[LM_NET] TARGET: Creating a library budget

[Barbara Braxton <barbara.288@BIGPOND.COM>]

Because your Australian colleagues are on their long summer break (our academic 
year is February-December) I am seeking your help as I try to prepare some basic 
tools about library management for those just starting out,    My target today is 
budgets and while I have all I need about the why and how, I just need some input 
into the what.  So far I have identified these headings but what are the essentials 
that you would add that I have missed?  I realise things like SCIS won’t mean 
anything to you and most Australian schools do not use jobbers to prepare their 
books so that cost is not included.

 

a.         Library Administration

            Access to SCIS or other cataloguing service

            Library Management System subscription

            Stationery (including barcode readers, barcodes, book covering 
materials, spine and genre labels, ID stamps)

            Student stationery (if you provide paper, pencils etc for student 
use)

            Photocopying and printing costs

            Postage, telephone and internet access costs

            Security 

            Signage and display materials

            Other items such as bookends, wire easels, index blocks, hanging 
bags, chart-hanging stands, tubs for series etc 

            Purchase of essential library tools such as Dewey Decimal 
Classification manual or SCIS Subject Headings List

            Payment of subscriptions to professional associations such as 
Australian School Library Association 

b.         Collection Development

            Subscriptions to databases, web-based resources and other services 

            Essential curriculum resources regardless of faculty (based on new 
curricula, identified program priorities or collection mapping)

            Replacement of weeded/ damaged resources

            Faculty or year-level requirements and requests

            Essential fiction (such as CBC shortlist, class sets of novels)

            Development of existing programs such as Premier’s Reading 
Challenge

            New but non-essential fiction resources (regardless of format)

            New but non essential non fiction resources (regardless of format)

            Professional resources for staff

            Subscriptions to periodicals

c.         Equipment

            Cameras, projectors, televisions, DVD recorders/players etc

d.         Capital works

            Upgrades, additions, maintenance, repairs to existing facilities

 

I appreciate any help you can offer, and know that you are sharing your wisdom with 
more than just me.

 

Thank you

Barbara

 

 

Barbara Braxton

Teacher Librarian

COOMA NSW 2630

AUSTRALIA

 

E. barbara.288@bigpond.com

Together we learn from each other 

 


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