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Jason Price, PhD / Research & Scholarly Communication Director / jason@scelc.org / 310-728-6798
Thanks to the SCELC Member library directors who responded with alacrity at a very busy time of the year. This project benefited greatly from feedback from SCELC management and staff, particularly when it came to developing clear questions with actionable answers. Jason Price built and administered the survey, created the graphs and tables, and wrote this report.
SCELC Library Budget & Cancellation Survey by Jason S. Price is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
The average FY2022 SCELC library budget change was +0.3%
Roughly 60% of SCELC library budgets were flat or declined in fiscal year 2022
Mid-size library budgets tended to increase in FY2022
But the average SCELC library budget is still down -3.1% since FY2020
* Only libraries that responded in both years and reported similar FY2021 budget totals in the Fall 2020 and Fall 2021 survey were included.
