Vendor Evaluation and Acquisition Budgets

Find insightful discussions on the impact of rising costs on library budgets and management in this groundbreaking book. Library administrators will benefit from the practical advice in these perceptive chapters evolved from the 1991 University of Oklahoma Libraries and University of Oklahoma Foundation annual conference. Vendor Evaluation and Acquisition Budgets presents well-rounded views of the contemporary library budget situation from a variety of contributors, including practicing librarians, researchers, and book vendor representatives. Find applicable strategies for meeting the library budget and management challenges that rising costs will create in the 1990s. Chapters thoroughly cover the relationship between vendors and acquisitions budgets, including current trends affecting the information environment, libraries, and vendors; changes in library-dealer relationships resulting from economic and technological factors; and conditions of research and the dissemination of information from published and unpublished avenues. Library managers and administrators will find pragmatic advice to use in their own libraries, such as suggestions for dealing with service charges and discounts, studies of use patterns and cost-effectiveness of current collection development decisions, vendors’perspective on criteria used to evaluate book vendors, and a collection of 30 different strategies for stretching the acquisitions budget.