The annual "Florida Library Directory with Statistics" is intended to be a tool for library staff to present vital statistical information on budgets, collections, and services to local, state, and national policymakers. As with previous editions, this 2001 edition includes the names, addresses, telephone numbers, and other information…

A program is described in which one school system became its own periodicals jobber and saved money. (SJ)

Building data is given for the following academic libraries: (1) Rosary College, River Forest, Illinois; (2) Abilene Christian College, Abilene, Texas; (3) University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California. (MF)

This collection of statistical data on school library media programs is designed to assist local education agencies in examining their programs according to concepts contained in "Criteria for Modern School Media Programs" and other publications of the Division of Library Development and Services. These charts compiled from statistics…

Reviewed are library problems associated with book acquisition related partly to the situation found in publishing and partly to the need for improved communications between librarians and wholesalers. (Author)

The fourth annual statistical survey of the year's work in college and university library architecture. (Author)

Local action, district analysis, and Planning Programming Budgeting Systems (PPBS) are the subjects of this article. (Author)

Advocates a more militant approach to facing problems directly related to certain practices among publishers: discount, delivery, and a general disregard for the significance of libraries in the market. This can be seen by comparing the way publishers treat public and school libraries to the way they treat retail booksellers. (JPF)

The key to instant media center development is improvisation and the ability to view needs in terms of their essential components. (Author)

This essay reports on several major features of black academic libraries: collections, operating expenditures, staff, and salaries. Eighty-five black, four-year, degree-conferring institutions were queried, and fifty-one questionnaires were returned. The results are categorized in terms of type of support of the institutions. In the fifty-one…

Romanian research findings offer a theoretical model with which financing of the annual acquisition of books per pupil at a given educational level can be objectively ascertained. Methods of financing and acquisitions policy decisions are discussed. (Author/JAB)

Includes eight articles that address issues related to budgeting and finances in secondary school libraries. Topics include limited budgets; budget proposals; administering grants; writing grants; using Microsoft's Excel software for budgeting; using credit cards for library purchases; offering prizes for donating books; and offering coffee and…

This paper explores: (1) the problem of budgeting for school libraries and media centers, (2) the nature of the budgeting process including a modern approach to budgeting and (3) a framework within which budgeting can function as a powerful management and analysis tool for school media centers. (Author/MF)

The purpose of this study was to determine conditions and services in Arizona's public, private, and parochial school libraries. The data, mostly for the school year 1965/66, were collected on questionaires sent to librarians and school authorities. The survey covers the libraries' organization and administration, physical facilities, services,…

Three case studies describe successful installations of three leading book security manufacturers. Reports on a 92 percent book loss cut at West Leyden High School, Northlake, Illinois; a substantial savings and a loss cut at the Charles Stewart Mott Library, Flint, Michigan; and a 75 percent loss cut at Chabot College, Hayward, California. (EA)