Operations Research for Libraries and Information Agencies
Techniques for the Evaluation of Management Decision Alternatives
Published on 28. June 1991
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-12-424520-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book is intended for those in the library community with an understanding of library processes and a desire to actually make use of scientific management techniques. The emphasis is on presenting insights into which tool may be appropriate for particular problems, not on the isolated understanding of theoretical issues. It does not require an extensive mathematical background. It shows well-developed examples of solving library problems and features chapter summaries and questions for further study.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Emerald Publishing Limited
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
459 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-12-424520-4 (9780124245204)
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Persons
Donald Kraft is professor at LSU and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He is a fellow of IEEE and AAAS and editor of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology He received the Research Award, Watson Davis Award, and shared the Annual Information Science Book Award from ASIS&T and the LSU Distinguished Faculty award. Bert Boyce has been an Information System Research Analyst, for the Information Systems Office, at the Library of Congress, a faculty member and acting Dean of the School of Library and Information Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, and Dean of the School of Library and Information Science, Louisiana State University, where he is now Professor and Dean Emeritus. He is currently Editor of the Academic Press Library and Information Science Series. He received the ASIS&T Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award in 1989, and has shared the Annual Information Science Book Award from ASIS&T.
Content
Why Operations Research? The Systems Approach: Rational, Systematic, Objective Approaches to Problem Solving. Overview of Library Operations Research. Problem-Solving Techniques: Decision Theory. Resource Allocation. Graph Theory and Library Networks. Queueing Theory. Stochastic Processes and Library Models. W.G. Rudd and B.R. Boyce, Modeling and Simulation. Library Implementation: Library Management Information Systems. Bibliography. Appendix. Index.