The Acquisitions Budget

Bill Katz

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9780367375089
• eBook ISBN: 9781000755060
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Library & Information Science
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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.

The Acquisitions Budget

CONTENTS

Introduction

Bill Katz

Acquisitions Budgets: Planning and Control for Success

Robert C. Miller

Budget Structure

Establishing Need

Budget Presentation

Managing the Budget

Conclusion

Managing the Reduced Purchasing Power of the Acquisitions Budget

Sharon Bonk
Heather Miller

The Immediate Problem

Future Directions

Short Term Actions

Long Term Strategies

Forecasting Expenditures for Library Materials: Approaches and Techniques

Kathryn Hammell Carpenter

Introduction

Economic Factors

National Price Indexes

Local Cost Studies

Publishing Industry and Pricing

Collection Development Practices

Techniques for Money Management

Managing the College Library’s Acquisitions Budget

Mickey Moskowitz
Joanne Schmidt

The Budget Process

Monitoring the Overall Acquisitions Budget

Monitoring the Book Budget

Monitoring Standing Orders and Approval Plans

Monitoring the Periodicals Budget

Conclusion

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Budget

Judith F. Niles

Training

Budget Process – Definition and Overview

Development of the Budget

Committing the Budget

Budget Analysis and Reports

Survival Techniques

Public Relations

Satisfactions of Working with the Budget

Coping with a Decreasing Book Budget

Ian Edward

Background

Funding Trends and Tactics

Staffing

Conclusion

Stretching and Restretching the Materials Budget: Trying to Do More with Less

Noreen S. Alldredge

Background

Relationship with Parent Institution

Dilemma of the Library Administrator

Action Plan for the Library Administrator

Future Acti...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Acquisitions Budgets: Planning and Control for Success
• Managing the Reduced Purchasing Power of the Acquisitions Budget
• Forecasting Expenditures for Library Materials: Approaches and Techniques
• Managing the College Library’s Acquisitions Budget
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Budget
• Coping with a Decreasing Book Budget
• Stretching and Restretching the Materials Budget: Trying to Do More with Less
• The Implications for Acquisitions of Stagnant Budgets
• A Maintenance Budget: Living Within Your Means
• Establishing, Monitoring, and Spending the College and University Acquisitions Budget
• Administering the Allocated Acquisitions Budget: Achieving a Balanced Matrix
• The Research Library Materials Budget: Management of a Shrinking Resource
• Money, Manure, Squeaky Wheels, A Paucity of Grease and Possibly Grit!
• Bread Not Butter: Funding Online Searching in Hard Times
• Caught in the Squeeze: Limited Reference Budgets and CD-ROM Products in the State-Assisted University Setting
• Elasticity and Journal Pricing
• Cancelling Periodicals in the Context of an Unallocated Budget
• Preservation Decision-Making Basics: A University Library Collection Developer’s Perspective