discretionary dollars. Column five in the table shows the dollar increase or decrease from FY 2018. Based on figures provided for FY 2019 149 revenues, and anticipated 148 revenues, this proposed budget indicates a need for an additional $802,796.00. Before turning to the justification for these additional funds, let me briefly discuss other aspects of the budget. In general discretionary Goods and Services dollars represent those goods and services needed to function on a daily basis including telephone services, paper, pens and pencils, and travel funds needed to support the operations of a unit in terms of attending meetings as part of participation in the Orbis Cascade Alliance of Libraries (OCA), training related to various databases operated through the libraries, or additional professional development required of staff in order to accomplish their duties, e.g. training in improved archiving techniques and preservation of one-of-a-kind collections. In our Systems unit, we include funds for the purchase of replacement computers for those staff whose computing requirements need more frequent replacement than anticipated under the university’s replacement program. Non-discretionary increases will be discussed by unit. The increase in non- discretionary funding for Administration reflects anticipated increases in dues for OCA membership. Our participation in this consortium is critical to operations as we obtain a decreased cost for our internal and external facing systems, various subscriptions, and interlibrary loan access. Non-discretionary increases in circulation reflect likely increases in our OCA provided courier service responsible for delivery of interlibrary loan requests through OCA, and increased costs of interlibrary loan through the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC). Increases in Collection Development include anticipated cost increases of single purchase materials, standing orders for certain monographs or new volumes in a monograph series, and format migration from hard-bound monographs to eBooks. Increases in Serials/Eresoruces anticipate the increases in the costs of serial subscriptions currently held within the library, using the 10% figure discussed earlier, whether that subscription is hard copy or ecopy. It also anticipates increases in hosting fees for those serials we hold as digital backfiles. Serial holdings are classified as non- discretionary since in most cases these holdings are covered by vendor contracts that involve journal bundles offered in an all or nothing format. Hosting fees are also treated as non-discretionary since failure to pay these fees cuts off access to the previously purchased digital backfiles. The increases in our Systems budget includes a significant increase in costs for ExLibris, which provides our internal (ALMA) and external (PRIMO) facing systems. This cost increase may be reduced assuming successful renegotiation of the ExLibris contract by OCA. The three principle items that comprise the requested increase in 149 funds are the following: 1) The addition of a full time Associate Dean; 2) a proposed mass
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