Fundamental aspects of the financing of information centres

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Abstract

An attempt will be made to clarify some aspects of financing information centres under the heading of five questions: (1) Should information centres be financed from public or private funds? (2) Can information centres be operated on a profit-making basis ? (3) To what extent should public information centres be financed from general tax revenue or by charging fees ? (4) Should fees be calculated as a function of the cost of the information centres ? (5) What form might practical fee arrangements (tariff structures) take ? In answering these questions various arguments will be compared and the general context of the problem outlined.

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Paper presented at 1st European Congress on Documentation Systems and Networks, Luxembourg, 16–18 May 1973.

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