Second Faculty Library committee today. Just as scary as last time. This time I have to face the dean and the liaison officers with budgets and numbers and stuff. Never my strong suit. Need to persuade them either to spend their money or let me.

(Never had this trouble at TheOldPlace as there was no such committee!)

In actual fact they were very easy going about the whole thing and delighted to find that after (apparently) some years of not having enough there was a fair bit to spend up before the financial year ends. They're happy for me to spend but I also got back to the office to find emails already piling up with suggested orders.

'course, they'd also like some really really expensive databases...