The Bottom Line: Volume 8 Issue 2

Thriving, not surviving

A couple of years ago the library press was constantly filled with depressing news of library closures, funding cutbacks, staff lay‐offs, and wage concessions. In the last year…

Using liability insurance to manage risk

Thomas M. Steele

Librarians face considerable liability exposure, especially from employment actions, simple personal injury negligence actions, and from perceived violations of constitutional…

Managing equipment: a proposed model for replacement

Jean Donham van Deusen

Proposes a replacement model for all types of library equipment — both audiovisual and computer. The model enables managers to develop a consistent capital equipment replacement…

Georgia's libraries and media centers win the lottery!

Lasa Joiner, Charles Beard

Formal, planned communication between all types of libraries and “telling the state's library story” resulted in the largest single appropriation of new money to libraries, from…

The CLS bottom line: it's more than money, it's service

Alice Calabrese, Jay Wozny

The Chicago Library system serves one of the nation's largest public libraries, one of the nation's largest public school systems, over 200 special libraries, and 52 academic…

Erratum

This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/01435129410772275. When citing the…