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http://dx.doi.org/10.14699/kbiblia.2011.22.4.301

Evaluation of University Library Efficiency Using Data Envelopment Analysis  

Jung, Young-Mi (동의대학교 인문대학 문헌정보학과)
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Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science / v.22, no.4, 2011 , pp. 301-315 More about this Journal
Abstract
DEA(Data Envelopment Analysis) is useful to measure the relative efficiency of organizational units where the presence of multiple inputs and outputs. This study applied DEA-CCR and DEA-BCC to evaluate the technical, pure technical, and scale efficiency of 29 university libraries. The input variables were number of books, print edition expenses, building space, staff, number of seats. As output variables we estimated: reader visits, number of borrowed items, number of visitors. It was found out that number of libraries with 100% relative efficiency among 29 libraries were 13. Also the results shows that main reason of inefficiency was from scale rather than from pure technical. Many inefficient libraries were operations of increasing return to scale.
Keywords
DEA(Data Envelopment Analysis); Management Efficiency; TE(Technical Efficiency); PTE(Pure Technical Efficiency); SE(Scale Efficiency);
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