Library fee-based information services: financial considerations
Abstract
Fee-based services in libraries offer research and document delivery services to non-primary clientele on a cost-recovery basis. Highlights services at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Rice University and Purdue University. Explores the major financial considerations involved in starting a new fee-based service, including planning, staffing, pricing and marketing. Relates several special opportunities to which the libraries could not have responded without having had an existing fee-based service with experienced staff in place. Also examines Internet opportunities.
Keywords
fee-based information services, financial aspects, business
Published in:
Bottom Line 2002, 15 (1): 5017
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Date of this Version
2002