The Bottom Line: Volume 10 Issue 4

Subjects:

Table of contents

Charging for printouts

Betsy Park

As more material is available electronically, librarians are beginning to realize the hidden costs of printing. Users want to access information electronically and take a hard…

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One university’s experience starting fee‐based information systems: two case studies from UNLV

Matthew Simon

Information brokerages are operated by entrepreneurs or under the aegis of larger organizations. The UNLV library has established two such services. In spite of careful planning…

229

What does it really cost? Allocating indirect costs

Herbert Snyder, Elisabeth Davenport

Better managerial control in terms of decision making and understanding the total costs of a system or service result from allocating indirect costs. Allocation requires a…

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Vendors and academic libraries: development and change

Matthew Nauman

Provides an overview of how vendors such as Blackwells have developed services that meet the changes taking place in academic libraries and recommends ways vendors and publishers…

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Alternative funding for libraries: a plan for success

Kathryn Covier Hannah

Libraries have barely begun to exploit alternate funding potential. Provides essential information and outlines the steps for planning using a team approach. Library staff and…

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Cover of The Bottom Line

ISSN:

0888-045X

Online date, start – end:

1988

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Professor Susanne Durst