CRUS-Its Functions and Aims

CRUS (the Centre for Research on User Studies) started operations on 5 January 1976 as an independent research institute attached to the University of Sheffield and funded for its first five years by a grant from the British Library. From a purely utilitarian and financial aspect any library and inf...

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Published in:Library review (Glasgow) 1976-05, Vol.25 (5/6), p.179-180
Main Author: Wilson Davis, K
Format: Article
Language:English
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Centre for Research on User Studies Sheffield University UK
Information work
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Sheffield University UK
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Summary:CRUS (the Centre for Research on User Studies) started operations on 5 January 1976 as an independent research institute attached to the University of Sheffield and funded for its first five years by a grant from the British Library. From a purely utilitarian and financial aspect any library and information centre has to justify its existence from a cost-benefit point of view, and therefore has to be responsive to the information needs of the community it serves. Thus the 'determination of users' needs is absolutely essential to the management of an information center ... [It] exists only to provide service to user groups, and its monetary value is in terms of the service to the group[s] that it helps'.
ISSN:0024-2535
1758-793X
DOI:10.1108/eb020912