id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-13727 Belanger, Charles H.; Lavallee, Lise Towards a Periodical and Monograph Price Index 1981-09-01 9 .pdf application/pdf 4752 285 60 THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY is not to rein- vent the wheel, as the field of economics has long discovered how to construct and apply price indexes to various commodities, includ- ing library materials. 26 Measurement of Price Increases In addition to the quantitative instruments mentioned, library managers have made ex- tensive use of price indexes and studies to jus- tify and allocate budgets. cache/crl-13727.pdf txt/crl-13727.txt