Research Catalog

Title

Guide to the management of the information resources budget / edited by Lisa German ... [et. al.].

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2001.

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Additional Authors

• German, Lisa.
• Association for Library Collections & Technical Services

Description

v, 26 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Assists managers in allocating information resources budgets and outlines general principles for the management of those budget allocations. Describes the character and function of the budget document. Presents considerations and options for application to the local budget allocation process, and lists the sources of information helpful to that process. Examines the steps to take in the development of the budget that assist in planning for the effective expenditure of funds.

Series Statement

Collection management and development guides ; no. 9

Uniform Title

• Guide to budget allocation for information resources.
• Collection management and development guides no. 9.

Subject

• Library materials budgets
• Acquisitions (Libraries) > Costs

Note

• "Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, a division of the American Library Association."
• Rev. ed. of: Guide to budget allocation for information resources. 1991.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 25-26).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction ; Allocation principles ; The allocation process ; The information resources budget document ; Managing the encumbrance and expenditure of funds ; The relationship between collection development and acquisitions ; Budget evaluation

ISBN

0810841320 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001031445

OCLC

46829206

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library