Developing a databased budget allocation strategy: The University of Arizona Library experience

Abstract

The library literature provides numerous accounts of the efforts made in libraries ‐ particularly academic libraries ‐ to develop a formula for allocating the materials budget. Explains how, at the University of Arizona, a group of librarians responsible for information resources development and preservation took on the task of leading the library in all the activities associated with collection development. The design of a strategy for allocating the information access budget based on data regarding the needs of the library users is a crucial portion of this assignment. The resulting information will be used to guide the budget allocation process. Describes the steps involved in the first phase of the project and summarizes the plan for the next two phases.

The collection development literature of 1996: a bibliographic essay

“…A user-centered information access budget allocation process at the University of Arizona was depicted by Promis (1996). M. described a new formula developed at Monash University for allocating book and periodical acquisitions funds, while Lafferty, Warning, and Vlies (1996) described an acquisitions formula introduced at the University of Technology, Sydney.…”