Allocating the academic library's book budget: Historical perspectives and current reflections

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 140-144

  Werking, Richard Hume ^a  

^a TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (61)

1. American Library Association Handbook of Organizations, 1986/1987 (Chicago: ALA, 1986), p. 266.
2. American Library Association Handbook of Organizations, 1986/1987 (Chicago: ALA, 1986), p. 266., Ibid.
3. The Apportionment of Book-Funds in College and University Libraries," Bulletin of the American Library Association, (hereafter ALA Bulletin)(1908):341-345;.
4. and Rolf Erickson, "Koch, Theodore Wesley (1871-1941)," in Dictionary of American Library Biography (Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1978), pp. 290-294.
5. A recent exception to this generalization is the current debate over providing online services from the materials budget. See Jay Martin Poole and Gloriana St. Clair, "Funding Online Services from the Materials Budget," and the reactions by Sheila Dowd, John H. Whaley, Jr., and Marcia Pankake, College & Research Libraries 47 (May 1986): 225-237.
6. Harry Bach, "Why Allocate?" Library Resources & Technical Services 8 (Spring 1964): 161-165.
7. See also the subsequent discussion in the same issue of Library Resources & Technical Services, pp. 408-412.
8. William E. McGrath, Ralph C. Huntsinger, and Gary R. Barber, "An Allocation Formula Derived from a Factor Analysis of Academic Departments," College & Research Libraries 30 (January 1969): 51.
9. Herman Fussier, "The Larger University Library," College & Research Libraries 14 (January 1953): 363.
10. " Apportionment," p. 342.
11. Ibid., p. 344., Apportionment.
12. Rosemary Magrill and Doralynn J. Hickey, Acquisitions Management and Collection Development in Libraries (Chicago: ALA, 1984), pp. 36-38.
13. K. Suzanne Johnson and Joel S. Rutstein, "The Politics of Book Fund Allocations: A Case Study," in New Horizons for Academic Libraries, ed. Robert D. Stueart and Richard D. Johnson (New York: K.G. Saur, 1979), p. 331.
14. Hans Muller, "The Management of College Library Book Budgets," College & Research Libraries 2 (September 1941): 321;.
15. and William Randall, "The College Library Book Budget," Library Quarterly 1 (October 1931): 421.
16. Charles M. Baker, "Apportioning of College and University Library Book Funds," Library Journal 57 (February 15, 1932): 167;.
17. Lam-bertus Hekhuis, "A Formula for Distribution of Library Funds Among the Departments," Library Journal 61 (August 1936), pp. 574-575;.
18. H.E. Stetson, "Distribution of Library Book Fund," Library Journal 63 (July 1938): 521;.
19. and Ralph E. Ellsworth, "Some Aspects of the Problem of Allocating Book Funds Among Departments in Universities," Library Quarterly 12 (July 1942): 487-488.
20. MJames D. Ramer and Joseph Boykin, "The Book Budget in Academic Libraries," Southeastern Librarian 16 (Spring 1966): 40-43;.
21. Robert E. Burton, "Formula Budgeting: An Example," Special Libraries 66 (February 1975): 61-67;.
22. Mark A. Dombrowski and Charles M. Kern, "Departmental Budgets in a Small Academic Library," Michigan Librarian 44 (Winter 1978): 4-6;.
23. Donna Goehner, "Allocation by Formula," Collection Management 5 (Fall-Winter 1983): 161-173;.
24. and Stella Bentley and David Farrell, "Beyond Retrenchment: The Reallocation of a Library Materials Budget," Journal of Academic Librarianship 10 (January 1985): 321-325.
25. Randall, "College Library Book Budget," pp. 421, 422-423, 426-428.
26. Randall, "College Library Book Budget," pp. 421, Ibid.
27. Ellsworth, "Some Aspects," pp. 492-493.
28. Stetson, "Distribution," p. 521;.
29. Jasper Schad, "Allocating Materials Budgets in Institutions of Higher Education," Journal of Academic Librarianship 3 (January 1978): 329;.
