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Security and Crime Prevention in Libraries (Paperback)
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Security and Crime Prevention in Libraries (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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First published in 1992, the purpose of this book is to identify
and describe the most important factors that must be considered in
making decisions about the optimal ways to provide access to
information - in short the best way to use the humans, the
machines, and the intangible resources known as information,
particularly at the organizational level. In recent years
executives have begun to outsource computing and telecommunications
functions primarily to control costs. Traditional libraries and
information centres have been disbanded in favour of service
contracts or outright leasing of staff. Both the private and public
sector are examining their information service operations from the
point of view of cost effectiveness. Decisions about owning versus
leasing of information are being made daily. Decision makers are
finding that they must deal differently with funding and budgeting
of information systems and libraries than they have in the past.
New paradigms for these service functions already exist. Not only
have corporations and governments begun to contract out entire
information service operations, but libraries themselves have begun
to consider the costs, effectiveness, and implications of
outsourcing some of their operations and services. This book
provides a framework for decision-makers to view and review
information services within their organizations. Entire units,
components of libraries and information centres are defined and
untangled so that the widest variety of organizations can analyse
their own environments. Although there is a minimal use of library
and computing jargon, a short glossary at the end explains terms
for which there is no simple English language substitute. Each
chapter is accompanied by comments from a broad range of experts in
the information field.
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