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Blowing Up Harry Potter: Leveraging an NLM Exhibition to Your Advantage
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Faricy-Beredo, Bridget – Public Services Quarterly, 2013
Libraries are constantly challenged to find ways to demonstrate their value to their institutions. Can hosting a National Library of Medicine (NLM) exhibition increase a library's impact? In 2012 the University of Toledo engaged their constituents by hosting and developing programming for the NLM exhibit Harry Potter's World: Renaissance Science,…
Descriptors: Government Libraries, Medical Libraries, Exhibits, Academic Libraries
Comparing Academic Library Spending with Public Libraries, Public K-12 Schools, Higher Education Public Institutions, and Public Hospitals between 1998-2008
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Regazzi, John J. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2012
This study compares the overall spending trends and patterns of growth of Academic Libraries with Public Libraries, K-12 schools, higher education institutions, and hospitals in the period of 1998 to 2008. Academic Libraries, while showing a growth of 13% over inflation for the period, far underperformed the growth of the other public institutions…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Academic Libraries, School Libraries, Special Libraries
Cost Studies and Fiscal Planning. SPEC Kit 52.
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1979
A 1979 Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) survey focused on reviewing the current state of fiscal planning and cost studies in Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries. The survey results indicate that, while some libraries are beginning to use cost analysis techniques to evaluate current programs, to plan for new…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates, Financial Policy
Program Budgeting for a Graduate School Library.
Westerman, Mel – 1985
Program budgeting, a method founded in the systems approach, allows control, management, and planning in the library system, and avoids the more comprehensive analysis required by zero-based budgeting. By evaluation of the impacts of the work accomplished by the library staff, the budgeted amounts can be justified or adjusted in subsequent years.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cost Estimates, Graduate Study, Higher Education
Alternatives for Future Library Catalogs: A Cost Model. Final Report of the Library Catalog Cost Model Project.
Wiederkehr, Robert R. V. – 1980
The Library Catalog Cost Model described in this report was developed to assist each of the 72 individual libraries participating in the project to compare the costs of alternative future forms of the catalog, emphasizing the costs of implementing AACR 2 (Anglo American Cataloging Rules 2). Inputs characterizing their costs and modes of operation…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Output Microfilm, Cost Estimates, Higher Education
Austin Community College Learning Resource Services Strategic Plan, 1992-1997.
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Austin Community Coll., TX. – 1992
Designed as a planning tool and a statement of philosophy and mission, this five-part strategic planning report provides information on the activities, goals, and review processes of the Learning Resource Services (LRS) at Austin Community College in Austin, Texas. The LRS combines library services, access to computer terminals, and other…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Planning, Community Colleges, Educational Technology