Budgeting in University Libraries

Strategic Planning and Program Budgeting for Libraries

THISARTICLE WILL EXAMINE what products and services libraries offer their customers, define some of them, and show how to calculate the full cost of providing them. Program budgeting and cost-finding methodologies are outlined that will help administrators perform “strategic budgeting”-i.e., defining what services to keep, where to cut back, and what to eliminate in their own library.

University Libraries

Libraries are a critical component in the functioning of a University. With students, faculty, and staff using the libraries, it has both direct and indirect impacts on the lives of thousands of people. The libraries, just by its core function, have been contributing to intellectual sustainability – a “connecting thread” for the sustenance of life. It is essential for the libraries to become su...

Budgeting for a Main Library and Several Departmental Libraries

Drexel University Libraries

We are investigating the nature of knowledge building in virtual communities. In particular, we are exploring the possibility that a small group of students collaborating online on math problems can construct shared group knowledge that exceeds the knowledge of the individual group members. That is, can people working and learning as a community accomplish tasks that none of them would have bee...

Lighting intensity in university libraries of Rafsanjan, Iran, in 2014

Background: Lighting is a basic need for human beings and affects their physical, physiological, and psychological behavior. The required level of lighting for visual performance must be provided in order to ensure health and wellbeing. Students spend much of their time studying in libraries, and thus, sufficient lighting is necessary in libraries. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to...