高校图书馆数字资源建设的经济理论分析

Economic Analysis of Digital Resource Construction of Academic Libraries

高校图书馆数字资源作为商品的一种,具有价值与使用价值,由于准公共物品特性及数据商的垄断地位,数字资源建设成本较高。文章运用边际理论、成本理论、效用理论等对数字资源建设进行分析,认为数字资源建设提升图书馆的信息服务能力,但对读者来说符合边际效用递减规律,因此在实际工作中必须寻求数字资源与纸质资源投资的最佳均衡点。

As a commodity,digital resource of academic libraries has value and use value.As peculiarity of quasi public goods and monopoly position of data dealers,the cost of digital resource construction is comparatively high.Marginal theory,cost theory and utility theory were employed in the paper to analyze the construction of digital resource and it is concluded that digital resource construction can enhance libraries＇ information serviceability,however,for users,marginal utility meets the requirement of descending rule,therefore,it is important to find the best point of equilibrium between digital resource investment and paper resource investment in our work.