Funding for the new resources is also increasingly complicated, involving several parts of the conventional collections budget, faculty startup funds, instructional technology funds, endowments, and the CDL budget.
Decisions often have to be made in the face of sudden opportunities and short deadlines.
Although decision-making authority has to be agile, the consultative process, which ensures support for programmatic needs and the involvement of subject expertise, needs to be protected. Clarify and legitimize authority. Develop clarifying statement of responsibility and authority for planning and decision making related to the development of mixed collections. Develop an overarching written plan which affirms the needs of local academic programs in determining the content of future collections. Involve subject expertise.