[Publib] Budget cuts - hours vs. materials

[Larra Clark]

Hi Marc:

 

I'm sorry to hear about the dilemma you find yourself in.  

 

In case it's useful to you (and others), I thought I'd forward a link to
a report Denise Davis, director of the ALA Office for Research &
Statistics, produced in 2006: Funding Issues in U.S. Public Libraries,
Fiscal Years 2003-2006.

http://www.ala.org/ala/ors/reports/fundingissuesinuspls.pdf

http://www.ala.org/ala/pressreleases2006/march2006/fundingcuts.cfm.

 

Libraries reported that when operating budgets decline, reductions in
staff, services and collections follow this pattern, in priority of
order of cuts:

1. Materials (average of 68.3 percent of libraries responding) 

2. Staffing (average of 41.6 percent of libraries responding) 

3. Hours open (average of 24.6 percent of libraries responding) 

4. Electronic access (12.6 percent of libraries responding) 

 

Regards, Larra Clark

 

Larra Clark

ALA Office for Research & Statistics

50 E. Huron

Chicago, IL 60611

312-280-2129

800-545-2433 x2129

www.ala.org/plinternetfunding
<http://www.ala.org/ala/ors/plftas/pullibfunandtechaccstudy.cfm> 

 

 

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