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Cost analysis and reporting as a basis for decisions

Price, Douglas S.

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Title
Cost analysis and reporting as a basis for decisions
Author(s)
Price, Douglas S.
Issue Date
1976
Keyword(s)
  • Libraries --Automation
  • Libraries --Economics
  • Library science --Data processing
  • Cost analysis
Abstract
To avoid any aura of misrepresentation, let me remind you at the outset that I am not a librarian. My background is in information systems, and when I discuss specifics of cost analysis a bit later, most of the examples and techniques will be drawn from that background. However, I would also remind you perhaps unnecessarily that libraries are information systems. They are the oldest, the most widespread and the broadest in scope of all information systems, and while they differ markedly from what we generally identify as information systems, their basic purpose is the same and there are many parallels and similarities. Because you are the librarians, I will, on the whole, have to leave it to you to translate what I have to say into the library frame of reference, although I have been told by many librarians over the last five years that it can and should be done.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (13th : 1976)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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Copyright owned by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois 1977.

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1976: The Economics of Library Automation PRIMARY
13th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1976). Edited by J.L. Divilbiss