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Subject: Fund allocation
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 17:37:41 -0500
From: Liu Liu <liuliu@usa.com>

Hi,

Our College is a 2-year community college with a small
library budget.  We have a budget for periodicals, but we
do not do fund allocation for different subject
areas/education
programs.  Currently, we encourage the faculty to suggest
periodicals to us, and we pretty much buy what they suggest.
As a result, some departments have spent the periodical fund
a lot more than the other departments.

1.  I used to work in a big university library where they
allocate library fund to different departments (with
periodical fund as a certain percentage of the total
allocated book fund).  Is it common that communicty
college libraries do not do fund allocation because of
the small library budgets?

2.  Do you do fund allocation for periodicals?  If yes,
how did you come up with your formula?

3.  If no, how do you make sure the periodical collection
is balanced?

I would appreciate if I could be directed to any
literature on this subject.

Thanks

Pauline Smith
Librarian