Financial Management for Small and Medium-Sized Libraries.(Brief Article)

Chicago: IL: American Library Association, 1993. 185p. ISBN 0-8389-0618-4.

Madeline Daubert's Financial Management covers a range of financial topics as they relate to libraries, with sections on accounting fundamentals, preparing an operating budget, automation in libraries, and grantsmanship. Daubert approaches these rather large topics, on which much literature exists, from the perspective of a librarian turned accountant. The array of topics is large, and not confined strictly to accounting concepts because, as Daubert points out, money does permeate most things, even in a library or information center setting. Daubert points to the "low level of financial …