Economies of scale in polytechnic libraries  

Oleh:

Revill, Don

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Librarianship and Information Science vol. 10 no. 2 (2008), page 79-87.
Fulltext: 79.pdf (533.97KB)

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It is argued that polytechnic library services can seldom realize economies of scale. The scale of library provision increases within the educational hierarchy. Staff are employed who become specialists in obtaining resources. Sources of economies available to a firm such as horizontal or vertical integration or chenper materials prices are often denied libraries. Where libraries adopt other methods potentially able to produce economies (e.g. mechanization), costs appear to remain much the same or rise. Libraries can seldom achieve economies via competition, standardization, specialization or marketing. The greater complexity of stock in academic libraries, including non-book materials, and the presence of several sites makes economies of scale unlikely.

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