Abstract:People who produce something notable for future generations during their lives often have collections of documents and artifacts with potential cultural heritage value, but such collections can be lost forever just as easily as preserved and enjoyed by future generations. This paper reports on five case studies of significant individuals’ collections to explore how such individuals and their families value and manage their collections, the decisions they make and challenges they face in doing so, and what effects these and other challenges may have on the transference of their collections to preservation institutions. We found that family bonds play a significant role when deciding what to do with a collection, as does having the awareness, skills, and support to organize collections and negotiate with libraries, archives, and museums. Participants viewed personal collections as proof of their professional identities and as having valuable storytelling potential. However, the locus of responsibility for safeguarding personal collections of significant individuals remains unclear. The paper outlines how to more effectively organize personal collections and protect them from being lost and contributes to closing a knowledge gap at the intersection of several areas of information science, namely information behavior, personal information management, and cultural heritage management.
{"title":"Personal Collections and Personal Information Management in the Family Context","authors":"Maja Krtalić, J. Dinneen, C. Liew, A. Goulding","doi":"10.1353/lib.2021.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2021.0020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:People who produce something notable for future generations during their lives often have collections of documents and artifacts with potential cultural heritage value, but such collections can be lost forever just as easily as preserved and enjoyed by future generations. This paper reports on five case studies of significant individuals’ collections to explore how such individuals and their families value and manage their collections, the decisions they make and challenges they face in doing so, and what effects these and other challenges may have on the transference of their collections to preservation institutions. We found that family bonds play a significant role when deciding what to do with a collection, as does having the awareness, skills, and support to organize collections and negotiate with libraries, archives, and museums. Participants viewed personal collections as proof of their professional identities and as having valuable storytelling potential. However, the locus of responsibility for safeguarding personal collections of significant individuals remains unclear. The paper outlines how to more effectively organize personal collections and protect them from being lost and contributes to closing a knowledge gap at the intersection of several areas of information science, namely information behavior, personal information management, and cultural heritage management.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":"70 1","pages":"149 - 179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45826968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Early literacy resource provision represents a significant aspect of public library services for children and their families. However, research in this area of librarianship, although growing, has not kept pace. In this paper, two veteran children’s librarians, who are now both emerging early literacy scholars, collaborate on a reexamination of a small segment of existing data in order to demonstrate the affordances of returning to data with another theoretical lens, and doing what they refer to as an “alternate reading.” By tracing the findings that emerge from both of their theoretical lenses, specifically, Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological systems theory and Brandt and Clinton’s literacy-in-action, the authors demonstrate the strengths of such collaborations with their chosen theories. They show that using these two different theoretical lenses on the same data allows for other possible meanings to emerge and reveals other threads to follow. These alternate readings lead to deeper understandings of the data and point to other potential areas of research. In an under-studied field such as early literacy in libraries, the authors believe this dual-lens approach to data analysis may inspire other researchers to draw on disparate theories when studying early literacy in public libraries.
{"title":"Theorizing Early Literacy in the Public Library","authors":"Tess Prendergast, Karen Sharkey","doi":"10.1353/lib.2021.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2021.0023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Early literacy resource provision represents a significant aspect of public library services for children and their families. However, research in this area of librarianship, although growing, has not kept pace. In this paper, two veteran children’s librarians, who are now both emerging early literacy scholars, collaborate on a reexamination of a small segment of existing data in order to demonstrate the affordances of returning to data with another theoretical lens, and doing what they refer to as an “alternate reading.” By tracing the findings that emerge from both of their theoretical lenses, specifically, Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological systems theory and Brandt and Clinton’s literacy-in-action, the authors demonstrate the strengths of such collaborations with their chosen theories. They show that using these two different theoretical lenses on the same data allows for other possible meanings to emerge and reveals other threads to follow. These alternate readings lead to deeper understandings of the data and point to other potential areas of research. In an under-studied field such as early literacy in libraries, the authors believe this dual-lens approach to data analysis may inspire other researchers to draw on disparate theories when studying early literacy in public libraries.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":"70 1","pages":"239 - 255"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43716591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In this article, I describe what a practices approach offers to the study of both information and family. I present findings from an empirical study analyzing the intertwining of information and family in the work of “keeping track” in the family context. Findings highlight three interrelated and overlapping ways that the information practices family members engage in both “do” family and define family membership. First, family members may be the object of information practices: keeping track of family. Second, family members might be the audience for information practices: keeping track for family. Finally, family members may engage in collaborative family-related information practices: keeping track with family. Information practices such as keeping track enact family practices and reveal them, both to family members and to outsiders. Looking at the intersection of information and family practices helps information studies scholars to reflect on family life as a context within which information practices take place and prompts us to explore questions to better understand the situatedness of information practices within particular contexts. For information professionals, this work provides insight into the complexity of people’s everyday life information practices.
