Information Outlook, Vol. 6, no. 6, June 2002
Features
Page 6		6 What is Your Budget Saying about Your Library? With corporations tightening their budgets, libraries are under a brighter spotlight than ever before. As Leslie Jacobs and Roger Strouse say, in cases like these, the budget is senior management's most direct connection with the library. Jacobs and Strouse discuss the importance of budget and how to make your library stronger in 2003.
Page 18		18 A Librarian's Guide to Speaking the Business Language When most librarians leave school, the last thing on their minds is setting a budget. However, when bosses start asking questions, librarians soon find they need budgets to justify their expenses. A challenge most librarians will eventually cross, Lisl Zach dissects the basics of budgeting for information professionals.
page 26		26 Knowledge Services: Financial Strategies and Budgeting Whether it's building a budget or fighting for recognition, a library must have advocates. This month Guy St. Clair explains the importance of identifying the value provided by an information professional's work and how an information professionals can demonstrate that value to the correct people.
page 34		34 Beyond the Firewall: Assessing Corporate Intranets Alison Head started out studying human-computer interaction. She began her own company in 1998 and recently decided to examine corporate intranets to see how humans and computers are getting along these days. Her 110-page study, On-the-Job Research: How Usable are Corporate Research Intranets?, presents 32 usability findings, makes 24 design recommendations and is now available through SLA. Assistant Editor Nicole Poling queried Head this month to find out more about the research process and what information professionals might need to know to make their own intranets more 'usable.'
page 42		42 The Key to a Librarian's Success: Developing Entrepreneurial Traits Dr. Charles N. Toftoy has worked with his fair share of small- and medium-sized enterprises, from high-tech to low-tech, helping them with their most urgent problems. He believes today a library will function best if it considers itself a small business. Toftoy offers 12 inspirational tips to acquire the 'entrepreneurial traits' needed to run your library as if it were a small enterprise.