Managing the Economics of Owning, Leasing and Contracting Out Information Services Routledge Revivals Series
Auteurs : Woodsworth Anne, Williams II James F.
First published in 1993, the purpose of this book is to identify and describe the most important factors that must be considered in making decisions about the optimal ways to provide access to information ? in short, the best way to use the humans, the machines, and the intangible resources known as information, particularly at the organizational level.
In recent years executives have begun to outsource computing and telecommunications functions, primarily to control costs. Traditional libraries and information centres have been disbanded in favour of service contracts or outright leasing of staff. Both the public and private sectors are examining their information service operations from the point of view of cost effectiveness. Decisions about owning versus leasing of information are being made daily. Decision-makers are finding that they must deal differently with funding and budgeting of information systems and libraries from their earlier practice.
New paradigms for these service functions already exist. Not only have corporations and governments begun to contract out entire information service operations, but libraries themselves have begun to consider the costs, effectiveness, and implications of outsourcing some of their operations and services.
This book provides a framework for decision-makers to view and review information services within their organizations. Entire units, components of libraries and information centres are defined and untangled so that the widest variety of organizations can analyse their own environments. Each chapter is accompanied by comments from a broad range of experts in the information field.
1. Introduction. 2. In-house Information Services. 3. Information Workers. 4. Resources, Services and Delivery. 5. Information Technologies. 6. Shared or Cooperative Routes. 7. Costs and Charging Strategies. 8. Shaping Core Services in Future.
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Information Service Center; Information Service Organizations; information delivery; Information Services; information service operations; Cd Rom Product; fiscal issues; National Libraries; library services; Delivery Systems; economic model; Research Libraries; Information Centers; OCLC Database; Information Brokers; Information Containers; Interlibrary Lending; Corporate Information Centers; Vice Versa; Information Workers; Information Professionals; Information Resources; NREN; Inter-institutional Cooperation; CIO Position; William Arms; Cost Recovery Schemes; Fee Based Information Services; Eric Document Reproduction Service; Cd Rom Database