The Bottom Line: Volume 24 Issue 4

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Table of contents

The recession, budgets, expectations and realities

Charles I. Guarria

This article seeks to provide insight on how librarians managed through the recession. It aims to highlight key areas of concern such as budgets and personnel. It is the…

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Pleasing all at the expense of many

Anthony McMullen

This article's aim is to provide insights into issues encountered in maintaining library technologies on a limited budget and with limited personnel.

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Great profits from great teams

Terry Cottrell

The purpose of this paper is to explicate the universal theme of teamwork within organizations as a performance factor toward effective and efficient library cost savings and…

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The singularity and the library

Kirstin Steele

This article aims to consider what libraries might be used for after machines become smarter than humans.

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Collection liquidation

James R. Lund

The purpose of this article is to encourage public librarians to reconsider the future value of their paper book collections.

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The policy/procedure manualpart I: making and abiding by good policies

Gary Fitsimmons

This article's purpose is to show the importance of making and sticking to well‐made policies and how to make them.

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Libraries' response to the crisis: measures to mitigate its impact

Nuria Lloret Romero

The aim of this paper is to present the initiatives that libraries and information services should take from the standpoint of management or services in times of economic crisis…

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Cover of The Bottom Line

ISSN:

0888-045X

Online date, start – end:

1988

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Professor Susanne Durst