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MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION

Financial Management FORTHCOMING FORTHCOMING
of Libraries and Short-Term Staff, Planning Cloud-Based
Information Centers
Long-Term Benefits Disaster Recovery for
ROBERT H. BURGER
Making the Most of Interns, Digital Assets
Volunteers, Student The Innovative
Workers, and Temporary Librarian’s Guide
Staff in Libraries
ROBIN HASTINGS
NORA J. BIRD AND
MICHAEL A. CRUMPTON

August 2016, 370pp, 7x10
Print: 978-1-4408-5013-4
$85.00, £66.00, €78.00
eBook: 978-1-4408-5014-1

December 2017, 155pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4
“ professional who needs to February 2018, 184pp, 7x10 Print: 978-1-4408-4238-2
Any librarian or information
$55.00, £43.00, €50.00
learn about finance, whether Print: 978-1-4408-4176-7 eBook: 978-1-4408-4239-9
in graduate school or working $65.00, £50.00, €60.00
in the field, will find this book eBook: 978-1-4408-4177-4
” of planning to safeguard your library’s
beneficial. This essential guide covers the basics
—Library Journal, January 11, 2017 This book offers a novel, more efficient, digital assets—library catalog and
and mutually beneficial approach to circulation data, online resources, etc.—
Covering everything from auditing and attracting, training, and working with by taking advantage of cloud-based
budgeting to contracts, revenue and short-term staff in ways that benefit all storage.
expenditures, forecasting, and ethics involved: the organization, the short-
in financial management, this book term staff, and library personnel in FEATURES
addresses the full spectrum of topics general. • Describes strategies that enable
and skills needed by today’s library libraries to make certain their online
managers. FEATURES presences stay up and running,
• Demonstrates how to get the despite environmental disasters
FEATURES most out of short-term staff and • Provides practical advice for the
• Addresses a topic of growing concern volunteers, while also meeting the disaster planning process, with
to library managers that is applicable needs of these individuals checklists and templates for librarians
to all types of libraries • Covers all types of short-term to use immediately
• Offers readers a formal, library workers: volunteers, service • Explains the best use of cloud-based
comprehensive introduction to learning students, interns, work-study tools to make disaster planning
financial management—not just an students, and grant personnel affordable for every library
aspect such as cost benefit analysis, • Documents how having experienced • Presents information that is relevant
budgeting, or fundraising staff mentor and collaborate with and useful for any size library, with
• Includes forms and worksheets that short-term staff presents new examples and information for all
help readers better understand the opportunities for learning and growth kinds of libraries
concepts as well as provides the direct benefit
• Supplies clear and detailed of completing tasks and projects
explanations of financial concepts more quickly
and practical applications

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