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Chan, Tak Cheung – American School Board Journal, 2001
A survey of 145 schools found that all had experimented with innovative purchasing approaches. Many used electronic methods, such as credit-card, fast-track requisition (most popular), bidding and purchasing, and data interchange. Results suggest that nonelectronic innovations (just-in-time, cooperative, direct, and consortium leverage purchasing)…
Descriptors: Bids, Consortia, Cooperation, Efficiency
Download full textDole, Wanda; And Others – 1996
In 1989, the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) introduced a microcomputer-based evaluation tool called the Collection Analysis CD. In 1993, the SUNY Stony Brook Libraries used this tool to measure its collections against those of 27 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) peer libraries and of a "mythical" peer group. In 1996, the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Consortia, Data Analysis
Patterson, Lewis D. – 1979
Results of a two-year study of the cost effectiveness of cooperative programs operated by voluntary consortia of colleges and universities are reported. The findings are demonstrated in such a way that the potential benefits of such programs can be more widely understood. Six consortia were studied, including a consortium of three Catholic liberal…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Church Related Colleges, Consortia, Cooperative Programs
