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Publication date: 1 February 1990

Sharon Bonk and Dennis Pilling

Examines issues raised during a project, carried out by Coopers andLybrand Associates on behalf of the British Library Document SupplyCentre, which looked at interlibrary lending…

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Examines issues raised during a project, carried out by Coopers and Lybrand Associates on behalf of the British Library Document Supply Centre, which looked at interlibrary lending (ILL) costs and compiled an economic model of the ILL process. Discusses the calculation of existing costs as well as costs after hypothetical changes in ILL. Presents a data collection methodology and computer based model which should enable librarians to collect and analyse data for their own use whilst adding to the main database.

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Interlending & Document Supply, vol. 18 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-1615

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Publication date: 1 March 1996

Emma Jones

Reports on the OCLC Users’ Council meeting of February 5‐7, 1996. Issues discussed included nominations for the board of trustees, the OCLC president’s report, the Users’ Council…

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Reports on the OCLC Users’ Council meeting of February 5‐7, 1996. Issues discussed included nominations for the board of trustees, the OCLC president’s report, the Users’ Council executive committee report and reports on users of electronic information. Also under discussion were a number of strategies for the future.

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OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives, vol. 12 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1065-075X

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Publication date: 1 January 1992

Margaret Barwick

Discusses organisation, automation and performance measurementaspects of interlibrary loan department management, and developments incharging for and the preservation of ILL…

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Discusses organisation, automation and performance measurement aspects of interlibrary loan department management, and developments in charging for and the preservation of ILL items. Highlights the problems of ILL in developing countries, and changes and developments in the rest of the world. Considers electronic document delivery systems, the effect of technological advances on libraries and the “Burgundy effect”.

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Interlending & Document Supply, vol. 20 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-1615

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Publication date: 1 March 1991

Margaret M Barwick

Surveys efforts towards co‐operation in interlending withincountries including Hungary, Italy, Nigeria, Ghana, Germany and Latvia.Discusses barriers to European interlending and a…

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Surveys efforts towards co‐operation in interlending within countries including Hungary, Italy, Nigeria, Ghana, Germany and Latvia. Discusses barriers to European interlending and a formula for the size of the European interlending market is given. Interlending protocol and advances in facsimile transmission are described. A methodology of estimating interlending costs, DOCMATCH II, is introduced.

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Interlending & Document Supply, vol. 19 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-1615

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Publication date: 1 February 1989

M.E.L. Jacob

If you ask most people about cost and price they believe they understand exactly what is meant. Cost is what you pay for an item and price is what the seller asks — and for most…

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If you ask most people about cost and price they believe they understand exactly what is meant. Cost is what you pay for an item and price is what the seller asks — and for most buyers the transactions are the same. However, cost and price are different to different players in a transaction. There is the cost of creating, developing, producing, marketing, supporting, distributing, storing, and selling an item. There is the retail or list, wholesale, sale, or discounted price at which the item is sold and which the purchaser pays. It sounds simple, but in reality it is a complex process involving a high degree of subjective judgment.

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The Bottom Line, vol. 2 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0888-045X

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Publication date: 1 April 1991

Donna Bausch and Nancy Bausch

The task of the financial manager of a library is a formidable one. Wacht defines a financial manager as a person who manages the resources of an economic entity for the purposes…

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The task of the financial manager of a library is a formidable one. Wacht defines a financial manager as a person who manages the resources of an economic entity for the purposes of influencing the future outcome of its operations. The financial manager plays the major role in planning and measuring the organization's needs for funds, raising the necessary funds, and making certain that the funds acquired are properly employed. A financial manager must also estimate the future cash flow associated with individual projects, in addition to the funds necessary for the total operation of a library. Other duties include the evaluation of prospective new investments and programs on the organization's operations.

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The Bottom Line, vol. 4 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0888-045X

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Publication date: 1 June 1994

Helle Bjarno

Outlines the need for performance measures and costings when one has todecide how to supply documents as quickly as possible at the lowest costto both the user and the library…

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Outlines the need for performance measures and costings when one has to decide how to supply documents as quickly as possible at the lowest cost to both the user and the library. There is an increasing awareness of the implications of electronic document delivery for ILL. The most advanced libraries are beginning to use these services as an alternative or supplement to the traditional well‐known services. Describes a model that enables one to record both the costs of the tasks performed and the performance – such as speed of delivery, fill rate and so forth. By combining these different sets of measures the library in question will be able to decide which services are the most beneficial under the given circumstances. The model has been developed in co‐operation with some Danish university libraries. The prototype has been developed as an application in a relational database.

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Interlending & Document Supply, vol. 22 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-1615

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Publication date: 1 March 1991

Primoz Juznic

Describes the use made of the interlending services in a country“with a high level of political conflict and nationaldiversity”. Examines areas of science and politics in the…

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Describes the use made of the interlending services in a country “with a high level of political conflict and national diversity”. Examines areas of science and politics in the former Yugoslavia, journal collections, automation and costs. Concludes that standardisation at the highest level is required and that library co‐operation in the former Yugoslavia can “rise above the problems caused by the hostilities in the political environment”.

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Interlending & Document Supply, vol. 19 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-1615

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Publication date: 1 March 1986

Few issues in recent times have so provoked debate and dissention within the library field as has the concept of fees for user services. The issue has aroused the passions of our…

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Few issues in recent times have so provoked debate and dissention within the library field as has the concept of fees for user services. The issue has aroused the passions of our profession precisely because its roots and implications extend far beyond the confines of just one service discipline. Its reflection is mirrored in national debates about the proper spheres of the public and private sectors—in matters of information generation and distribution, certainly, but in a host of other social ramifications as well, amounting virtually to a debate about the most basic values which we have long assumed to constitute the very framework of our democratic and humanistic society.

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Collection Building, vol. 8 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0160-4953

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Publication date: 1 January 1992

Paul Outlet. International organisation and dissemination of knowledge: selected essays of Paul Otlet translated and edited with an introduction by W. Boyd Rayward. Amsterdam…

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Paul Outlet. International organisation and dissemination of knowledge: selected essays of Paul Otlet translated and edited with an introduction by W. Boyd Rayward. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1990. xi, 256 pp. $115.50/Dfl.225. 0 444 88678 8. (fid 684) Paul Otlet was born in Brussels in August 1868 and died there in December 1944. A lawyer who grew to be ‘bored with the law’ and became absorbed with books, libraries and information, he is probably principally remembered in connection with the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC).

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 48 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0022-0418

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