The Bottom Line: Volume 25 Issue 4

Talk about change

Michael A. Crumpton

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the importance of having conversations with staff regarding organizational change and financial futures.

Strategic positioning for staff realignment

Michael A. Crumpton

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the process and options available to conduct a staff realignment exercise. By approaching financial changes to the organization…

The nature of the game

Anthony McMullen

The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into issues encountered in maintaining library technologies and electronic collections on a limited budget and with limited…

Functioning staff or staffing functions?

Gary Fitsimmons

The purpose of this paper is to offer a model for staffing library functions that is free from the limits of rigid job descriptions.

“Retreat. Reveal. Retain”

Terrance (Terry) Cottrell

The purpose of this paper is to suggest that leaders use staff retreats as a time for budget and planning, more than as a time for working on the prototypical subjects of group…

Model for the centralized acquisition of collections in times of crisis

Nuria Lloret Romero

The purpose of this paper is to examine how, in many cases, the conversion of analog collections to digital collections is still a paradigm shift with regard to the ownership, use…

Outsourcing of human resources in science and technology libraries of northern India

Veerbala Sharma, Dinesh K. Gupta

The purpose of this paper is to study the extent to which outsourcing of human resources (HR) is used and the attitude of the library staff towards outsourcing in science and…

A simulation model of the arrival, flow, and usage pattern of library resources by the patrons

Mohammad Ahmadi, Parthasarati Dileepan, Sarla R. Murgai

The purpose of this paper is to examine the advantages of developing a simulation model of the activities of a university library, in order to balance the available resources with…

Middle managers and major gifts: fundraising for academic librarians

Tomalee Doan, Sammie L. Morris

The purpose of this paper is to share successful strategies to enable mid‐level management academic librarians and archivists to raise major gifts from individual donors.