What it is
Made in Excel by an expert who successfully submitted library budget requests for over 20 years, the Delhi model includes:
Input of your expenditures grouped in up to 12 literature components
Input of expenditures in local and up to five foreign currencies
Specification of price increases at three levels of uncertainty
Specification of evolution of foreign currencies at three levels of uncertainty
Delhi model and Pragyan tool
Made in Excel by an expert who successfully submitted library budget requests for over 20 years, the Delhi model includes:
What it does for you
Based on the current expenditure in your library, the Delhi model calculates how much the expenditure to information resources will be over the next five years.
An ideal help for you budget request. A splendid support for reporting to your financial department.
The output of the model comes in a variety of formats that are suitable for copying and pasting directly into your budget request.
The Delhi model focuses on use in academic libraries. However, applications in other types of libraries are not unthinkable.
How you are helped
Both the Delhi model and the Pragyan tool are each accompanied by extensive manuals that describe the facets of the model and the tool in detail.
Eight exercises were developed, each highlighting an aspect of the model. The exercises range from basic level to expert level. The description of the exercises is contained in a 45-page document. In addition, one or more Excel files have been added for each exercise that show how the exercise is completed successfully.
The author looks forward to your reactions, so that extensions to and future developments of the Delhi model can be elaborated, steered by you.
Some early reactions
Noted during a conference for librarians in New Delhi, India, where an early version of the model was presented in 2023
A closer look at the exercises
Eight exercises illustrate how you can use Delhi in your library or in your library training.
The first two exercises on entering data into the Pragyan tool and the Delhi model are essential. Suppose you want to investigate the influence of price changes on part of a literature component. The Delhi model will help you decide in the third exercise.
