Budgeting for Information Access: Managing the Resource Budget for Absolute Access (Frontiers of Access to Library Materials) - Softcover

Milton T. Wolf is a noted librarian, scholar, and vice president of the Science Fiction Research Association. He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Libraries long have budgeted for the purchase of library materials, but only within recent years has budgeting for other forms of access to library materials been developed very much. Martin and Wolf examine the alternatives to the traditional purchase of library materials, covering such topics as interlibrary loan, purchase on demand, purchase of database searches, and leasing programs. They give guidance on making the decision to move from traditional methods and on developing the budget that will be needed to provide new modes of access. They also consider such topics as setting priorities, overhead costs, developing needed relationships with other organizations, and transactional budgeting. Edward Swanson