RE: Budget Allocation Process, a different twist.
From:
<JHARWELL_at_Rollins.edu>
Hi Tracie, this is exactly the method we use. All of our patrons are
encouraged to recommend purchases for the collection. We keep track of
the requestors internally and notify them when the items arrive. We use
fund codes to track them by department, so that each year we can produce
a report showing us how active each department (and faculty member) is
in requesting purchases. However, they're not really coming from
separate funds. It's all a single pool.
We do divide serials by department, but I've been thinking about moving
in the same direction with those. While we don't use an allocation
formula for serials, we've been aiming to keep each department's spend
from increasing. In other words, if a department wants to add a
subscription, they need to cancel one(s) that they've requested in the
past, to make up the cost.
Hope this helps,
Jonathan
Received on Fri Sep 27 2013 - 03:06:06 EDT