ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a study by The Molesworth Institute of how the use of resources in an academic library can be altered to provide for a greater expenditure for materials. It suggests through imaginative use of the acronym Making the Optimal Use of Services and Educational Resources several levels of possible budget alteration. In the past The Molesworth Institute has been concerned with a generalized approach to the major bibliographic concerns of the universe and with specific technical solutions to a diversity of library problems such as library postcards, cost analysis, and umbrellas. The library had already engaged in a number of cooperative activities but had found that those had tended to increase rather than decrease personnel costs and had not provided any better access to resources. Through that creative technique the research staff of The Molesworth Institute felt that it had a grasp of how the problem might be addressed.
