CDL: Budgeting for shelf-ready

From:
William Monroe <William_Monroe_at_brown.edu>

     I would like to get some idea how academics libraries
budget for shelf-ready books, or even for general approval
plans.

     At Brown, we make allocations for each discipline for
our general domestic approval plan, and track expenditures.
This allows us to report on level of support for different
programs in the university.   The assignment of funds to
particular titles, however, is done by selectors at the
approval shelves.  As we begin profiling to receive at least
some of these books shelf-ready, the question has arisen
as to how we might track these expenditures.

     I know that some libraries make a large allocation for
approvals that is not tracked by discipline, but simply
considered a "general expenditure".  How does this work
for reporting support of individual programs?   Are there
other ways that university libraries track such expenditures?

--WSM

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