The Bottom Line: Volume 11 Issue 4

Public library business ventures ‐ risks, rubs and revenue

Mary Anne Craft

Public libraries are taking on business ventures that involve the selling of products and services. Most common are food services but these are primarily for customer and staff…

Laying the groundwork: using relational databases for serials review decisions

Anne Langley

Explains how an academic library gathered data for and then used relational databases of faculty information and journals data to make purchasing decisions and how it plans to…

Assessing library vendor relations: a focus on evaluation and communication

James H. Walther

Reviews the various scenarios which exist for library‐vendor relations. Considers the questions which should be asked when evaluating the individual products, services and options…

Dividends: the value of public libraries in Canada

Leslie Fitch, Jody Warner

Reports the findings of research conducted for the Library Action Committee of the Book and Periodical Council, Canada, into the importance of public libraries to library users…