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Woodsworth, Anne; Williams, James F. Managing the Economics of Owning, Leasing and Contracting Out Information Services
Williston, Vermont, U.S.A. Ashgate Pub Co 1993 1857420187 / 9781857420180 Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine - Bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 204 pages. - 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. - Table of Contents List of contributors Preface Acknowledgements 1 Introduction 1 2 In-house information services 9 3 Information workers 30 4 Resources, services and delivery A Information resources 50 B Services and delivery 72 5 Information technologies 79 6 Shared or cooperative routes 101 7 Costs and charging strategies 132 8 Shaping core services in future 158 Information about contributors 185 List of abbreviations 192 Bibliography 193 Index 198
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