Improving the Utility of Public Library Budgets: Information Used in Public Libraries in the Commonwealth of Virginia
Blue Wooldridge
(Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia)
Virginia Rose Cherry
(Associate Librarian, Richard Bland College of The College of William and Mary, Petersburg, Virginia)
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Abstract
A public library budget can serve varied purposes: a contract, a management tool, a communication mechanism, a financial control mechanism, a motivator, a plan, a major policy‐making tool and as an instrument of democracy. This paper presents a methodology that public library directors can use to determine if the budget contains the information they need in order to make decisions.
Citation
Wooldridge, B. and Rose Cherry, V. (1994), "Improving the Utility of Public Library Budgets: Information Used in Public Libraries in the Commonwealth of Virginia", The Bottom Line, Vol. 7 No. 2, pp. 23-31. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb025413
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1994, MCB UP Limited