30. and Peter Sweetman and Paul Wiedemann, "Developing a Library Book-Fund Allocation Formula," Journal of Academic Librarianship 6 (November 1980): 271.
31. Virgil F. Massman and Kelly Patterson, "A Minimum Budget for Current Acquisitions," College & Research Libraries 31 (March 1970): 83-88;.
32. and Bette Dillehay, "Book Budget Allocation: Subjective or Objective Approach," Special Libraries 62 (December 1971): 509-514.
33. Massman and Patterson, "Minimum Budget," p. 84.
34. Sweetman and Wiedemann, "Developing A Library Book-Fund," p. 271.
35. Rebecca T. Lenzini, "Prices of U.S. & Foreign Published Materials," The Bowker Annual of Library and Book Trade Information (New York: Bowker, 1986), pp. 444-447.
36. Kathryn A. Soupiset, "College Book Price Information, 1986," CHOICE 24 (March 1987): 1006-1010.
37. In 1981, Werking and Getchell advocated the use of CHOICE data and urged that it be systematically compiled. See Richard Hume Werking and Charles M. Getchell, Jr., "Using CHOICE as a Mechanism for Allocating Book Funds in an Academic Library," College & Research Libraries 42 (March 1981): 134-138.
38. William E. McGrath, "A Pragmatic Book Allocation Formula for Academic and Public Libraries with a Test for its Effectiveness, Library Resources & Technical Services 19 (Fall 1975): 356-369;.
39. and McGrath, letter to the editor, College & Research Libraries 35 (September 1974): 370.
40. Pittsburgh University Studies of Collection Usage: A Symposium," Journal of Academic Librarianship 5 (May 1979): 60-70;.
41. and Herman H. Fussier and Julian L. Simon, Patterns in the Use of Books in Large Research Librar-ies (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1969).
42. Soupiset, "College Book Price," p. 1008.
43. McGrath, Huntsinger, and Barber, "Allocation Formula," pp. 51-62;.
44. McGrath, "Pragmatic Book Allocation," pp. 356-369;.
45. S.K. Goyal, "Allocation of Library Funds to Different Departments of a University-An Operational Research Approach," College & Research Libraries (May 1973): 219-222;.
46. Joseph J. Kohut, "Allocating the Book Budget: A Model," College & Research Li-braries 35 (May 1974): 192-199;.
47. Steven D. Gold, "Allocating the Book Budget: An Economic Model," College & Research Libraries (September 1975): 397-402;.
48. Joseph J. Kohut and John F. Walker, "Allocating the Book Budget: Equity and Economic Effi-ciency, College & Research Libraries 36 (September 1975): 403-410;.
49. and Thomas J. Pierce, "An Empirical Approach to the Allocation of the University Library Book Budget," Collection Management 2 (Spring 1978): 39-56.
50. See also letters to the editor in College & Research Libraries 35 (September 1974): 370-371, .
51. and (July 1976): 369., College & Research Libraries 35
52. Dorothy C. Senghas and Edward A. Warrs, "Book Allocations: The Key to a Plan for Collection Development," Library Acquisitions: Practice and Theory 6, 1 (1982): 48-49.
53. Goyal, "Allocation of Library Funds," pp. 219-220.
54. Gold, "Allocating," p. 402.
55. Gary M. Shirk, "Allocation Formulas for Budgeting Library Materials: Science or Pro-cedure?" Collection Management 6 (Fall/Winter 1984): 46. (This issue of the journal was copyrighted in 1985.).
56. Ibid., pp. 38-39., Gary M. Shirk, "Allocation Formulas for Budgeting Library Materials: Science or Procedure?" Collection Management 6, 1984: 46
57. Baker, "Apportioning," p. 167.
58. Stetson, "Distribution," p. 521.
59. William McPheron, "Quantifying the Allocation of Monograph Funds: An Instance in Practice, College & Research Libraries 44 (March 1983): 117.
60. This excellent article demonstrates how one library established literature size as the foundation of an allocation arrangement, and then made the necessary local adjustments using other criteria.
61. Fremont Rider, "Library Cost Accounting," Library Quarterly 6 (October 1936): 381.