Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society (한국도서관정보학회지)

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Evaluation of the Economies of Public Libraries in Metropolitan Cities

대도시 공공도서관의 경제성 평가

  • Published : 1999.12.01
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Abstract

This study is to evaluate the economies of scale of the public libraries in metropolitan cities. The results of the regression analysis confirm that for all samples of libraries there is diseconomies of scale in library operations (${\Sigma}b_{n}$≒6.14∼10.91). Therefore, all the types of public libraries should be improve productivity by user-based collection development, increasing circulation turnover rate, activation of in-library use, strengthening mobile library services, rational planning of services area, development of reading programs connected with the curriculum, a new branch library plans, etc.

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