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Successful Fundraising: Case Studies of Academic Libraries, ed. Meredith Butler. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 2001. 147 p., $45.00 (ISBN 0-- 918006-49-x)
Editor Meredith Butler explains that her primary goal in developing this book was "to assist library directors and those who want to become fundraisers for libraries to learn more about fundraising and find answers to their questions." (p. 4) Authors with a broad spectrum of academic library fundraising experience contributed the 12 chapters of the book. The majority are deans or directors of Association of Research Libraries (ARL) libraries in the United States although there is representation from a Canadian ARL director, a non-ARL library director, and two (nonlibrary) fundraising professionals. Butler, herself a chapter contributor, is a widely regarded administrator who has served as Dean of the Library Faculty and Director of Libraries at the University at Albany, State University of New York since 1989.
A consistent theme throughout the book is the importance of the library director's active involvement in fundraising. However...