JMLA article of interest
From:
Lauren Young <fyi.jmla_at_gmail.com>
The Journal of the Medical Library Association is pleased to announce
the publication of v.100(2), April 2012. The issue contains the
following article that we believe might be relevant and of interest to
members of the COLLDV-L listserv:
*Using an automated tool to calculate return on investment and cost
benefit figures for resources: the Health Sciences and Human Services
Library experience*
Aphrodite Bodycomb, Megan Del Baglivo
"The Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HS/HSL) of the
University of Maryland appointed a small task force in 2009 to
experiment with an automated instrument for calculating ROI and cost
benefit ratios (CBRs) for its collection of books and journals. The
tool was developed by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine
(NN/LM), MidContinental Region [1], and promoted by them in a series
of presentations [2, 3]. This article describes the process used to
compile the statistics for the calculator, first using data from the
2008 fiscal year and then with data from the 2011 fiscal year."
We invite you to visit us online to read this and other quality,
peer-reviewed articles. JMLA preprints are available to MLA members
atwww.mlanet.org <http://www.mlanet.org/>, and current and archived
issues are freely available to all interested readers on PubMed
Central:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/93/.
Thank you,
Lauren
Lauren M. Young, MLIS, MA
Associate Editor for Social Media Dissemination
Journal of the Medical Library Association
fyi.jmla_at_gmail.com <mailto:fyi.jmla_at_gmail.com>
Received on Fri May 04 2012 - 08:51:02 EDT