Beyond Retrenchment: The Reallocation of a Library Materials Budget.

Bentley, Stella; Farrell, David

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Publication Date: 1985

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Beyond Retrenchment: The Reallocation of a Library Materials Budget.

Bentley, Stella; Farrell, David

Journal of Academic Librarianship, v10 n6 p321-25 Jan 1985

The crisis in collection development afflicting most members of Association of Research Libraries since the 1970s moved Indiana University Libraries to undertake a rationalization of their budget allocation procedure in light of a comparative study of peer institutions and to draft a new policy based on regional cooperation. (6 references) (Author/EJS)

Descriptors: Budgeting, Budgets, College Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Library Administration, Library Collection Development, Library Materials, Policy, Resource Allocation, Retrenchment, Tables (Data)

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Language: English

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