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California State University, Long Beach 2008-2009 Resource Planning Process

Form 3 - Budget Impact Reduction Statement

IMPACT STATEMENTS

Identify department/service area or activity that will be impacted by a base and/or non-base reduction in fiscal year 2008/09.
Where appropriate, please show mitigation of reduction utilizing carryover funds.

LIBRARY

  FTE Base Reduction
<a> 		Non-Base Reduction
<b>		 Use of Carryover
+c		 Total
<a>+ <b> +c = Total
Impact to Instruction Support (RPP) $(238,959) $(147,468) $147,468 $(238,959)
Impact to Instruction Support (Unavoidable additional costs) - $- $- $- $-
Total Budget Problem (4.00) $(238,959) $(147,468) $147,468 $(238,959)
Campus Goal Enhancing the Quality of Faculty and Staff
Solution Strategy Reduce Staff (temp help or perm) expenditures
Note
  • Impacts: In 2007/08 the library sustained several reductions in staff when longtime employees, both librarians and staff, retired, passed away, or took leaves for maternity or other purposes.  Consequently, on this eve of what can be expected to be a challenging budget year we find ourselves perhaps better positioned than many colleges to maintain the quality of our operations, our services to the campus community, and our print and virtual collections.  We hope to do this by creative scheduling, by delaying the replacement of employees, by restructuring some positions so that they can absorb the duties and responsibilities of positions that were vacated, and by relying upon less expensive hourly or contract librarians to perform more of the essential functions that tenured or probationary librarians typically provide.  In short, we are stretching our staff to their maximum capacity and we are concerned that any further budget deterioration will overtax them and cause degradation of services.
Campus Goal Student Retention and Graduation
Solution Strategy Reduce operating expense and equipment expenditures
Note
  • Impacts: In the area of information resources, the library has achieved significant savings through the conversion of print subscriptions to electronic access, as well as through systemwide discounts negotiated by the CSU's SEIR Consortium.  Unfortunately, these and other sources of potential savings have already been realized and we can no longer use them to offset a 6-8% rise in database subscription costs.  We anticipate difficult choices as we encounter inflationary increases in online database subscriptions. In sum, we are doing our best to fulfill our commitments to our students, faculty, and staff.
  FTE Base Reduction
<a>		 Non-Base Reduction
<b>		 Use of Carryover
+c		 Total
<a> <b> +c = Total
TOTAL LIBRARY (4.00) $(238,959) $(147,468) $147,468 $(238,959)
Academic Affairs
B(21)
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