Non-Book Materials in Libraries: A Practical Guide (Book Review)

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Getting your money's worth: Negotiating with research agencies

When seeking grants from a funding agency, the grantwriter must first engage in some pre-proposal research. This stage includes communicating with the agency to make sure a project fits the funder's mission and that it meets eligibility requirements and other guidelines. A telephone contact or face-to-face contact may be appropriate. When writing the formal proposal, the grantwriter should indicate budget, methods of evaluation and dissemination, and follow other recommended techniques for effective proposal writing. After the proposal is written, it will be reviewed by the funding agency staff, and the grantwriter will have to answer any questions raised by the agency.published or submitted for publicatio

Fund-Raising as a Key to the Library's Future

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Nonprofit and Philanthropic Studies Education

“We need to reject the naïve imposition of the ‘language of business’ on the social sectors, and instead jointly embrace a language of greatness.” (Collins, 2005, p. 2). This quote from Jim Collins, author of Good to Great, recognizes that the push by many for nonprofits to become more business like is wrong headed. Instead, the critical difference is what makes a nonprofit great--or for that matter, a business great. In contrast to a business which uses financial returns as a measure of performance, nonprofits assess success relative to mission, and further, relative to the resources that they have to apply toward accomplishment of mission

Library Cooperation: A Serials Model Based on Philosophical Principles

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