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Basic Skills: Resources for Librarians

Library Finance

Topic 1: The Budget Cycle

Assigned Readings:

Making Budget Presentations. ALA Advocacy U.

Additional Resources:

State and Local Government Budgets in Nebraska, by A.L. (Roy) Frederick and Michael Lundeen.  University of Nebraska - Lincoln. 1984.  G84-735

Budget Checklist.  Indianhead Federated Library System, [Eau Claire, WI]

Budgeting for Public Libraries.  Northeast Iowa Library Service Area

Developing the Library Budget.  Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

State Aid to Public Libraries

http://www.icpl.org/policies/401-finance.pdf

Library Department Capital Improvement Projects, FY 2007-2011 City of Bentonville, Arkansas

Topic 2: Keeping Track

Assigned Readings:
Additional Resources:

So You Want to Learn Bookkeeping, by Dave Marshall. BeanCounter.

Accounting Terminology Guide New York State Society of CPAs.

Getting Started with Excel

Topic 3: Purchasing

Assigned Readings:

Best Practices in Contracting for Services.  Nebraska Auditor of Public Accounts.

Discount Purchasing Programs - Databases and eResources

Discount Purchasing Programs - Books and Supplies

The Insurance Basics: Property, Liability and People

LJ's Book Buying Survey 2011: Uphill Battle

Additional Resources:

Alliance for Nonprofits Insurance

Liblicense

What is a sinking fund?

Topic 4: The Library Foundation and Fund-Raising

Assigned Readings:

"Grassroots Fundraising Campaigns: Tips From the Trenches," by Cindy Brennan,  Alki,   December, 1991. Vol. 7, No. 3, Pp. 80-2.

Additional Resources:

Fundraising for libraries : 25 proven ways to get more money for your library, by James Swan. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, c2002.

Libraries Are from Venus, Fund-raising Is from Mars: Development at the Public Library, by Peter D. Pearson and Stu Wilson. Library Administration & Management, Winter 2006. Vol.20, no. 1, Pp.19-25.

Library Fund Raising: A Selected Annotated Bibliography.  ALA Library Fact Sheet Number 24.

Nebraska Community Foundation

Library Fundraising (books about the subject that are listed in WorldCat)

The Ten Most Important Things You Can Know About Fundraising

Form 990 Resources and Tools for Exempt Organizations

Non-Profit and Tax Exempt Organizations.  Nebraska Department of Economic Development.
"How to become a non-profit and tax-exempt organization; organizational management guides and resources to help your organization accomplish your goals and objectives."

Fundraising Basics.  National Consumer Supporter Technical Assistance Center, National Mental Health Association.

Fundraising: The Basics Mid-Hudson Library System

Topic 5: Intro to Grant Writing

Assigned Readings:

Proposal Writing Basics Webinar (The Foundation Center)

Grantwriting. Rural Assistance Center

Additional Resources:

Foundation Center Webinars

non-profit guides: grant writing tools for no profit organizations

Grants to State Library Administrative Agencies.  IMLS.

Foundation Center Webinars