Challenges for academic libraries in difficult economic times
A new guide from the Research Information Network focuses on how academic librarians are experiencing and responding to financial cuts in the current economic climate.
Based upon data gathered in the UK and internationally, and focus groups with senior librarians during late 2009, the guide looks at the financial position of libraries, their strategies for dealing with challenging economic circumstances, and the value of libraries.
After a decade of growth in budgets and services, academic librarians now expect a sustained period of cuts over the next three to five years. The scale of these cuts means librarians are having to reconsider the kinds and levels of service they can provide in support of their universities missions.
This guide shows how librarians are responding to the issues of balancing expenditure between information resources and staffing and how they plan to sustain levels of service, as well as developing new services to meet new needs. It demonstrates that library directors need the support of senior managers across the higher education sector, as well as from publishers and other information providers, to help address the challenges, as well as the opportunities, faced.
The guide is available to download from the link below, along with a short two-page briefing. Hard copies are also available to order to distribute to colleagues, email contact@rin.ac.uk
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Is this guide looking specifically at University Libraries, or does it also look at city run libraries? I ask because in my own town (although I live in the US our governmental policies are not all that different) during the recent recession, our library saw a boom in “customers” and was thereby able to add a wing they had been planning to build for over 5 years. What they found was that more people were reading and checking out books rather than buying books or going to the movies for entertainment. Although it is free to check out a book, there are of course late fees, and with the surge of people checking out books they saw a dramatic increase in late fees. I found it to be interesting that the library was able to add on an addition during such economic times until I read an article about how they were funding it. Thanks for the post and keep them coming.
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