{"title":"Keeping Track of Family: Family Practices and Information Practices","authors":"Pamela J. McKenzie","doi":"10.1353/lib.2021.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2021.0016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this article, I describe what a practices approach offers to the study of both information and family. I present findings from an empirical study analyzing the intertwining of information and family in the work of “keeping track” in the family context. Findings highlight three interrelated and overlapping ways that the information practices family members engage in both “do” family and define family membership. First, family members may be the object of information practices: keeping track of family. Second, family members might be the audience for information practices: keeping track for family. Finally, family members may engage in collaborative family-related information practices: keeping track with family. Information practices such as keeping track enact family practices and reveal them, both to family members and to outsiders. Looking at the intersection of information and family practices helps information studies scholars to reflect on family life as a context within which information practices take place and prompts us to explore questions to better understand the situatedness of information practices within particular contexts. For information professionals, this work provides insight into the complexity of people’s everyday life information practices.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":"70 1","pages":"104 - 78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44400123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In this article, we report the results of an exploratory pilot study intended to capture the experiences of parents of transgender (trans) or non-binary youth. Library and information science researchers have spent little time exploring the phenomenon of family information practices. This context provides an opportunity to further theorize how social dynamics impact information practices. Seven parents of six trans or non-binary young people under twenty-five years old participated in semistructured interviews. Questions probed parents’ information work around gender identity, their emotions, and parent-child information exchanges. Results indicate that parents’ information needs are shaped by emotion and awareness of transphobia and the abuse often directed at trans and non-binary youth. A commitment to be supportive motivates parents’ attributions of authority. Parents rely on various information sources but prize the experiential knowledge of other trans people and their supporters particularly. These encounters elicit parents’ work toward a new understanding of gender broadly and their child’s gender specifically. Parents take on information proxy and mediary roles and collaborate with their trans or non-binary children to gather and manage information. Parents’ interactions with information in this context reflect sociocultural attitudes and ideas of power and authority, serve cognitive and affective needs, are situated in time and place, and are dependent on enacted, embodied realities.
{"title":"The Information Practices of Parents of Transgender and Non-Binary Youth: An Exploratory Study","authors":"Maria Ortiz-Myers, K. Costello","doi":"10.1353/lib.2021.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2021.0018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this article, we report the results of an exploratory pilot study intended to capture the experiences of parents of transgender (trans) or non-binary youth. Library and information science researchers have spent little time exploring the phenomenon of family information practices. This context provides an opportunity to further theorize how social dynamics impact information practices. Seven parents of six trans or non-binary young people under twenty-five years old participated in semistructured interviews. Questions probed parents’ information work around gender identity, their emotions, and parent-child information exchanges. Results indicate that parents’ information needs are shaped by emotion and awareness of transphobia and the abuse often directed at trans and non-binary youth. A commitment to be supportive motivates parents’ attributions of authority. Parents rely on various information sources but prize the experiential knowledge of other trans people and their supporters particularly. These encounters elicit parents’ work toward a new understanding of gender broadly and their child’s gender specifically. Parents take on information proxy and mediary roles and collaborate with their trans or non-binary children to gather and manage information. Parents’ interactions with information in this context reflect sociocultural attitudes and ideas of power and authority, serve cognitive and affective needs, are situated in time and place, and are dependent on enacted, embodied realities.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":"70 1","pages":"105 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41451916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Family members provide important care for individuals with mental disorders but experience many unmet information needs. Here, we review literature from various disciplines regarding the information needs and sources used by relatives of individuals with depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorders, schizophrenia, and other psychotic disorders. The literature shows that family members of individuals living with mental disorders need information on symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, and daily management as well as mental health services and legal information. To meet these needs, family members seek information from health care providers, other families dealing with the same issues, health information websites and social media, and their own friends and family. The synthesis of this literature sheds light on the sizable and complex information needs of family members dealing with mental disorders and has direct implications for library collections and programming aimed at facilitating access to trustworthy information on mental disorders and enhancing mental health literacy.
