Library Economic Metrics: Examples of the Comparison of Electronic and Print Journal Collections and Collection Services.
Year: 2003
Type: article
Abstract: A M E W O R K of library economic metrics including service input and output, performance, usage, effectiveness, outcomes, impact, and cost and benefit comparisons.Examples of these measures are given for comparison of library electronic and print collections and collection services based on a recent cost finding study at Drexel University where the library has converted almost entirely to an electronic journal collection.These data are complemented with recent readership surveys of scientists at Drexel University, University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and members of the American Astronomical Society which describe changing information-seeking patterns and use of library electronic and print collections. BACKGROUNDThe introduction of the World Wide Web, electronic publishing, and digital library initiatives has had profound and continuing impact on libraries of all types.The emerging technologies have caused libraries, their funders, and their users to rethink what libraries are and how libraries can best serve their constituents.Sentiments have ranged from the extreme opinions that libraries will no longer be necessary, to explanations as to why the Web is not a library and that the new technologies will actually strength-
Language: English
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: University of Pittsburgh
OpenAlex ID: W2151307074