Strategic Librarian

Whether you are making a justification for staff additions, new software, new online resources, next year’s budget, or the myriad of other reasons libraries need resources, you will do a better job of solving problems or improving services if you use a business case to plead your case.   What is a business case?  The many books and articles [...]

Anyone responsible for creating and managing a library budget knows how difficult those tasks can be. Whether firms are large or small, there is probably a focus on tracking how much a practice or office costs the firm against what they bring into the firm.  For the firm libraries, this means budgeting by practice or office or [...]