Web 2.0 and Libraries: Impacts, Technologies and Trends

who wish to take on administrative duties. Chapter 7 provides insight into these processes and gives information about grants and research aswell as endowments and how they affect an institution's revenue picture, stability, and growth. The next chapter on facilities provides an overview on planning for new spaces, space management, disaster management, and considerations for assigning space to faculty and students. Chapter 9 briefly outlines planning and cost control for technology but only touches on the delicate balancemost academic libraries manage between in-house system departments and offices of information technology that serve the rest of the university. Likewise, chapter 10 provides an introduction to the accreditation process, but does not go into great detail as each academic library falls under specific accrediting bodies whose guidelines are explicit to regional and other FTE-specific standards. Part 4 is the largest, as it should be, for it contains the bulk of information about the academic library. It is sub-divided into six chapters: