Year: 1993
Type: article
Abstract: As a result of organizational changes in the National Health Service (NHS) there is a need for a coherent costing model for NHS libraries, particularly for the smaller libraries based in postgraduate medical centres. One possible model is functional cost analysis, whereby all costs are assigned to library functions representing services to users, such as loans from stock, interlibrary loans, enquiry services, etc. Using data from a 1991 survey of postgraduate centre-based libraries in the North West Thames (NWT) Region of the NHS, the feasibility and appropriateness of functional cost analysis is examined.
Source: Health Libraries Review
Authors: LOUISE JONES, DAVE NICHOLAS
Institution: London Metropolitan University
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1995605573