The Bottom Line: Volume 17 Issue 3

Bidding for funds: creative partnerships

Bidding for additional funds for your organisation can be both a daunting experience and an exciting challenge. This article offers a few principles for fundraising which have…

Easy as ABC? Activity‐based costing in Oxford University Library Services

Oxford University Library Services (OULS) currently consists of over 30 federated libraries and services at Oxford University. Owing to the size of OULS, and the reality of future…

Budgets and budgeting in selected Nigerian university libraries

In Nigerian university libraries, government allocations are the main source of revenue supporting library operations. However, the level of government support differs between…

Using the world of blogs for project and financial management

Weblogs or “blogs” are a recent addition to the library professional's toolkit. They can be particularly useful to library managers, whether as a means of maintaining current…

What you don't know about banking could hurt your library

Unlike the banking services many of us remember as children, the banking services offered to corporate accounts today can be of use to libraries as they streamline operations…

Which came first, the project or the fundraising?

One of the harder endeavors faced in a library is maintaining a balance between necessary projects and providing the funds to finance them. Ideally, discussions of funding and…

Skulls in the desert

Perhaps the one constant in every business is the need to cope with technological change, and libraries are no exception. In fact, libraries may be one of the most affected…

Interview with A.R. Sethi

Noteworthy and newsworthy

Staying connected: does the cost equal value?