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| Title: | Cost analysis of automation in technical services |
| Author(s): | Ross, Ryburn M. |
| Subject(s): |
Libraries --Automation
Libraries --Economics Library science --Data processing Cost analysis |
| Abstract: | This paper has several purposes: (1) to determine the relationship of automation costs of technical services in a large research library to the total library resource allocations; (2) to describe Cornell University Libraries' history of automation efforts and the accompanying cost experiences; (3) to review a specific cost analysis for processing monographs in a large technical services group; (4) to review productivity measurement of library staff involved in processing; and (5) to propose some general management planning information techniques to measure the performance of technical services staff. |
| Issue Date: | 1976 |
| Publisher: | Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. |
| Citation Info: | In The economics of library automation : papers presented at the 1976 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, April 25-28, 1976, ed. J.L. Divilbiss. Urbana, Il: Graduate School of Library Science: 10-27. |
| Series/Report: | Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (13th : 1976) |
| Genre: | Conference Paper / Presentation |
| Type: | Text |
| Language: | English |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1073 |
| ISBN: | 0-87845-046-7 |
| ISSN: | 0069-4789 |
| Publication Status: | published or submitted for publication |
| Rights Information: | Copyright owned by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois 1977. |
| Date Available in IDEALS: | 2007-06-30 |