id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-14844 Atkinson, Ross Guest Editorial: The Coming Contest 1993-11-01 5 .pdf application/pdf 2028 110 53 There- fore, service quality is relatively simple for a business to define: high-quality services are those that generate increas- ing revenue, and low-quality services are those that do not. Be- cause service is so difficult (in the ab- sence of a convenient gauge like revenue) to monitor and assess, and be- cause the real needs of academic users are so diverse and complex, and because the library has always had (by virtue of its proximity to its users) what amounts to a monopoly on campus for print informa- tion services, and finally because service is the library's only purpose for existence, the library has preferred and has been permitted to define service quality on the basis of whatever service levels it- the library-provides. cache/crl-14844.pdf txt/crl-14844.txt