GEN: printing costs & library budgets

["Catharine D. Wolf" <hwolf@FRONTIERNET.NET>]

Jeff  wrote:
(That 10 cents per page is very telling, too, when we consider that=20
former library budgets may be being expended in one time student=20
personal research use, where the same research information has =
heretofore
been accessible time and again, from the same shared in-house=20
volumes... )



Where is the money for printouts coming from?
In my school district, it comes directly out of the library budget.  I  =
have ordered $350 worth of paper for next year, and a dozen ribbons.   =
Our experience with the internet is short in this building-connectivity  =
started in November-and I fear that the number of ribbons will be  =
insufficient.  I am grateful not to have a color printer.
We are spending about 7% of the library budget to keep the printers =
available.=20
What percentage are the rest of you spending?
Holly Wolf
Librarian, Palmyra-Macedon High School
Palmyra, NY
hwolf@frontiernet.net

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