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crl-15549	Liu, Lewis Guodo	The Cost Function and Scale Economies in Academic Research Libraries	2002	15	.pdf	application/pdf	7770	361	52	The report provided a library cost trend analysis and showed that library cost per capita and circulation unit cost decreased as public library size increased, indicating econo- mies of scale, but also pointed out that savings were not expected to be substan- tial.9 Baumol and Matityahu Marcus later studied costs of academic libraries, which led to the publication of a book in 1973.10 No production function or cost functions were dealt with in their book. To be able to provide more accurate es- timates for library costs and economies of scale, this study took into account the multiproduct and multiservice nature of academic research libraries.	cache/crl-15549.pdf	txt/crl-15549.txt