Friday, September 19, 2014

Planning, money and content


Strategic Planning
Joan, Yamila and Gary are still spending a lot of time working on the libraries’ strategic plan. There will be another open house on 9/23 on the 4th floor to gather input from everyone.

Financial operations
Cindy is part of a small group who will be looking at the financial operations of the libraries with help from two consultants.  Mary Holcomb will be available to the group to discuss collection expenditures.  The group will begin meeting in early October.

Collection Budget
UAL will be covering our projected deficit in the collections budget and they have also given us a 6% increase in funding - equal to the estimated rate of inflation.  This process (with UAL covering some of our costs, etc.) is complicated and will require coordination between Collections and Cindy but also between our folks and Steve Bosch (Collections at UAL) and Virginia Valenzuela (Business Manager for UAL).  Cindy, Mary, Amanda, Steve and Virginia met this week to begin working out the details.

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