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The Effect Of Fees On User Demand For Two Information Services Provided By The Health Sciences Library At Allen Memorial Hospital, Elaine Hughes
The Effect Of Fees On User Demand For Two Information Services Provided By The Health Sciences Library At Allen Memorial Hospital, Elaine Hughes
Graduate Research Papers
The pressure to control hospital costs has had, and will continue to have, an impact on the funding of health sciences libraries. The concept of fees-for-services has been frequently posed as a means of generating revenue. But, there is very little data available on the effect fees would have on the demand for library services. The purpose of this study was to query the users of computer literature searching and interlibrary loan services at Allen Memorial Hospital in Waterloo, Iowa in an attempt to ascertain the feasibility of charging fees for these services as a means of producing revenue for …