Re: Maintenance fees in operating or collections budgets? (5 additional responses)

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Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:21:11 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Katherine Marshall <k-marshall.1_at_onu.edu> 
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:44:57 -0400 

Most of our dues or fee-related items come out funds separate from our book & database buying funds, except for READEX ownership/maintenance fees. Although I *think* in the grand scheme of things, we would probably consider those funds as "collection development" related and not "operating". 

-- 
Katherine Marshall 
Acquisitions Librarian 
Taggart Law Library 
Ohio Northern University 
419.772.2250 
k-marshall.1_at_onu.edu 


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From: Forrest Link <linkf_at_tcnj.edu> 
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:48:28 -0400 (EDT) 

We have a line in the operating budget for this sort of thing. 


Forrest E. Link 
Acquisitions Librarian 
TCNJ Library 
The College of New Jersey 
linkf_at_tcnj.edu 

609.771.2412 
609.637.5177(fax) 


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From: Kitty Simmons <ksimmons_at_lasierra.edu> 
To: acqnet-l_at_lists.ibiblio.org 
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:07:20 -0700 

These costs come out of our operating budgets. 

___________________________________________________________________ 
Kitty J. Simmons 
Library Director Telephone: 951-785-2515 
La Sierra University Telephone: 951-785-2402 
Riverside, CA 92515 Fax: 951-785-2445 
E-Mail:ksimmons_at_lasierra.edu 
http://www.lasierra.edu/library/ Meet me at the Library! 


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From: "Black, Douglas M" <doblack_at_nmu.edu> 
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:03:04 -0400 

Hello, Kelly and all, 

Our operating fees cover all of those except consortial membership fees and serials-vendor fees, which are paid through acquisitions. Our acquisitions funds also cover ebook-vendor fees, maintenance fees for our link resolver and discovery platform, serials MARC updates, RDA Toolkit, Classification Web, professional-society memberships that give us access to journals and the odd e-resource, and a handful of resources available only to library staff (GobiPlus, Choice Reviews Online, and Doody's). Acquisitions also subsidizes interlibrary loan to a fixed amount annually; the Resource Sharing subscription and the rest of the borrowing fees come out of other lines. 

Some of the logic is simply legacy practice: RDA and ClassWeb replace former print resources, as do the review sources, even though not all of them were available to patrons. A proportion of ILL fees we consider part of just-in-time provision. The serials-MARC updates are related to our link-resolver and discovery tools; since OCLC and our ILS costs don't come out of Acquisitions, though, whether other back-end systems should is a different question entirely. For the moment, they do. 

I hope this helps! 

Douglas 

Douglas Black 
Assistant Professor 
Collection Development Librarian 
Northern Michigan University 
Marquette, MI 49855 
(906) 227-1208 
doblack_at_nmu.edu 


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From: Cynthia Holt <caholt1_at_gmail.com> 
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:55:18 -0400 

We cover ours in the operating budget. We also cover open access related costs that do not provide content to our users (such as supporting DOAJ) in the operating budget. OA costs that provide our users with content, such as BioOne, are paid from the collections budget. 
Sincerely, 
Cynthia Holt 
Associate University Librarian, Collection Services 
Concordia University 
Montreal, QC H3G 1M8 
514-848-2424 ext. 5255 
cynthia.holt_at_concordia.ca 



----Original Message-----Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 9:49 PM 

I'm curious to find out whether your libraries allocate collections-related maintenance costs in your collections or operating budgets? Some examples that we are assessing include ILS maintenance fees, OCLC fees, consortial membership fees, institutional repository fees, book vendor fees, and binding. 

Thanks, 

~Kelly 

Kelly Smith 
Interim Coordinator of Collection Services 
Eastern Kentucky University Libraries 
859-622-3062 
kelly.smith2_at_eku.edu 
http://libguides.eku.edu/profile/KellySmith 



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