Numbers, Your Library, And You -- Factoids -- Using Spreadsheets To Talk About Numbers -- Similar Libraries -- Talking About Money -- Questions To Help You Focus -- Kinds Of Budgets -- Lump-sum Budgets -- Formula Budgets -- Line-item Budgets -- Program Budgets -- Performance Budgets -- Zero-based Budgets -- Which Kind Of Budget Should Your Library Use? -- Questions To Help You Focus -- Measuring Ourselves -- Know Your Numbers -- Formal Standards -- Rule-of-thumb Standards -- Statistics -- Questions To Help You Focus -- Alternate Resources: Grants And Endowments -- Grants -- Endowments -- Volunteer! -- Questions To Help You Focus -- More Alternate Resources: Volunteers, Fund Raising -- The Whys And Hows Of Volunteer Programs -- What Do Volunteers Do Or Not Do? -- Volunteers And Fund Raising -- Cautionary Note -- Questions To Help You Focus -- Fees For Library Services -- Internal Transactions: Charging Back And Charging Out -- External Transactions: Charging Fees -- Outsourcing -- What To Charge? -- Marketing Fee-based Services -- The Independent Sector -- Questions To Help You Focus -- Living With The Budget -- Keeping Track Of The Budget -- Planning The Budget -- The Budget And A New Job -- The Budget And A New Library -- The Budget And A New Building -- Presenting The Budget -- When Budget Cuts Loom -- Living With The Budget -- Questions To Help You Focus. Alice Sizer Warner. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [93]-98) And Index.

Budgeting: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians (How to Do It Manuals for Librarians)

Alice Sizer Warner

Neal-Schuman; Neal-Schuman Publishers

Neal-Schuman Publishers, Incorporated

How-to-do-it manuals for libraries, no. 79, New York [etc, 1997

United States, United States of America

Includes bibliographical references (p. [93]-98) and index.

This manual for librarians offers both background information and practical advice on library budgeting. Seven chapters make up this book: (1) Numbers, Your Library, and You; (2) Kinds of Budgets; (3) Measuring Ourselves; (4) Alternate Resources: Grants and Endowments; (5) More Alternate Resources: Volunteers, Fund Raising; (6) Fees for Library Services; and (7) Living with the Budget. The basics of budgeting are covered, including how to: gather and talk about library "numbers"; best present financial data in various kinds of meetings; relate budgets to professional standards; package budget numbers for grant proposals and other fundraising activities; set, collect, and account for various fees and fines; and deal with current and threatened budget cuts. An appendix lists selected newsletters, books, and articles about budgeting. Contains an index. (AEF)

This manual on budgeting is aimed at library administrators. It covers: what a library budget can tell about a library and the community it serves; justifying, analyzing, and presenting a library budget; different types of budget; statistics; and efficiency versus effectiveness.

x, 101 pages ; 28 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-98) and index

2023-06-28