It’s January and so it is budget time. This is the time of year when we set the budgets for the following fiscal years in the cosers. So Library Automation, Non-Public Textbooks, Database Consortium and Instructional Media budgets have to be done NOW! Adjustments have to be made in salaries and benefits, retirement, social security – all that good stuff. This is what they call a “time sucker”. It literally takes hours with a spreadsheet and a ruler and pounds of paper. But once it is done – I feel good about the plans we have made for the following year. It also give me some practice with my math skills – the ones I said I’d never use! Ha!
School Library System budgets get done in April or May – so I’ll be back at this again in the spring.
