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.
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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
Canceling Periodicals in the Context of an Unallocated Budget
Preservation Decision-Making Basics: A University Library Collection Developer's Perspective
