Attribution of Library Costs

Costs in Digital Library Databases

Digital libraries involve various types of data like text, audio , images and video. The data objects are typically very large and of the order of hundreds and thousands of kilobytes. In a digital library, these data objects are distributed in a wide area network. Retrieving large data objects in a wide area network has a high response time. We have conducted experiments to measure the communic...

Allocation of Costs for Electronic Products in Academic Library Consortia

As the prevalence of consortial licenses for electronic products increases, consortia face decisions about how to allocate costs for these products among participating libraries.Although there are a number of possible formulae for this, some are problematic in that they result in inequitable cost allocations in certain circumstances. Several methods for apportioning costs within consortia are d...

Attribution of Health Care Costs to Diseases: Does the Method Matter?

Cost of illness (COI) studies focus on allocating health expenditures to a comprehensive set of diseases. A variety of techniques have been used to allocate spending to diseases. In this paper, we compare spending attributed to diseases using three approaches: one based on the principal diagnosis listed on each encounter’s claim, a second based on all diagnoses listed on the encounter, and a th...

Identify the components of appointing library managers

Purpose – Libraries as one of the most important scientific, educational, research, social and cultural centers have an effective role in the development of information, awareness and human knowledge that the realization of their goals requires specialized and experienced managers to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of libraries. Is. But the goals of libraries will not be possible with...

Performance attribution