Analysis of library information resources sharing the cost of investment seminars

[Paper Keywords] Library Information Resources Sharing the cost of investment

[Abstract] This paper analyzes the network of Library Information resources sharing in the investment costs, investment costs can be divided for the costs incurred to obtain Information, and Information Technology costs, user costs, management costs, external costs and opportunity costs.


In the network environment, to achieve a library of Information for the connecting link between resources sharing, information resources, the unique nature of public goods as a necessary requirement proposed. Recent years, China has established several information resources sharing system, to enhance information resources, ability and level of service played an important role.

Sharing of information resources to invest in the time course can be divided into stages and shared build stage, build stages, to pay the opportunity cost, need to build the library, purchase books, purchase of computers and other hardware devices and the corresponding software, Sharing stage, library staff need to pay the wages, management fees, custody fees, books storage, electronic data maintenance, software maintenance fees, etc. Specifically, the investment costs can be divided into specific costs incurred to obtain information, information Technology costs, user costs, management costs and external costs, opportunity costs.

1. Costs incurred to obtain information
No more than two sources of information, one for the collection, not the original elements of information into information, and second, has been purchased from external information from this perspective, access to information because of the cost incurred costs can be divided into information-gathering and information acquisition costs. the cost of information collection is to gather, form, save the cost of information resources. information resource is not always there, but after after a certain amount of channels to collect, preserve and formation. Such as certain professor in a university lecture, this process will produce information, but only recorded during this presentation, saved as electronic data can be used by other people's information will ultimately be formed, while the process of recorded speech, to appoint staff, to pay costs of shooting and finishing costs, need to spend some time: the information saved, you need media, need to burn the equipment, also need power, these are costs which is a description of the image, but this shows a general applicability of the general sense of the information-gathering is formed from the general sense, the information-gathering cost information should be included in the cost of the development process of all costs, including pay labor costs, material costs, management costs.

Information acquisition cost refers to acquisition of information resources to pay the labor costs, material costs, management costs, etc. In today's information explosion, information updates far more than any previous era, the information in people's communication and culture collide did not emerge in an endless, simply to collect information, can not meet the needs of the user access to information, most of the information obtained through the purchase. the acquisition of information has become the main source of information, appropriate, information acquisition costs would become "acquisition costs" of the main component.

2. Information processing costs
Information processing costs is to do some technical processing of information, ease of use and users pay the cost can be divided into labor costs, material costs, management costs, such as the formation of the original documents for processing secondary literature, three documents , indexing, summary, review, etc., but also to classify the existing literature, making words, making research reports, etc. These need to pay a lot of manpower and material resources and time to spend a lot of human capital, a total investment cost an important part.

3. Information Technology costs
Information Technology is the use of information Technology cost method of data processing (eg storage, transport, use) and spend the cost of traditional information technology is mainly due to the cost of traditional media of books and materials, storage and custody occurred costs, such as books and shelves and space needs to be placed, film audio and video data is stored in the dark need, constant temperature state. With the development of information technology, the traditional cost of information sharing technology has changed dramatically, modern data information, not only will bring storage costs, but also the cost of packet transmission to bring now the main form of data is electronic data, you can burn on CD or saved on the hard disk, CD-ROM and hard drive to buy the expenditure constitutes a cost information technology makes the information collection, processing, storage, communication, use of electronic technology to achieve this relatively traditional approach previously simply earth-shaking changes, so the sharing of information resources, use of information technology is undoubtedly a good choice, as information technology, a new application areas, rely on information technology, no good will greatly enhance the sharing of information resources, the efficiency of traditional information technology costs still exist, but because it is sunk cost, that is, whether to build shared memory does not exist, it will be there, so it can be seen as unrelated to the cost in terms of public information sharing using information technology, we must network and automation, to set up their own server, purchase bandwidth and maintenance to professionals , it all costs incurred. Specifically, information technology costs include hardware costs, software costs, network costs, maintenance costs.

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Hardware cost is the application of automation and network storage, and related computer hardware investment. It includes computer, server and server cooling facilities, network adapters, optical, storage arrays, hubs, switches, redundant power supplies, cable configuration , backup servers, and accessories, etc. in the purchase of these hardware devices, do not blindly for large good, but should be in the museum's budget, in line with the principle of good enough to be reasonable with a fixed procurement, to ensure easy to use, enough of the premise as to reduce costs, reduce unnecessary expenses. hardware procurement is a science, does not mean high quality, it does not mean easy to use, according to the barrel theory, the final performance of the hardware limited by the worst parts, it must be balanced with, must be based on-demand, save the procurement principles of conservation.

(2) Software costs
Software cost refers to the hardware as a carrier for the operation of hardware devices and operating systems to be effective, system software, antivirus and security software, application software, management software and other virtualization software product hardware, software body, the soul of the software is hardware, regardless of is the lack of body or soul, the body's functions can not be achieved, performance can not play, so a set of custom software and hardware support is necessary.

(3) network costs
Cost refers to the network server and computer access to the World Wide Web are required to pay fees in order to ensure smooth network operation, we recommend using a dedicated fixed-bandwidth fiber-optic network network configuration that is also good enough with the spirit of the principle, not blind pursuit of large bandwidth, resulting in waste of network resources of network costs are generally fixed, monthly or annual payment, generally there would be no major fluctuations, so the network can be seen as fixed costs during the cost. Note that the server connection, network distribution, as well as network software You Lie or not have affected the efficiency of network operation, configuration and maintenance of them require a higher threshold, and should therefore employ a dedicated staff consulting and field guide.

(4) maintenance costs
Maintenance cost is the system's hardware and software maintenance, in order to maintain its normal, efficient operation and to pay the costs of library data system is very large, its software structure and hardware structure is very complex. Specifically to maintenance costs generally include: regular inspection costs, the cost of system optimization, troubleshooting costs, change of consumables, software and hardware upgrade costs due to regular maintenance is generally maintained, the maintenance cost is generally considered to be relatively fixed, but When the software and hardware upgrades or replacement fails, a sudden increase in maintenance costs, the cost of doing this feature to consider when assessing order to make cost management more effective, so the sudden appearance of the cost burden does not affect the overall assessment, to use exception principle.

4. Information management costs
Management cost is kept in good working order for the library, the need to pay management costs. Management costs can be subdivided into the decision-making costs, control costs. Decision-making costs is uncertain the future of the library, make decisions and spend the costs of these decisions include not only investment, ordering the big decisions, including those belonging to fine-tune the properties of small decisions Library during various activities, should follow these steps: setting goals, put forward different options for equipment evaluate the alternatives and make decisions, evaluate the effect of the decision-making and concluded this four-step has to spend a lot of material, human resources and time, which includes the coordination of the share units asked to share functional units within the organization and coordination and supervision of the obligations of the museum, etc. These co-ordination and supervision, control needs with high professional quality of management, involve every specific thing, so to spend a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, these should form a cost.

5. External costs caused by information
External costs are an externality, is due to the presence of sharing, arising from the negative impact of the external environment or cause a third party costs. Sharing of information resources together for ease of use, But this way, more prone to major security issues. Once the database is compromised the hacker will cause significant loss of data if the hacker to data dissemination, the information will not take care of copyright, in addition, will bring users to share increases, so bring the waiting time increases, the user will directly lead to increased costs, if caused by network congestion, then the consequences will be more severe.

In addition, the process of sharing information resources, in order to share the unit's equipment, facilities, etc. can also be used to pay other investors. So, to use other programs that can bring the benefits of information sharing opportunities for public costs.

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