Call for papers

The Bottom Line: Managing Library Finances invites submissions from library directors and managers; development officers; higher education managers and accountants; funders and others concerned with the financial aspects of libraries and information services.

The journal is concerned not only with practical operational matters such as budgeting, costing, charging, and fundraising but also with how this fits into the financial management of the organizations in which libraries and information services operate, e.g. academic institutions, local government, cultural institutions and companies.It covers the broad areas of:

• Accounting and auditing policy and practice

• Financial governance

• Taxation

• Regulation and compliance

• Performance management and metrics.

It will therefore publish articles on:

• Financial reporting

• Asset management

• Risk assessment

• Investment

• Liabilities

• Credit control

• HRM

• Health and safety

• Environment

• Economics.

in library and information services and their organizations.

See www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/bl/bl.jspfor the current profile of the journal.

Send submissions to the Editor:Bradford Lee Eden, PhDAssociate University Librarian for Technical Services and Scholarly Communication,University of California Santa Barbara,Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, USAE-mail: eden@library.ucsb.edu