The Bottom Line: Volume 9 Issue 2

Publishing, economics, and the academy: faculty perspectives on the bottom line

Bruce Strauch, Caroline Hunt

Stresses that publishing and scholarship are not the same. This is why the economics of publishing ‐ both hardcopy and electronic ‐ was dealt with in detail at the Academy for…

Outsourcing in private law libraries since the Baker & McKenzie action

Kevin Miles

Describes how on March 31, 1995, the Chicago office of the law firm of Baker & McKenzie dismissed the entire library staff of three professionals, seven paraprofessionals, and…

Outsourcing: a customer’s perspective on the process and the potential

Thomas M. Walker

Many public library administrators are being forced to look toward outsourcing as a way of securing critical support services. Begins with a description of the Charleston County…

Is there life after serials cancellation?

Jeanie M. Welch

Describes how J. Murrey Atkins Library at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, had to cut approximately $200,000 from its materials budget, necessitating the cancellation…

Two libraries, one direction

Susan H. Zappen

Compares New York’s Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Skidmore College, two very different institutions with very different libraries. Both libraries are challenged by higher…

Building a digital library on ten thousand dollars a year

Henry Edward Hardy

Describes the benefits of a low‐cost digital library server using an electronic mail interface. Suggests hardware and software configurations. Outlines a hypothetical budget and…

Information economics and libraries in the digital age

Philip M. Ray

Describes how technology is rapidly changing the way information is distributed and paid for. Libraries face the risk that they will be cut from the loop that includes publishers…