Acquisitions, budgets, and material costs issues and approaches

• Format: Book
• Published: New York Haworth Press 1988
• Subjects: Acquisitions (Libraries) > Costs; Approval plans in library acquisitions > Costs; Library materials > Prices; Library materials budgets
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 These experts examine approval plans, including a new approach for the publisher-based plan; the impact of inflation, including the increasing costs of titles in selected subject disciplines, causes for the costs, and ramifications for libraries and suppliers; and the process of materials budgeting from the collection of data to the justification of the budget. With increasing demands on librarians to find better budget management strategies and to develop more effective material acquisition processes, an environment has evolved in which librarians and book vendors are forced to examine their methods of acquiring and supplying materials to libraries. Acquisitions, Budgets, and Material Costs: Issues and Approaches provides librarians with readily applicable solutions to today's acquisition problems.