The Bottom Line: Volume 8 Issue 3

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Table of contents

Editorial

Charles Harmon

Libraries are businesses. Two issues ago, The Bottom Line (TBL) included an article by American Library Association president‐elect Betty Turock, entitled “Three business trends…

Cutting a million dollars' worth of journals

William Miller, Rita Pellen

Describes methodologies used both to make decisions about and implement massive journal cuts. These methodologies encompassed both challenging basic assumptions about…

Capital City Libraries: a model of community cooperation

Ann K. Symons, Karen Crane

Four entirely separate Juneau, Alaska, libraries, each with its own separate parent administrative structure, formed Capital City Libraries, a multitype cooperative. These…

Business systems review: a methodology for the management of change

Cyndie Tamaki

Presents a methodology which library managers can use to make necessary changes to their departments. The business system review is a methodology to develop strategies to make the…

Contracting to provide library service for a distance graduate education program

Sherrill L. Weaver, Harold A. Shaffer

In these times of no‐growth budgets and escalating service demands, the formation of partnerships between all types of higher education institutions — both public and private — is…

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