Chapter 24 Instructor Supplement:
Managing Budgets

Chapter 24 Learning Objectives

After completing this chapter, readers should have a better understanding of:

• how to plan a budget aimed at helping an information organization achieve its strategic objectives.

Chapter 24 Instructor PowerPoint

Downloadable PowerPoint presentation and PowerPoint notes for course instruction. These files are only accessible to instructors who have adopted Information Services Today: An Introduction (3rd ed) for their course. To request access, please click on the images below or email Sandy Hirsh.

Chapter 24 Discussion Questions

The following questions are included in the textbook.

1. List the types of funding sources for information organizations. Which sources offer consistent funding for the organization? Which sources are inconsistent?

2. The COVID-19 pandemic created a full range of challenges to library operations; for some, there were significant funding losses and substantial new expenses. Please describe any ideas for the library’s resources to be more reliable to address a challenge like this?

Additional questions proposed by the author but not included in the textbook.

1. If you were creating a plan to eliminate library fines, how would you approach the governing body to consider the idea?

2. Stakeholders are important to the budgeting process. Can you name four stakeholder groups and what interest they have in the library’s budget?

3. The COVID-19 pandemic created a full range of challenges to library operations; for some, there were significant funding losses and substantial new expenses. Please describe any ideas for the library’s resources to be more reliable to address a challenge like this?

Handouts

The following documents are formatted to share with students as handouts.

Related Chapters

The following chapters are referenced in Chapter 24 and may assist in expanding your classroom instruction and discussions.

• Chapter 9: Learning and Research Institutions: Academic Libraries

• Chapter 10: Community Anchors for Lifelong Learning: Public Libraries

• Chapter 15: Curation and Preservation

• Chapter 21: Strategic Planning

• Chapter 23: Community Resilience

• Chapter 40: Leadership Skills for Today’s Global Information Landscape