This book provides information to help school librarians get grant money for their schools. Chapter 1, "Identify the Need and Make a Plan," discusses preparation, library technology, other needs, and objectives. Chapter 2, "Go Where the Grants Are," covers organizing the research, searching for funding sources, and types of grants. Chapter 3,…

Responses to a 1978 telephone survey of selected Association of Research Libraries (ARL) directors indicated a movement toward the use of endowed funds for collection development and toward external funding for special collections. Other needs for which libraries were seeking external monies included technological improvements, publications,…

Explores both the allocation of resources to documents departments in academic libraries and the wide variation in local levels of support. Ways in which documents librarians may change levels of support through sources within and beyond their libraries are suggested. (CLB)