/MLF)

Suggestions are offered on how to improve employees' attendance records. (Author)

A personal overview of the economics of computer use in information systems. (PF)

A simple computational model is used to predict the behavior of response time as a function of think time for different conditions of service loading. The economic implications are considered. (Author)

The direction and scope of deinstitutionalization in 75 public and 161 community residential programs for mentally retarded people in the Unites States were examined by analysis of current levels of expenditures, projected costs, efficacy of existing funding mechanisms, and identification of critical factors affecting cost variation. Results of a…

Described are procedures used in the location of a sample of individuals not responding to follow-up questionnaires, eleven years after they were originally interviewed in 1960 as 10th graders. The individuals in question were a subset of more than 400,000 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grade students used in Project TALENT's longitudinal study of the…

A central argument for the existence of the South Carolina Educational Television Network (ETV) follows an economic theme. In the last three years ETV has conducted 319 teleconferences to provide specialized training for 74,000 people. The use of teleconferences during that period of time has provided services that could have cost the state eight…

The issue presents four articles on autism. The first, "Current Issues in Programming for Autistic Children and Young Adults" by Bruce Balow, examines six issues which touch upon such aspects as definitions, identification, placement, treatment style, programs needed, cost effectiveness, and influence on policy and politics. The second…

In the third and final report of a series designed to develop unit time and costs for the major operations of the Technical Services Division of the Tucson Public Library, the Acquisitions Unit's activities are analyzed by means of self-recorded daily logs. Ordering, accounting, and receiving are performed in this area, and those functions are…

This is a summary of the procedures and outcomes of a study undertaken to develop alternative strategies for evaluating the competencies of library media personnel in competency-based programs. The study was prompted by a realization that, although competency-based programs for school library media specialists are increasingly being adopted by…

This paper describes an automated card catalog system, developed for the Dartmouth Regional Library in Nova Scotia, which uses records of selected fixed-length fields; it is proposed as a prototype for a system meeting the needs of a public library system with a collection size of about 100,000 items. The costs of operating a catalog system based…

This paper, addressed to school board members and financial officers, suggests seven ways to obtain the most out of every budget dollar allocated for employee fringe benefits, including hospital, surgical, medical, dental, disability, and death. The suggestions are to consider (1) self-funding of benefits, (2) eliminating the payment of insurance…