Archive for the 'Business Plan' Category

Whether you are making a justification for staff additions, new software, new online resources, next year’s budget, or the myriad of other reasons libraries need resources, you will do a better job of solving problems or improving services if you use a business case to plead your case.   What is a business case?  The many books and articles [...]

I talked in an earlier post about the need to operate libraries as if they were businesses.   If that is so, the first thing you would want to consider would be to develop a business plan.  Why?  For-profit businesses use their business plans to obtain the funding they need from banks, etc. to move forward [...]