Preparing the cost unit for the activities and services of cultural institutions, and measuring their economic impact, important steps for their prosperity in the future - Egypt Public Library as a model

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1 library and information, faculty of arts, tanta university. tanta. egypt

2 Deputy Director of the library for branch and regional librariesو Misr Public Library

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Public libraries are one of the most important cultural institutions in societies that play a major role in the well-being and progress of society, and there is no doubt that they have suffered in the recent period from two important events that have negatively affected them. By closing some of them, and spread of the Corona epidemic, which negatively affected the performance of libraries and forced many of them to provide their services and activities electronically (on line), in light of the warnings about the danger of social communication in closed spaces.
Cultural institutions also have an important economic aspect that everyone neglects to highlight, and it is an aspect that enhances the value of libraries for library staf, decision makers, donors, and society as a whole. Perhaps the reason for this is due to the lack of financial specialization on the part of librarians, and perhaps this is not a justification for us to neglect this aspect in light of the superiority of foreign libraries in it, and even the race to highlight its economic feasibility in society.
Perhaps the time has come to shed light on the economic aspect of the library by measuring the unit cost of all its activities and indicating the direct and indirect cost, in order to fair pricing of the library's activities and services, whether for the library or the users, which will enable us to rationalize unnecessary expenses as well as indicate different sources of income and evaluated according to their importance

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