Cut materials? - How to address funding cuts!

Which way is better? Protecting the materials budget or protecting the staff? Well, if you are confident that your budget will take a jump in a year or two and the materials budget will be restored, hey, cut the materials budget. But that has seldom worked in libraries that have tried it. The reduced materials budget becomes the norm.

(This blurb taken from an article by Charles W. Robinson from the December 2006 issue of Library Administrator's Digest)