The Bottom Line: Volume 19 Issue 4

Passport services: a business plan for Alameda County Library

This paper aims to provide a business plan for libraries to offer profitable passport services to patrons.

Sustaining the work of “Learning in libraries”

A model collaborative approach among three distinct library systems with common goals and missions but unique delivery systems. The primary goal was to improve the out of school…

Fitting library services into the lives of the poor

This paper sets out to provide an overview of the current state of library services to the poor, and to suggest how it can be improved.

Development is dysfunctional …

This paper aims to assist and offer workarounds for dysfunctional situations in library development situations.

Reading the future

This paper seeks to see how libraries measure up to futurists' predictions of libraries of the future.

2006 Awards for Excellence

Between the lines

Noteworthy and newsworthy

Hide and seek: do we really know where and how we are spending our money?