The Bottom Line: Volume 5 Issue 3

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MONEY, LIBRARIANS, AND EDUCATION

MURRAY S. MARTIN

A GREAT deal of recent library news has been about money: rising prices, budget cuts, staff cuts; generally, the call to do more with less. Sometimes citizen protest or the…

CUTS POSE CHALLENGES

Murray S. Martin

While we are by now used to reading about the financial problems faced by libraries, most news arrives piecemeal, about one library or another, and we seldom put it all together…

FUNDRAISING WITH A CONSULTANT: The Case of the Davenport Public Library

Kay K. Runge

Small libraries that do not have a development officer on staff to conduct fundraising efforts may decide to engage the help of a consultant. Based on the experiences of the…

FINANCIAL PLANNING FOR A STABLE FISCAL FUTURE

Betty J. Turock, Andrea Pedolsky

It is imperative that every library have a financial plan. The library cannot be managed properly without one, especially if values, not expedience, are to determine priorities…

OPTIONS IN OFFERING A PHOTOCOPY SERVICE

Scott Finet

Although the process of selecting and managing a self‐service library photocopy operation is complicated and challenging, it often presents the astute library manager with the…

COST CONTAINMENT IN LIBRARIES

Jack Dunn, Murray S. Martin

In May and June, 1991, the College and University Library Association (CULA) conducted a quick mail survey on library cost containment and downsizing, focusing on changes between…

ANALYZING PRODUCTIVITY IN THE ERA OF ACCOUNTABILITY

Judith Jamison Senkevitch

Librarians are becoming more accustomed to using output and performance measures to assess library services. However, in an era of limited funds and increasing accountability, we…

ADVICE YOU CAN BANK ON:: MANAGING YOUR CASH

Richard M. Hetzer

Most prudent public sector money managers look to a variety of financial services and investment instruments to improve their funds management. In the process, they realize that…

DEPRECIATION OF LIBRARY COLLECTIONS: TERMINOLOGY OF THE DEBATE

Ellory Cbristianson, Sherman Hayes

Several years ago, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) released Statement No. 93: Recognition of Depreciation by Not‐for‐Profit Organizations. The result of this…

PUTTING YOUR LIBRARY ON THE MAP

Philip M. Clark

I'm a fairly visual person in that I can grasp the meaning of something faster when I see it than when I hear it. Since pictures stay with me longer than does print, I am…

THE SOFTWARE ENTERPRISE

Malcolm Getz

Libraries depend on entrepreneurs to create and market software to support library functions. This essay describes a software enterprise in pro forma terms so that library…

MARGIN OF EXCELLENCE:The Development Office at the New York Public Library

Susan Goldberg

People are talking about fundraising for libraries with much greater frequency and regularity than ever before, and the New York Public Library (NYPL) has become the institution…

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