Discusses current trends in health and health care, assesses significance of current data, and investigates causes and implications of the data for future health and health care. For journal availability, see SO 506 144. (Author/DB)

Addressed in this speech are aspects of law library budgets--how to determine need, how to obtain funding, and how to best utilize funds made available. The qualities and duties of a good law librarian are also examined. (LBH)

An approach to the problem of dividing and costing total student contact hours into laboratory and classroom categories in the absence of complete data but availability of partial data is discussed. A solution is proposed applicable to all formulae having a calculation of teaching faculty support by either the percentage or credit hour methods.…

United Kingdom norms for libraries are reviewed and the effect they would have on Australian university libraries is examined. Focus is on book storage, future growth provision, reader places, administration, reserve storage, and special collections. (LBH)

Empirical procedures for analyzing readily-available, regularly collected data are illustrated. The models described indicate that major research universities and other doctoral-granting institutions are different in terms of their expenditure and revenue patterns, and that student-related variables are of secondary importance in determining those…

Summarizes major problems in school financial management and suggests practical improvements to aid external reporting of financial data and internal management. Sections of the article describe these categories of problems: (1) budget presentation; (2) management control; (3) cost accounting; and (4) financial reporting. (PS)

A review of the library literature on personnel turnover and the costs involved in replacing personnel provides background information for a model designed to determine the costs involved in hiring an academic librarian. This model is based on the experiences of a specific library. (CLB)

This article describes the rapidly deteriorating conditions of innercity schools as a result of reductions in federal expenditures for public education during the Reagan Administration. It is argued that "excellence," in the Reagan agenda, has become a code word for retreat from equity. (TE)

This description of the role of budgets in nonprofit organizations uses libraries as an example. Four types of budgets--legislative, management, cash, and capital--are critiqued in terms of cost effectiveness, implementation, and facilitation of organizational control and objectives. (CLB)

This meta-analysis found a minimal relationship between student achievement and educational expenditures except for direct instructional expenditures such as teachers' salaries and supplies. The amount spent is less vital than how the money is spent. (Compare gymnasium renovation with purchasing a new math program.) Nonschool factors may also be…

Reports agency publication policies established by the President's Task Force on Management Report and subsequent reductions in data collection and publishing activities. The impact of these policies on the availability and cost of federal statistical documentation collected by libraries is described. (CLB)

Winners of a national contest for cost-cutting in campus maintenance, institutional planning, and program administration and the nature of their innovations are reported. (MSE)

This paper is a quantitative assessment of the argument that enrollment declines have contributed to increases in per pupil expenditures in public education. It analyzes changes in resource levels per pupil in Michigan from 1970 to 1980 and the extent to which they are related to changes in enrollment. (TE)

Examines steps taken by the University of California to establish an adequate base library book budget and to measure price increase needs to maintain budgeted acquisition rates. The Voigt/Susskind Acquisitions Model, securing adequate funding for price increase needs, and the university's price increase justification are highlighted. (EJS)

A longitudinal file was used to compute 61 indicators of college viability. Particular colleges identified as being in distress were used to validate the indicators. The validated indicators for each type of college were then used to construct a summary index of viability. (Author/BW)