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Peer reviewedLiu, Lewis G. – Library Trends, 2003
This empirical research examined scale economies of academic research libraries and developed a total cost function for estimating economies of scale. Suggests that libraries in general, and academic research libraries in particular, are information provision organizations that provide multiproducts and multiservices. Findings indicate that slight…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Economics
Peer reviewedEllis-Newman, Jennifer – Library Trends, 2003
The rationale for using Activity-Based Costing (ABC) in a library is to allocate indirect costs to products and services based on the factors that most influence them. This paper discusses the benefits of ABC to library managers and explains the steps involved in implementing ABC in the user services area of an Australian academic library.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Costs, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Peer reviewedHewitt, Joe A.; Panitch, Judith M. – Library Trends, 2003
Reviews the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) activities regarding special collections. Highlights include local and collaborative approaches; budget pressures; access to special collections; digitization programs; recruiting qualified staff; results of a survey of ARL special collections; and the need for ongoing statistics for special…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Budgets, Higher Education
