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Appendix
Cost Model for the Scully Project

The cost model uses the following facts, estimates, and assumptions:

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-Course offered once every two years; three times in six years

-Number of students enrolled in Scully course = 500/term

-Number of weeks Scully photos available in study space = 9 weeks per term

-Length of term = 14 weeks

-Number of Teaching Fellows for Scully course = 25

-Approximate value/hour of Teaching Fellow time = $20

-Hourly wage for library student staff = $6.46

Staff costs for selection, maintenance, and display of slide and photo images

-1 FTE permanent staff devoted to photo collection = $xx,xxx for salary and benefits

-% of permanent library staff effort devoted to Scully course = x%

-Library student staff devoted to photo collection = 40% of $11,500 = $4,600 at $6.46/hr = 712hrs

-Library student staff devoted to exhibiting Scully photos = 48 hrs/year

-Time spent by Teaching Fellows assembling photo study = 3.5 hr/wk ³ 14 wks = 49 hrs

-Time spent by Teaching Fellows assembling slides for review classes = 56 hrs

Cost to prepare digital images for instructional use

-Number of images in Scully Project = 1,250

-Digitization of images (outsourced) = $2,800

-Change in Scully Project Web site content over 6 years = 20%

-Selection and creation of images (by 2 Teaching Fellows) = $6,200

-Web site design = $1,500

Preservation and access costs for slide, photo, and digital images

-Library student staff hours spent on mending and maintenance of photos = 7 hrs/year

-Disk space required for Scully Project = .855 GB

-Disk space required per volume for Project Open Book = .015 GB

-Scully Project images = 57 Open Book vols

-Digital Storage costs = $2.58/year/Open Book vol


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-Digital access costs = $5.67/year/Open Book vol

-Storage and access cost inflation = -13%/year

Study and other space costs

-Number of items in photo collection = 182,432

-Number of Scully photos mounted in study space = 200 for midterm; 400 for final

-NSF of photo collection in Street Hall = 1,733

-NSF collection shelving for Scully photos = 400/182,432 ³ (1,733 - 500) = 2.7

-NSF of photo study space = 2,019 + .25 ³ 1500 = 2,394

-% of photo study space devoted to Scully photos per term = 20%

-NSF of photo study space available for Scully photos = 2,394 ³ .2 ³ (9/28) = 154

-NSF of photo study space utilized during term = 154 ³ 75% = 116

-Annual cost of space maintenance = $7 NSF

-Cost of new construction = $300 NSF

-Amortization of capital costs at 8% over 35 yrs = $85.81 per $1,000

-Capital cost of converting existing classroom for digital display = $50,000 depreciated over 6 years

-Maintenance of digital classroom hardware and software = 10% of capital cost/year = $5,000/year

-Availability of digital classroom = 8 class hours ³ 5 days/wk ³ 28 wks ³ .8 efficiency factor = 896 sessions/yr

-Need by Scully grad assistants for digital classroom sessions = 25 ³ 3 = 75 sessions/yr = 8.3% of available sessions

-Annual cost of maintaining a network connection = $300

-% use of network connection for study of Scully Web site = 2%


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