title: Book prices and costs for a small-hospital library: a subject analysis.
abstract: An analysis of the Brandon/Hill lists has provided individual price figures to assist the librarian of a small hospital in calculating book costs associated with establishing and maintaining an up-to-date collection suited to institutional needs. For the fifty-three subject categories analyzed, the following were calculated over the past twenty-two years: average price per title, size and cost of the category, number of new titles or editions, percentages price increases, and cost of maintaining a basic collection. Used in conjunction with local purchasing data, these figures can be useful in budget preparation.
authors.affiliation: Goddard Memorial Hospital, Stoughton, Massachusetts 02072.
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Johnson
mesh_terms: D001872:Book Prices; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D006801:Humans; D007992:Libraries, Hospital / Q000191:economics*; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States