In the developing knowledge society and emerging electronic environment, university and research laboratory libraries in India are facing several challenging situations and problems. Due to unavailability of funds, libraries are finding difficulties not only in modernising and restructuring...

Public universities in eastern and southern Africa have for a long time depended largely on grants from national governments for most of their recurrent and capital budgets. Statutes of various universities also allow them to get external aid and donations mainly for capital developments,...

An analysis of the ability of a particular library to significantly increase its Association of Research Libraries (ARL) ranking in a reasonable time period is presented. A discussion follows to show why this is not a useful objective at a time when academic libraries are transitioning to new...

Awareness of resource sharing in Pakistan in its present day form is a phenomenon of the 1980s. This is primarily attributed to problems encountered by libraries with regard to the paucity of resources, lack of funds and absence of bibliographic and physical accessibility to limited resources....

The sound financial management of an association requires more than creating and following a budget. It needs accountability, a complete knowledge of the association and its purpose, an awareness of its membership and environment, and an eye for day‐to‐day detail. This article compares the...

Because of recent US economic decline, the impact of budget cuts has been felt in most US economic sectors, including the materials budgets in libraries. Budget cuts or reversions obviously have a negative impact upon the dollars available for purchasing library materials. However, dealing with...

Purpose – Libraries rely on endowment revenue for collection development and general operating expenses. Endowment gifts, both for collection development and for general operating expenses, can be a significant priority for a library during this fund‐raising effort. As such, it is this...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to examine how weeding physical collections might obviate the need for compact shelving. Design/methodology/approach – Provides a viewpoint on how to manage space and budget within an academic library. Findings – The Daniel Library at The Citadel is...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the viewpoint that college students serve the same function as customers purchasing products from corporations. Design/methodology/approach – This paper gives comparisons and differences between the process of students learning through higher...