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Acquisitions, Budgets, and Material Costs
In times of tight materials budgets, steeply rising prices, and rapidly expanding information formats, library professionals will appreciate the valuable insights into acquisitions processes and management of material costs that are offered in this practical new book. Respected librarians and vendor representatives contributed to this volume--the published proceedings of a recent conference held at the University of Oklahoma. These experts examine approval plans, including a new approach for the publisher-based plan; the impact of inflation, including the increasing costs of titles in selected subject disciplines, causes for the costs, and ramifications for libraries and suppliers; and the p...
Collection Development and Finance
This text covers topics such as how collection budgets are planned, built and defended, and implemented, in straightforward language. Each topic is illustrated with sample budgets and allocations typical of academic and public libraries serving their respective communities. It includes step-by-step guidance for working with administrators and boards to meet patron needs while addressing today's financial realities. The author covers aspects of modern materials-budgeting, including the budget implications of electronic-access alternatives to purchasing materials. Chapters describe collection-finance relationships, gathering information for library materials budget requests, preparing the request, traditional and non-traditional budget processes, access versus ownership, background and procedures for setting up the budget, monitoring budgets, making midyear adjustments, and closing out the budget at the end of the year. Part of the ALA Editions series of "Frontiers of Access to Library Materials", the book addresses both academic and public libraries, but also looks at many issues applicable to other types.
Budgeting for Information Access
Budgeting for Information Access: Managing the Resource Budget for Absolute Access is an authoritative guide to planning resource budgets. It assists readers in making financial decisions involved in access to electronic networks, online services, interlibrary loan, electronic document delivery, and shared resources.
The Acquisitions Budget
Learn how to maintain a quality collection within a budget and still manage to make necessary cuts and savings. As the purchasing power of the materials budget declines, effectively managing the allocation of the materials budget and the development of the collections becomes more and more of a challenge. In The Acquisitions Budget, practicing acquisitions librarians--representing almost all types and sizes of libraries--address their daily problems and share innovative and effective methods for dealing with a shrinking budget. These authoritative contributors, who have many years of practical problems solving experience, also offer useful tips on how to influence administrators, faculty, students--anyone who has even partial control over allocating the budget. With this valuable new book, you will also enhance your knowledge of how the latest technology saves time and expenses in working out the acquisitions budget from day to day. Specific information is given on online and CD-ROM weapons in the war with the budget process.
Acquisitions, Budgets, and Material Costs
In times of tight materials budgets, steeply rising prices, and rapidly expanding information formats, library professionals will appreciate the valuable insights into acquisitions processes and management of material costs that are offered in this practical new book. Respected librarians and vendor representatives contributed to this volume--the published proceedings of a recent conference held at the University of Oklahoma. These experts examine approval plans, including a new approach for the publisher-based plan; the impact of inflation, including the increasing costs of titles in selected subject disciplines, causes for the costs, and ramifications for libraries and suppliers; and the p...
Guide to the Management of the Information Resources Budget
Guide to the Management of the Information Resources Budget assists librarians making information resources budget allocations and outlines general principles for the management of those allocations. It describes the character and function of the budget document, states allocation principles, presents an array of considerations and options for application to the local budget allocation process, and enumerates sources of information helpful to that process.
The Acquisitions Budget
This book, first published in 1989, discusses the maintenance of a quality collection within a budget while still making necessary cuts and savings. As the purchasing power of the materials budget declines, effectively managing the allocation of the materials budget and the development of the collections becomes more and more of a challenge. In The Acquisitions Budget, practicing acquisitions librarians - representing almost all types and sizes of libraries - address their daily problems and share innovative and effective methods for dealing with a shrinking budget. These authoritative contributors, who have many years of practical problems solving experience, also offer useful tips on how to influence administrators, faculty, students - anyone who has even partial control over allocating the budget.
Finance, Budget, and Management for Reference Services
The library budget, a topic of primary importance to the reference librarian, is thoroughly examined in this relevant new book. Experts offer insightful suggestions for reference librarians to understand and take responsibility for budget issues, directly and indirectly. They address the ability to explain the budget--which actually entails explaining the collection, the services, and the process in place for managing the fiscal resources--a necessary skill for any reference librarian faced with looming budget cuts. Providing quality services on a limited budget is also explored. The contributors provide helpful essays on convincing the parent agency to provide adequate support, setting goals and priorities, generating revenue, and more.
