However, like all departments on campus, the library is working with a static or reduced budget. Cutting staff reduces service to the campus, and the Library is a service organization. In fact, libraries are complex organizations that require a basic level of personnel to make a vast body of information available. Even one cut in personnel would be a cut in service vital to research and teaching. The library has cut supplies in the past.
Some services provided by the library also provide revenue.
Most of the Library's equipment is competitively funded as a result of student fees and is not part of a line item in our budget. We do have reciprocal Interlibrary Loan arrangements with the MSU library. Statewide contracts for full-text databases have been established. The current serials shift project is a two-year project. If the library acquisition budget doesn't keep up with the inflation rates for the materials, we will probably have another serials shift project in two years.