机会成本与图书馆服务

Opportunity Cost and Library Service

本文讨论了经济学的机会成本和图书馆读者的机会成本的概念、测度方法以及相互关系,揭示了读者的机会成本与图书馆服务有着十分密切的关系。即,图书馆服务的收益就是节约读者时间成本所表现出的价值。因此,图书馆服务观念和实践都应该围绕如何节约读者机会成本而不断改进。

This paper discusses the concept, estimate measures and the relationship of opportunity cost and user time consuming to access information, explores that there is a close relationship between the user opportunity cost and library service, and the benefit and output of library service is reflected in the economic value of saving user time consuming to access information. Therefore some promoting measures on library service are given for library management.