Cataloguing costs : analysis and comparisons

Cataloguing is now more and more imported, but this activity is always very important in the functioning cost of libraries. Research for the best ratio cost/efficiency is a major objective. Skilled employees could be free for other tasks ; information resources could be imported in order to propose very good Opac ; and the putting into network of libraries made easier with the standardization of bibliographie descriptions and accesses. The authors have combined their respective exporiences to suggest an approach allowing a comparison of the costs of bibliographie policies libraries could consider.
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