The Bottom Line: Volume 26 Issue 3

Is the chain of command working for you?

Michael A. Crumpton

– The purpose of this paper is to discuss the importance of having a chain of command strategy, in particular with staff repurposing activities.

The day the earth shook

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…

Developing a vision for the library

Gary Fitsimmons

– This article's purpose is to show how to develop and maintain a shared vision for library services among a library staff.

Weeding worries, part 1: books

Terrance Luther Cottrell

The need to cull collections comes from a variety of concerns. Space, budgets and relevancy are the primary sources of exploration into the weeding of a collection. The purpose of…

Overcoming the them and us syndrome in libraries

Robert Howard Kieserman

This paper seeks to explore attitudes of staff librarians who see themselves separate and apart from their supervisors in terms of their agendas and their roles. The paper offers…

We will get by with a little help from our “Friends”

Ann M. Watson

– The purpose of this column is to address how one academic library is surviving budgets cuts with assistance from a Friends group.

Tough decisions: phasing out a popular option to maintain overall service viability

Kevin Herrera

The purpose of this paper is to describe the University of Mississippi Libraries' experience in implementing a printing cost-recovery service, unexpectedly finding itself managing…

Predicting demand for inter-library loan requests

Mohammad Ahmadi, Parthasarati Dileepan, Sarla R. Murgai

The purpose of this study is to develop a mathematical model that can be used to forecast the demand for the inter-library loan (ILL) requests. Accurate estimates of demand are…