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Working Documents
- Library Biennium Budget Request excel file, 3/31/06
- Justifications for Library Budget Requests doc | pdf, 3/30/2006
- UHM Library Budget excel workbook, data for 1997-2007
- 2003 LibQual Summary Report
- An Association of Research Libraries (ARL) created survey of UHM Library user perceptions
- 2006 LibQual Reports
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Articles/Websites About Scholarly Communication & Libraries
- Manoa Library Senate Forums on the Budget, January 2007
powerpoint | pdf
- Presentation by library faculty about the UH Manoa Library budget with comparisons to peer institutions, challenges to growing and maintaining the research collections for Manoa, and the immediate impacts on the collections because of the current library budget crisis.
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Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Costs 1986-2005 pdf
- Graph shows the high rates of increase in costs of journal subscriptions over 20 years and the subsequent reduction in the number of journal subscriptions and books purchased by ARL libraries. UH Manoa Library is an ARL member.
- Serial Wars, Library Journal, April 15, 2007
- Description of STM publishing, commercial publishers' profits, publishing mergers, and the challenges to research libraries because of inflationary journal costs.
- UC Berkeley Collections Management
- The UC Berkeley Libraries has an excellent site that describes Berkeley library funding, expenditures, usage data, etc. This is a model for transparency in library decision-making that also makes clear that the challenges that the UH Manoa Library faces are not unique to Manoa but are shared by all academic research libraries at research intensive universities.
- A Challenge for the Library Acquisition Budget, D-Lib Magazine (May/June 2007) 13 (5-6)
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