Re: Building collections in a bad economy

["Tony McSean" <tmcsean@hollar.co.uk>]

From: "Tony McSean" <tmcsean@hollar.co.uk>
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Re: Building collections in a bad economy

At the risk of stating the obvious, if you are going to be 
involved in ILLs on any scale it is vital to make sure you have 
current cost-per-item and marginal cost figures that reflect the 
true real cost of the service.  When I was involved in supplying 
80,000 items/year the cost calculations factored in management 
overhead, development investment, equipment depreciation and 
anything else we could think of.

You can't risk getting unwittingly into a situation where the 
more you supply or receive ILLs (in whatever form) the more 
budget trouble you get into.  Most senior librarians understand 
that, and I guess the others may soon have bags of time to learn.

Tony

Tony McSean
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