[Eril-l] Budgeting in Academic Libraries

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On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 7:43 AM Electronic Resources in Libraries discussion
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> My 2 cents:
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> Get hold of their syllabi and determine what types of resources are used
> at what stage of the students’ education. Do most first year courses assign
> texts? At what point are journal articles used? Only used (3rd year
> classes? 4th year?)? Are they really using print books and at what level?
> E-books? All this allows you to be fully educated and it can be a surprise
> to the faculty also, in my experience, and get them to think more broadly.
> Assignment-specific is a good metric also.
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> Jennifer Soutter (she/her)
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> Indigenous Outreach Librarian
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> Leddy Library
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> University of Windsor
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> We are all Treaty people. As humans we live and work in relationship to
> CUSMA, the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement. Why is it so hard to
> accept we also live and work in relationship to First Nations on their
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> *From:* Eril-l <eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org> *On Behalf Of *Electronic
> Resources in Libraries discussion list via Eril-l
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 21, 2023 9:23 AM
> *To:* eril-l at lists.eril-l.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Eril-l] Budgeting in Academic Libraries
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> Hi Sarah,   Good question, I'll be interested in what others have to say
> on this as well.
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> We ask faculty to specify which course(s) will have assignments that
> require the use a new resource by students.  Our goal is to focus their
> attention beyond the "this is generally relevant to my discipline and would
> be nice to have" thinking.
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> You might also want to ask questions about what library resources they
> currently use, probing whether or not they are aware of the relevant
> resources that you already have, before acquiring new things.  We do
> sometimes get requests for things that we either already have, or for which
> we have something substantially similar.  If we already have something
> similar, then we may ask them to compare that directly to a new resource
> and explain which they prefer (since we may not be able to afford both).
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> Best, Theresa
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> Theresa Arndt
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> Dickinson College Library
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> arndtt at dickinson.edu
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> Hi friends! As we prepare our library budget for next year, we are
> consulting each faculty to see if they have any resource requests,  program
> changes that will require additional library resources, or are developing a
> new program in order to account for these expenses in the budget. This is
> the first year we are doing these consultations, so I was wondering if
> anyone has advice or questions that they think are important to ask.  Our
> budget might be a little different than the typical university library
> budget because it is more of a "wish list" that we submit to our accounting
> department and then before it is time to purchase a new database we
> complete a full evaluation with a trial and collect faculty feedback.
> Although a new resource is on our budget, it still does not necessarily
> mean we are going to subscribe to it. Any advice or suggested readings
> would be greatly appreciated!
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