ers.
The following table, also provided by Morris and Wool (1999) based on their Iowa State University cataloging cost study, examines costs for cataloging monographs only.
Cataloging Acquisitions
Per Tile Per Volume
Total Center Costs $6.14 $5.91
Department Level $4.86 $1.89
Assistant Director Office 1.11 1.04
Total Overhead Costs 5.97 2.93
Total Costs $12.11 $8.84
Per Title Per Volume
For monographs, costs were $6.14 per title while for acquisitions it was $5.91 (Morris & Wool, 1999). The overhead costs in cataloging are, according to Morris and Wool (1999), higher because of the larger number of professional staff involved in cataloging than in acquisitions. The data
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