id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
crl-13359	Fikes, Robert	Black Plots & Black characters: A Handbook for Afro-American Literature (Book Review)	1979-07-01	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1079	64	63	A cost accounting system specifically lim- ited to library labor costs in time and dpllars developed, implemented, and continuing in the libraries of California State University, Northridge, is carefully described in Cost Analysis of Library Functions in an at- tempt to provide a . model for libraries to Recent Publications I 369 produce their own set of labor cost data from which sound management decisions can be made and, eventually, from which relevant and meaningful staffing farmulas can be developed (p .2). A concise and cogent discussi9n of the methods used includes, in addition to defi- nition and description, consideration of some of the problems and pitfalls met, such as staff resistance, the discovery that actual library jobs are performed at variance with stated procedures , and the frustration at- tendant on the definition of activities , tasks, and functions to produce valid results-so much so that the authors conclude that in- stalling major data systems is a slow painful process that requires unending revision and rethinking (p.43).	cache/crl-13359.pdf	txt/crl-13359.txt