Fee-Based Services in Sci-Tech Libraries

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Fee-Based Services in Sci-Tech Libraries is written by Ellis Mount and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1317951328 (ISBN 10) and 9781317951322 (ISBN 13).

This timely and important book explores how fee-based services have developed in various types of sci-tech libraries. The authoritative contributors focus on the current changing financial aspects of the sci-tech library operation and clarify for the reader how these changes have brought about conditions in which traditional methods of funding are no longer adequate. What new options are open and how they are best being applied in today’s sci-tech libraries is fully and clearly explained and illustrated. Topics explored include cost allocation and cost recovery, fees for computer searching, and the relationship between sci-tech libraries and serials agents.