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The Book Budget And Inflation, Metod M. Milac
The Book Budget And Inflation, Metod M. Milac
The Courier
This article points to the rising cost of books that occurred in the early 1980s and its affects on library budgets. The costs made it so that book acquisitions, essential for collection development, plummeted. This necessitated other sources of funding, such as the creation of "friends of the library" groups, such as the Library Associates of Syracuse University.
Research Libraries: Their Function, Friends, Funding And Future, Richard W. Couper
Research Libraries: Their Function, Friends, Funding And Future, Richard W. Couper
The Courier
A transcription of Richard Couper's address during the dedication of the Ernest S. Bird Library, who points to the harships and successes that resulted in the library's completion.