Alternative Funding for Public Libraries: Trends, Sources, and the Heated Arguments that Surround It

Macchio, Erica

Citation:

Agosto, D. (2008). Alternative Funding for Public Libraries: Trends, Sources, and the Heated Arguments that Surround It Academic Librarianship 31, 115-140.

Summary:

This article is about how libraries should consider alternative funding to help fund their programs and supplement their budgets.  Both sides of the argument are provided and I think that this is a good topic that most libraries are guaranteed to cross.  Budgets are no longer funding all the materials that a library needs to survive.  The price of books and databases have gone up and this will force librarians and their boards to consider what they can do without.  When they go without, the whole community suffers. 

Evaluation:

I think that this is a good article and that the topic is important to the library world.  It provides us with a topic that all libraries are facing or will be facing at some point in its existence.