Technical Services in libraries traditionally has
been a costly, labour-intensive operation and over
burdened with redundancies. Automation has increased
productivity. With same number of staff more jobs
can be accomplished and they can be done
better.There can be more efficiency as well as more
output with the application of computer. The study
of time and cost analysis of technical services is
necessary in order to streamlining the services
particularly due to ever increasing number of
reading materials and their cost on acquisition,
technical processing and preparation for use. In
this book, attempt has been made to identify the
time and cost on every unit of work of all technical
services. At the same time, manpower required to
perform these jobs has also been ascertained which
would be useful guidelines for library managers.This
professional reference will be useful to all LIS
professionals concerned with technical services
regardless of their affiliation. This book is a
guide to forecast, plan, implement for successful
management of library technical services.
been a costly, labour-intensive operation and over
burdened with redundancies. Automation has increased
productivity. With same number of staff more jobs
can be accomplished and they can be done
better.There can be more efficiency as well as more
output with the application of computer. The study
of time and cost analysis of technical services is
necessary in order to streamlining the services
particularly due to ever increasing number of
reading materials and their cost on acquisition,
technical processing and preparation for use. In
this book, attempt has been made to identify the
time and cost on every unit of work of all technical
services. At the same time, manpower required to
perform these jobs has also been ascertained which
would be useful guidelines for library managers.This
professional reference will be useful to all LIS
professionals concerned with technical services
regardless of their affiliation. This book is a
guide to forecast, plan, implement for successful
management of library technical services.