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crl-15486	Lawrence, Stephen R.; Connaway, Lynn Silipigni; Brigham, Keith H.	Life Cycle Costs of Library Collections: Creation of Effective Performance and Cost Metrics for Library Resources	2001	13	.pdf	application/pdf	6129	230	45	As Martin M. Cummings concluded, “Analysis of costs in meaningful detail is essential to management, i.e., answering the question, ‘Are there alternate, less costly ways to do the same thing?’”20 Methodology This article presents a new and unique method for determining library costs. Table 5 demonstrates that monographs are overwhelmingly the largest source or driver of library costs, consuming 95 per­ cent of library life cycle expenditures.	cache/crl-15486.pdf	txt/crl-15486.txt