The Bottom Line: Volume 13 Issue 1

Communicating resource needs for successful library services

Library professionals spend much of their budgeting time focused inward, allocating scarce resources among worthy competing priorities. Considerable time and skill is focused on…

Statistics and teaching in departments of library and information studies

Teaching some kind of research methodology takes place in nearly all departments of library and information studies. Often the units or courses do not embrace more than the…

Scanning book tables of contents: a preliminary report on costs and procedures

This is an initial report on a pilot project to assess the costs associated with scanning some monograph tables of contents (TOCs) and the value of the TOC enhancement to their…

A decade of restructuring at Meriam Library, California State University, Chico

Publication No. 49 of the Association of College and Research Libraries entitled Restructuring Academic Libraries: Organizational Development in the Wake of Technological Change…

From funeral to christening: OPAC rites of passage

This article depicts how the Baylor libraries staged two cost‐effective celebrations to address challenges of migrating to a new online catalog. A New Orleans‐style funeral…

Counting on numbers can add value

Outsourcing: A Guide to Selecting the Correct Business Unit; Negotiating the Contract; Maintaining Control of the Process

E-rate update

Internet obscenity and local funding

Paycheck matters

And now for some good news

Distant yearning

Slicing the membership pie

What Leaders Really Do

On Competition

Budgeting for the twenty-first century

Other legislative activities

Editorial

Low budgets compromise services

Disasters hit the budget

Which format is right for you? Some points to consider when comparing products delivered across platforms