Cover; Fee-Based Services in Sci-Tech Libraries; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Cost Allocation and Cost Recovery Considerations in a Special Academic Library: Georgia Institute of Technology; Cost Recovery Ideas; Cost Allocation Study; Fee-Based Service; Direct Student Fees; Sponsored Research Programs as a Source of Library Funds; Conclusions; Fee-Based Services in the M.I.T. Libraries; The M.I.T. Setting; The M.I.T. Libraries; Fee-Based Services; M.I.T.'s Relations with Industry; History of Cooperation and Its Effects on Library Service
Where Do We Go From HereFee-Based Services in Health Sciences Libraries; Current Research; Current Fee-Based Services; Sci-Tech Libraries and Serials Agents: The Unused Leverage; Introduction; Background; Ramifications; Study; Discussion; Special Paper; Evolving Roles of End-Users and Librarians in Academic Computer Searching; Computer Searching Activity; End-User Searching; Current Roles of Librarians; Future Challenges for Librarians; Sci-Tech Collections; Artificial Internal Organs: Brief Guide to the Research and Literature; Introduction; The Literature on Artificial Organs
Brief Overview of Research on Various Artificial OrgansProfessional Societies; Journals; Abstracts and Indexes; Social/Ethical/Religious/Business/Political Considerations; Conclusion; New Reference Works in Science and Technology; Sci-Tech Online; Database News; Education; Sci-Tech in Review; Human Indexing or Machine Indexing?; Do Indexes Match What They Index?; Scientific Literature; Automated Office and Document Libraries; Information Chaos; Document Centers in France; Pruning Serials; Chemists Use Engineering; PC's in an Engineering Library; Downloading Is Inevitable; Economics Is All
Summary
This timely and important book explores how fee-based services have developed in various types of sci-tech libraries. The authoritative contributors focus on the current changing financial aspects of the sci-tech library operation and clarify for the reader how these changes have brought about conditions in which traditional methods of funding are no longer adequate. What new options are open and how they are best being applied in today's sci-tech libraries is fully and clearly explained and illustrated. Topics explored include cost allocation and cost recovery, fees for computer searching, an
