id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15549 Liu, Lewis Guodo The Cost Function and Scale Economies in Academic Research Libraries 2002-09-01 15 .pdf application/pdf 7770 362 52 To be able to provide more accurate es- timates for library costs and economies of scale, this study took into account the multiproduct and multiservice nature of academic research libraries. Library Costs Total library expenditures were used as a measure of total library costs for materi- als, staff, binding, and other operating ac- tivities. cache/crl-15549.pdf txt/crl-15549.txt