Strategic Librarian

Anyone responsible for creating and managing a library budget knows how difficult those tasks can be. Whether firms are large or small, there is probably a focus on tracking how much a practice or office costs the firm against what they bring into the firm.  For the firm libraries, this means budgeting by practice or office or [...]

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 [...]