Administration of Grant Funds-the Project Approach

Grant funds, which are of considerable importance in collection-building, require special care in administration. The "project approach" enables the librarian to employ the efficiencies of project management by concentrating on a management unit of appropriate size. Other advantages of this approach include participation of the user community, visibility, ease in reporting and control, and directivity in the use of supplementary funding. The principle may be extended to grant proposal writing, where it is particularly useful in developing proposals tailored to the known granting patterns of agencies.