Primarily, by percentage of circ. If what we have classified as fiction is
23% of our total adult circulation, fiction gets 23% of the adult budget.
We're not as strict w/ media. Our current media breakdown is 50% videos,
35% books on cassette, 10% music CDs, 5% educational software, of the media
budget. We set aside $1,000 of the books on cas allotment for replacement
tapes and the rest goes for new acquisitions.
It is traditional for our small branch locations to get a flat $1,000
each. In lean years this was cut to $500/ea.
Julie Bixby
Huntington Beach Public Library, CA
ELEANOR COOK wrote:
>
> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 13:36:20 -0500
> From: Kathy Shropshire (Greensboro, NC Public Library) <pye01_at_bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Materials budget formulas
>
> Our library is looking at different methods of determing the breakdown of
> the materials budget in distributing funds for adult and juvenile books,
> videos, books on tape, CDs, DVDs and eletronic resources.
> We have a central library and eight branches. We have 581,757 items in our
> holdings, we circulated 1,530,999 items in 1999/2000 and our new materials
> budget is $643,365.
> I would greatly appreciated learning from other public libraries what
> formulas they use for determing the breakdown of their material's budget.
>
> Thank you for any help!
> Kathy Shropshire
> Assistant Director, Acquisitions and Materials Services
> Greensboro Public Library
> PO Box 3178
> Greensboro,NC 27402
> 336.373.2719
> kathy.shropshire_at_ci.greensboro.nc.us
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