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SUGGESTION:If the three Deans

Submitted by smb6 on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 16:56.

SUGGESTION:

If the three Deans (ILR, Johnson, Hotel) appoint more of their librarians as lecturers, the librarians would be able to teach CREDIT COURSES. In turn, these credit courses would bring in tuition monies.  In effect, the libraries would be partially self-funding.

The argument is, therefore:  Expanding some services such as teaching, would offset costs (an effective reduction in budget) while adding to the VALUE that the respective libraries bring to their constituencies.

This plays to the strength of the three schools-- A MARKET PLACE SOLUTION.

Today, again, I've had

Submitted by vac11 on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 14:52.

Today, again, I've had someone asking in chat about how to get full borrowing privileges.  This is not an uncommon question.


I'm sure I'm not the first to suggest this, but have we considered "selling" full borrower privileges to endowed libraries?  This would be a second level, a fuller level, above the $250 borrower's card which we could continue.  We could calculate how much it would cost to offer borrowing, ILL, Borrow Direct, recall, etc. and figure in a profit for us, and the price tag might be $2-3000 a year or more.  High as it might be, I think there might actually be people who'd pay it.  We could have a contract and get a credit card so that any books which were lost would be charged the full $75.


And, actually, public relations-wise, it might not be such a bad thing to actually try to quantify what our services really cost, that everything's not actually free.


No need to respond.  Just a thought.