id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 4666 Dolby, J. L.; Forsyth, V. J. An Analysis of Cost Factors in Maintaining and Updating Card Catalogs 1969-12-01 24 .pdf application/pdf 8752 848 72 The cited report provided some information about the cost of computerized library catalogs. spent on cataloging adds cost to the study that tends to reduce the number of libraries willing to report; those that do report may or may not cataloging operation, three sources of information were used: 1) a detailed analysis made as part of an overall time and motion study of operations in the Lockheed Research Library ( 3); a detailed study of the cataloging and processing activities of the New York Public Library as a preliminary to possible automation of some of these operations ( 4); and a detailed study of the acquisitions, cataloging, and other processing operations for the Columbia University science libraries ( 5) . The simplest conclusion to reach from a study of Table 2 is that cataloging costs vary widely from one library to another. ./cache/4666.pdf ./txt/4666.txt