Library funds allocation and budgeting are always not an easy task to do for acquisitions department. Here, we are talking about budgeting the funds for appropriate use for the number of courses and curriculums and its users  needs.

With the increase of courses and curriculums, fund structure has to be flexible to cater for them. There is a need to study how to have a new approach towards developing a flexible fund structure to suit its purpose. In this paper, a new way was described for the past one year experience of Texas A&M University libraries’ in  re-designing the fund structure to meet the needs and goals of the library and their users.

This paper discussed the different fund lines created for different purposes and how they are being used effectively to cater to different users’ need.

[Source: Creating a flexible structure to meet the needs and goals of the library and its users. by Wyoma vanDuinkerken, Jane Smith, Jeanne Harrell, Leslie J. Reynolds, Sandra Tucker, and  Esther Carrigan. Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services, vol 32, year 2009, page 142-149.]