{"title":"Information Needs and Sources for Family Members of Individuals Living with Mental Disorders","authors":"D. Charbonneau, K. Akers","doi":"10.1353/lib.2021.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2021.0019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Family members provide important care for individuals with mental disorders but experience many unmet information needs. Here, we review literature from various disciplines regarding the information needs and sources used by relatives of individuals with depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorders, schizophrenia, and other psychotic disorders. The literature shows that family members of individuals living with mental disorders need information on symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, and daily management as well as mental health services and legal information. To meet these needs, family members seek information from health care providers, other families dealing with the same issues, health information websites and social media, and their own friends and family. The synthesis of this literature sheds light on the sizable and complex information needs of family members dealing with mental disorders and has direct implications for library collections and programming aimed at facilitating access to trustworthy information on mental disorders and enhancing mental health literacy.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":"70 1","pages":"133 - 148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41654781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:My research explored an African American and Puerto Rican family’s responses to the text Down These Mean Streets (2016), written by and about a dark-skinned Puerto Rican named Piri Thomas. I designed this research to explore the ways Afro Latinx readers in the Velez family found relevance in a text written by a dark-skinned Latinx author based on their own individualized racial, ethnic, gender, and cultural identities; in what ways their individual textual interpretations compared to those of other members of the same family; and how reading a text written by and about someone of similar racial/ethnic identity affected each reader’s own identity formation. The counter-stories provided by my family and the autoethnographic information about myself were used to interrupt the dominant narrative of a lack of early literacy among Hispanic families and add diverse perspectives to existing understandings of reader response theory. While it is important to foreground issues of race and racism in reader response analysis, I suggest an intersectional approach that incorporates multiple identities. Results suggest that while there were individual differences in how readers interpreted the text, most family members felt cultural validation after reading the text and experienced pride in the family tradition of the book being passed from father to child.
