A Cost Analysis of Discontinuing Security Measures in a Current Periodicals Department

Autor:	Colleen Cook, Jeanne Harrell, Marifran Bustion
Rok vydání:	1990
Předmět:	Guard (information security) business.industry Cost analysis Operations management Library and Information Sciences Telecommunications business
Zdroj:	The Serials Librarian. 18:129-137
ISSN:	1541-1095 0361-526X
DOI:	10.1300/j123v18n03_08
Popis:	Seven thousand five hundred current periodical titles are housed in the Current Periodicals Department (CPD) of the Sterling C. Evans Library at Texas A&M University. Before 1987 a door guard was posted at the CPD exit to prevent users from leaving the room with periodical issues. When the room was remodeled, security precautions were rescinded for the collection, and users were permitted to take current issues from the CPD proper to read in other locations in the library. A cost analysis is presented of the decision to allow use of current periodicals outside of the CPD. The cost of two alternative security measures is compared to the cost of reshelving, searching, binding and ordering lost and missing issues. Results indicate that the decision to discontinue security in the CPD was a valid one.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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