id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-13715 Toney, Stephen A Cost Database for Branch Library Resource Allocation and Performance Evaluation (Research Note) 1981-07-01 8 .pdf application/pdf 4277 229 62 A Cost Database for Branch Library Resource Allocation and Performance Evaluation A major gap in the knowledge of the man- agement of the Smithsonian Institution Li- braries (SIL), as in most libraries, is in the precise allocation of expenditures in terms of library goals. ANALYSIS OF THE PROBLEM Conversations among the director, the budget officer, and the author established the need to tag each SIL expenditure according to fiscal year, library goal, object class, fund type, fund source, cost center, and benefit center (these items are defined below). cache/crl-13715.pdf txt/crl-13715.txt