Funding and priorities : academic libraries : the library resource guide benchmark study on 2011 library spending plans

Abstract

The LRG North American Library Comparative Spending Reports, carefully broken out into three distinct library sector reports (public, academic, and special), provide librarians responsible for expenditures with comparative spending and investment data that has never previously been available. Each report is further segmented by library size in terms of audience served (public by patron population, academic by full-time enrollment served, special by organization size). Now, librarians can be armed with the facts comparing spending with libraries in their own sectors and of their own sizes.