Modelización matemática aplicada a la gestión de bibliotecas

Simple and complex organizations, as are libraries and the library systems, are compelled to adjusting to their budgets, which must provide for a variety of needs, moreover they opt for excellence in their inner performance and in their service to users. It is thus interesting to employ techniques and tools for optimizing their resources' allocation and their efficiency, by choosing their most appropriate location and by the most rational task share among their personnel, like Mathematical Programming, and the way to implement it is through a modeling language. The degree of difficulty of the mathematics necessary for the formulation and solution of the problems found in libraries is low, and the investment in mastering a modeling language by a sizeable group of librarians would pay off with the implementation of specific models for the library consortium.