The costs of print, fiche, and digital access. The early Canadiana online project

D-Lib Magazine

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2000, Pages

  Kingma, Bruce R ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 3042686677     PISSN: 10829873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1045/february2000-kingma     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Anne R. Kenney, "Digital to Microfilm Conversion: A Demonstration Project 1994-1996" 〈http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/pub.htm〉.
2. Paul Conway, "Yale University Library's Project Open Book" D-Lib Magazine, 〈http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february96/yale/02conway.html〉 February 1999.
3. Table 1 costs of utilities, maintenance, salaries, equipment and supplies are based on University of Toronto cost estimates. Construction costs are based on new library construction at the University at Albany. All costs are in Canadian dollars. Exchange rate used is 1.5257. Costs are amortized using 5% rate of interest and life spans as follows: construction 25 years, equipment 5 years, and computers 3 years. Cost per volume based on library capacity of 500,000 volumes. Cost per transaction based on 21,874 transactions.
4. William Bowen, "JSTOR and the Economics of Scholarly Communication," The Economics of Information in the Networked Environment, Meredith Butler and Bruce Kingma, eds., Haworth Press 1998.
5. Michael Lesk, "Substituting Images for Books: The Economics for Libraries," 〈http://www.lesk.com/mlesk/unlv/unlv.html〉 April 4, 1998.
6. Malcolm Getz, "Evaluating Digital Strategies for Storing and Retrieving Scholarly Information," Economics of Digital Information: Collection, Storage and Delivery, Sul H. Lee, ed., Haworth Press 1997.
7. All costs are amortized in Table 2 with the exception that amortization for microfiche readers used a 15 year life span. Volumes are considered to contain 216 images. Images are page images. Each microfiche image has two page images. University of Toronto microtext use was 62,856 in 1997 for 3,387,777 units stored in a room of 810 square meters.
8. Joan Cherry and Wendy Duff, "Improving Access to Early Canadiana," unpublished manuscript, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, 1999.
9. The calculation of the economic value to patrons is (2984 uses)($5 saved per use) plus (7030-2984 additional uses)($2.50 average savings per use) equals $25,035.