Budgeting on a shoestring

Dee shared back from the recent SLANZA workshop in Whangarei with Kaaren Hirst on "budgeting on a shoe-string" which perhaps made people realise that things could always be worse as Kaaren described her strategies for developing the library and collection on an initially zero budget !
Her approach was to review the collection and priorities for development, document clearly, and communicate needs in a variety of enterprising ways including using the school newsletter to request titles etc.

In the introductory discussion, Verity shared how their approach to budgeting had been increasingly successful as they had formatted their budget to suit the style of its audience - making it brief - one page - in table form, with statistics... being aware of "how an accountant thinks".