Request from BNP Paribas: Budget trends into FY10

["Okerson, Ann" <ann.okerson@yale.edu>]

Liblicense-l Librarians:  This question has come in.  Please 
contact the address below, if you feel you would like to 
contribute information.

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Ann, I am currently trying to conduct a two-minute survey with 
some of your colleagues regarding likely developments of 
collection budgets. Below is a little email i am sending out to 
people i had the chance to meet a few years ago when we met.

If you find it appropriate and in line with your editorial 
stance, could you please consider posting it to your liblicense 
mailing list? This would help a lot!

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Exane BNP Paribas, an investment bank based in London is 
currently conducting a survey within the research library 
community to assess likely developments of collection budgets 
going into FY10. Responses will be kept confidential and 
aggregated to form a view on current budget trends.

We are only asking your views on 2 short questions:

1. By how much do you expect your collection budget to grow in 
FY10? -10% or worse, between -5% and -10%, between 0% and -5%, 
between 0 and +5%, +5% or more.

2. If cuts are necessary, what type of products do you expect to 
cut most? Books & monographs, bibliographic databases, serial 
collections, other (please specifiy).

We would appreciate your time to answer our email. This is NOT a 
commercial approach but only serves our own research purposes. 
Aggregated results will be shared freely with participating 
respondents.

Many thanks for your help!

please respond to: publishing@exane.com

Sami Kassab
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Head of European Media team
Exane BNP Paribas
Office: + 44 20 7039 9448
Mobile:+ 44 7795 528 365

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