{"title":"“It Was Like He Was Writing My Life”: How Ethnic Identity Affected One Family’s Interpretation of an Afro Latinx Text","authors":"LaTesha Velez","doi":"10.1353/lib.2021.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2021.0022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:My research explored an African American and Puerto Rican family’s responses to the text Down These Mean Streets (2016), written by and about a dark-skinned Puerto Rican named Piri Thomas. I designed this research to explore the ways Afro Latinx readers in the Velez family found relevance in a text written by a dark-skinned Latinx author based on their own individualized racial, ethnic, gender, and cultural identities; in what ways their individual textual interpretations compared to those of other members of the same family; and how reading a text written by and about someone of similar racial/ethnic identity affected each reader’s own identity formation. The counter-stories provided by my family and the autoethnographic information about myself were used to interrupt the dominant narrative of a lack of early literacy among Hispanic families and add diverse perspectives to existing understandings of reader response theory. While it is important to foreground issues of race and racism in reader response analysis, I suggest an intersectional approach that incorporates multiple identities. Results suggest that while there were individual differences in how readers interpreted the text, most family members felt cultural validation after reading the text and experienced pride in the family tradition of the book being passed from father to child.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":"70 1","pages":"207 - 238"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47723306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:“Bao Xi Bu Bao You” is a Chinese saying that means sharing information associated with positive emotions and withholding information associated with sadness or concern. This paper explores the decision-making practices of Chinese adults related to Bao Xi Bu Bao You in their sharing of current emotion-associated personal events with their parents. Based on semistructured interviews with thirty-two participants, the study illuminates the complexities of child-to-parent Bao Xi Bu Bao You activities by illustrating how they are shaped by decision-making processes that juggle several elements: expectations of reaction alignment/misalignment, utility, care, risk of boundary turbulence, and degree of seriousness/significance. Because the emotional quality of Xi (positive events) and You (sad/concerning events) are different, the elements are framed and approached in slightly different ways for decisions to share Xi and to withhold You, with some elements being particularly salient in certain contexts. Children balance self-oriented and parent-oriented considerations in decision making and actively adjust their personal events into “better-shared” or “better-avoided” Xi and You across time. Care, modesty, and Taoist dialectical passive-active transformations emerged as notable Chinese cultural elements that inform Bao Xi Bu Bao You and shed light on the rich cultural meanings attached to such practices.
{"title":"Understanding “Bao Xi Bu Bao You” in the Sharing of Emotion-Associated Personal Events in Chinese Families from the Perspective of Adult Children","authors":"Ruohua Han","doi":"10.1353/lib.2021.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2021.0021","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:“Bao Xi Bu Bao You” is a Chinese saying that means sharing information associated with positive emotions and withholding information associated with sadness or concern. This paper explores the decision-making practices of Chinese adults related to Bao Xi Bu Bao You in their sharing of current emotion-associated personal events with their parents. Based on semistructured interviews with thirty-two participants, the study illuminates the complexities of child-to-parent Bao Xi Bu Bao You activities by illustrating how they are shaped by decision-making processes that juggle several elements: expectations of reaction alignment/misalignment, utility, care, risk of boundary turbulence, and degree of seriousness/significance. Because the emotional quality of Xi (positive events) and You (sad/concerning events) are different, the elements are framed and approached in slightly different ways for decisions to share Xi and to withhold You, with some elements being particularly salient in certain contexts. Children balance self-oriented and parent-oriented considerations in decision making and actively adjust their personal events into “better-shared” or “better-avoided” Xi and You across time. Care, modesty, and Taoist dialectical passive-active transformations emerged as notable Chinese cultural elements that inform Bao Xi Bu Bao You and shed light on the rich cultural meanings attached to such practices.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":"70 1","pages":"180 - 206"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66276898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In an age when information is abundantly available online, libraries must continuously demonstrate relevance both to users and to funders. Libraries can do this by showing that essential services are being provided to users efficiently, and at a reasonable cost. This paper examines challenges that library administrators face in evaluating collection sharing services, due to the scarcity of detailed cost information and a lack of current benchmarks against which to measure their own library's data. The authors have been involved with a multiyear project to create the OCLC Interlibrary Loan Cost Calculator, a free internet-based tool that acts as a virtual real-time collection sharing cost study. Designed in collaboration with experts from the resource sharing community and built by OCLC Research, the calculator has the potential to fill in the knowledge gaps regarding current collection sharing costs, allowing for more comprehensive evaluations of this core library service.
