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Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1977
This kit on the preparation and presentation of the library budget in Association of Research Libraries (ARL) institutions contains a concise summary of the results of a 1977 member survey on budget preparation and eight related primary source documents. The summary of the Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) survey focuses on types of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Budgeting, Budgets, Higher Education
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Adedigba, Yakub A. – International Library Review, 1988
Reports the results of a survey of Nigerian agricultural libraries and documentation centers that examined budgeting techniques. The factors examined include who prepares budgets, the basis of cost estimates, establishment of goals and planning guidelines, criteria for funding approval, and maintenance of financial records. Common problems are…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Comparative Analysis, Cost Estimates, Developing Nations
Lovett, Valerie W., Ed. – 1979
Prepared as a requirement for state aid, this self-evaluation makes eight recommendations for the future of the Wake County Library System: (1) formation of a single library administrative unit entirely funded by the county; (2) preparation of written goals and objectives for library service; (3) preparation of a library organizational handbook;…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Community Characteristics, County Libraries, Library Administration
Johnson, Peggy – 1990
Based on responses to a survey from 79 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries, this Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) kit explores how these libraries are currently addressing management issues associated with materials budgets. The survey addressed the following broad areas: how libraries define their materials…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Budgeting, Higher Education, Library Administration
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1977
This kit on resource allocation in academic and research libraries contains nine primary source documents and a concise summary of a 1976 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) survey on management of fiscal spending activities in ARL libraries. Based on responses from 70 libraries, the summary discusses 3 specific subjects within the general…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Budgeting, Fund Raising, Higher Education
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Truett, Carol; Lowe, Karen – North Carolina Libraries, 2003
Discusses results of a survey of school media specialists and their budgets in a group of 81 participants in Western North Carolina. Findings included: virtually all participants had site-based management teams or school improvement teams in their schools, however, only a third of the media specialists were on these teams, and there was much…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Budgets, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers
Childers, Thomas A.; Van House, Nancy A. – 1993
This workbook explains how to define what various constituents connected with a public library want it to do and what doing these things well means in qualitative terms. The book aims to define effectiveness for the public library and to provide guidelines for assessing the library's effectiveness and communicating this to stakeholders. The eight…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Efficiency, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research
Vasi, John – 1983
In July 1982, 10 member libraries of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) were surveyed to obtain information on their existing budget practices. Libraries participating in the study were the University of California, Santa Barbara; University of Chicago; University of Colorado; University of Florida; Iowa State University; Notre Dame…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Budgeting, Library Acquisition, Library Administration
Miller, J. Gormly – 1981
Growing concern on behalf of the Cornell Libraries administration about the lack of a central plan for library collection development at Cornell resulted in a study of the collection development function at Cornell, and the product of that study is this comprehensive proposal for a university-wide library collection and information resource…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Budgeting, Higher Education, Information Networks
Public Affairs Counseling, San Francisco, CA. – 1974
To develop organizational recommendations, propose new management procedures, and assist in budget preparation, a management improvement analysis was undertaken at the Seattle Public Library. Discussions were held with library board and supervising staff on all aspects of organization, operations, and services; a trial budget procedure was…
Descriptors: Administration, Budgeting, Delivery Systems, Library Administration
King Research, Inc., Rockville, MD. – 1980
In the fall of 1978, field visits--involving facility tours and interviews with administrators, school and library personnel, and patients--were made to institutions run by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. This department includes the Aged and Chronically Ill, the Juvenile Services, the Mental Hygiene, and the Mental…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Delinquency, Formative Evaluation, Institutional Libraries
Thomson, Sarah Katharine – 1975
A study of the interrelationship between expenditures and service programs in 27 community college library learning resource centers in California, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, Missouri, Ohio, Texas, Virginia, and Maryland was conducted. Three data gathering tables on staffing, media production, library instruction, and media advisement were…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Budgeting, College Libraries, Educational Media
1983
This report of the findings of a year-long policy analysis of New York City's three public branch library systems, carried out by the Nova Institute in cooperation with a study committee composed of city and library officials, opens with a brief historic account of the development of the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Public Library, and…
Descriptors: Branch Libraries, Budgeting, City Government, Comparative Analysis
Melville, Annette – 1994
In 1992 the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) surveyed administrators in member libraries regarding resource strategies of the previous three years. This paper summarizes revenue activities, adaptive tactics, and budgetary practices reported by 87 Canadian, U.S. private, and U.S. public university libraries and establishes a baseline for…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrators, Budgeting, Educational Finance