ABSTRACT
This chapter describes investigation into the application of the sophisticated techniques of work analysis to those techniques. It presents detailed example of the application of the techniques of cost analysis to a cost analysis of catalog card reproduction and filing. In 1973 Dr. Basil Fotherington-Thomas, Expediter of Internal Research at Juan Fernandez University, became affiliated with The Molesworth Institute. The techniques which he suggested should be examined one against the other were: case studies, cost analysis, cost benefit analysis, critical path analysis, decision analysis, decision models, game theory, management by objectives, operations research, penultimate precision testing, queuing theory, simulation, statistical decision techniques, and value analysis. In an attempt to measure benefits by survey research procedures no administrator, librarian, or user wished to use any of the funds theoretically allocated to him or her to carry out a study using any of those methods.