{"title":"Putting a Price on Sharing: Fresh Cost Data as an Essential Ingredient of Evaluating Interlibrary Loan Services","authors":"M. Gaffney, Dennis Massie","doi":"10.1353/lib.2022.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2022.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In an age when information is abundantly available online, libraries must continuously demonstrate relevance both to users and to funders. Libraries can do this by showing that essential services are being provided to users efficiently, and at a reasonable cost. This paper examines challenges that library administrators face in evaluating collection sharing services, due to the scarcity of detailed cost information and a lack of current benchmarks against which to measure their own library's data. The authors have been involved with a multiyear project to create the OCLC Interlibrary Loan Cost Calculator, a free internet-based tool that acts as a virtual real-time collection sharing cost study. Designed in collaboration with experts from the resource sharing community and built by OCLC Research, the calculator has the potential to fill in the knowledge gaps regarding current collection sharing costs, allowing for more comprehensive evaluations of this core library service.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":"70 1","pages":"409 - 429"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41551767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Cost analyses are ways in which individual libraries can generate information about how their budgets are used, and can possibly help demonstrate the worth and value of work in catalog and metadata creation in academic libraries. However, despite their acceptance in the professional literature, cost analyses may be deeply flawed. This article begins with a broad survey of the professional and scholarly literature focusing on cost analysis and the elements composing it. The nature of cost analysis and the goals of costing practices, including the potential to calculate a return on investment (ROI), are presented. Next, through an analysis of the recent (2000–2019) scholarly literature on costing cataloging and metadata creation in academic libraries, we present peer-reviewed literature relating to costs; we demonstrate that the scholarly literature diverges from a focus on cost analysis to focus instead on improvements to individual aspects of cataloging and metadata creation work. In the final section, we propose approaching the catalog as a service that can be assessed in terms of opportunity costs for failed interactions. Overall findings suggest that focusing on user needs can be a productive alternative approach to considering the value and worth of academic library catalog and metadata creation.
{"title":"Approaches to Conceptualizing the Cost of Academic Library Cataloging: Discourses on Metadata Creation Cost, Value, and Worth","authors":"H. Sandy, Hyerim Cho, F. Dykas","doi":"10.1353/lib.2022.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2022.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Cost analyses are ways in which individual libraries can generate information about how their budgets are used, and can possibly help demonstrate the worth and value of work in catalog and metadata creation in academic libraries. However, despite their acceptance in the professional literature, cost analyses may be deeply flawed. This article begins with a broad survey of the professional and scholarly literature focusing on cost analysis and the elements composing it. The nature of cost analysis and the goals of costing practices, including the potential to calculate a return on investment (ROI), are presented. Next, through an analysis of the recent (2000–2019) scholarly literature on costing cataloging and metadata creation in academic libraries, we present peer-reviewed literature relating to costs; we demonstrate that the scholarly literature diverges from a focus on cost analysis to focus instead on improvements to individual aspects of cataloging and metadata creation work. In the final section, we propose approaching the catalog as a service that can be assessed in terms of opportunity costs for failed interactions. Overall findings suggest that focusing on user needs can be a productive alternative approach to considering the value and worth of academic library catalog and metadata creation.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":"70 1","pages":"387 - 408"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47599377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This study estimates scale and scope economies of academic libraries. Previous studies using Cobb-Douglas cost function or a linear cost function have limitations in measuring multiple outputs of academic libraries since they used circulation as a single output measure. They also have limitations in estimating long-run cost functions of academic libraries. Some researchers applied the translog cost function to public libraries and recognized the multiple-output nature of libraries, but they mostly failed to incorporate multiple output measures in their analyses empirically. This study develops multiple aggregate output measures and applies the flexible fixed cost quadratic function to academic libraries.
{"title":"Estimating Scale and Scope Economies of Academic Libraries: Using the Flexible Fixed Cost Quadratic Function","authors":"L. Liu, Charles Terng","doi":"10.1353/lib.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This study estimates scale and scope economies of academic libraries. Previous studies using Cobb-Douglas cost function or a linear cost function have limitations in measuring multiple outputs of academic libraries since they used circulation as a single output measure. They also have limitations in estimating long-run cost functions of academic libraries. Some researchers applied the translog cost function to public libraries and recognized the multiple-output nature of libraries, but they mostly failed to incorporate multiple output measures in their analyses empirically. This study develops multiple aggregate output measures and applies the flexible fixed cost quadratic function to academic libraries.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":"70 1","pages":"284 - 303"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41356196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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