Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface to the first edition
  • Preface to the second edition
  • Acknowledgements
  • Tables
  • Figures
  • 1 Context
  • 1.1 Libraries, information and the financial environment: definitions and purpose
  • 1.2 The financial managerial environment
  • 1.3 Economic and financial pressures faced by libraries
  • 1.4 The need for management information
  • 1.5 Library and information organizations: defining characteristics
  • 1.6 The changing organizational environment
  • 1.7 Contemporary public and organizational life
  • 1.8 New paradigms in organizational management
  • 1.9 Impacts of contemporary change on the nature of professional practice2 Resource management: strategies and techniques
  • 2.1 The nature of resource management in library and information services
  • 2.2 The requirements of contemporary library and information management
  • 2.3 Business strategy
  • 2.4 Business planning
  • 2.5 The strategy of library and information service businesses
  • 2.6 Planning the productive process: constructing the business plan
  • 2.7 Programme basis and definition
  • 2.8 Resource distribution and allocation
  • 2.9 Budgetary planning
  • 2.10 Budgetary policy and budgetary strategy2.11 Budgetary structures: the basis for planning
  • 2.12 Budgetary management and monitoring
  • 2.13 Resources: an overview of the main types
  • 2.14 Resource management models and the process of resource management
  • 2.15 Resourcing levels for library and information services
  • 3 Financial management
  • 3.1 Concepts
  • 3.2 Sources of finance and income
  • 3.3 Planning and budgeting: the financial dimension
  • 3.4 Cost centre development
  • 3.5 Microfinancial management and procedures
  • 3.6 Devolved budgeting and business units3.7 Market testing and contracting out/full cost recovery and commercialization
  • 3.8 Income generation and the revenue budget
  • 3.9 Growth and contraction: financial implications
  • 3.10 Capital funding and strategies
  • 3.11 Projection and forecasting
  • 3.12 The changing budgetary environment
  • 3.13 Summary and progression
  • 4 Information needs and requirements
  • 4.1 Defining management information by the resource management process
  • 4.2 Defining categories of management information
  • 4.3 Performance measures
  • 4.4. Evaluation4.5 Cost measurement, output measurement and evaluation
  • 4.6 Financial data and cost data
  • 4.7 Cost data: needs, requirements and strategies
  • 4.8 Managerial and economic structure
  • 4.9 Further reading: Goals and performance and the study of performance and evaluation
  • 5 Methods of cost measurement
  • 5.1 Service cost structure: input, throughput, output, und budgets and costs
  • 5.2 Types of cost study for library and information services
  • 5.3 The categorization of costs
  • 5.4 Calculation of costs