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Analysis of the Efficiency Trend of Public Libraries in Daejeon Metropolitan City

  • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
  • Abbr : JKLISS
  • 2010, 41(4), pp.35-50
  • DOI : 10.16981/kliss.41.4.201012.35
  • Publisher : Korean Library And Information Science Society
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science

Hye-Young Yoon 1

1중부대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to analyse the ralative efficiency of 15 public libraries over a time period(2006-2008) by Data Envelopment Analysis(DEA). The selected input variables were total staff, total area and total holdings. And the selected output variables were total circulations and total user. The results are as followed. First, a technical efficiency trend of public libraries has been improved since 2006. Second, a technical efficiency increase can be explained by increase of a pure technical and scale efficiency both.

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