What kinds of things get reported as miscellaneous?
Any expenditure on the operation of the library that isn’t a staffing or collection expense would go in miscellaneous. This would include expenses such as utilities, postage, binding, supplies, repair or replacement of existing furnishings and equipment if they were a part of the library’s operating budget. Include all operating expenditures from the library’s budget associated with access to electronic materials and services. Include computer hardware and software used to support library operations, whether purchase or leased, mainframe and microcomputer. Include expenditures for maintenance. Include expenditures for equipment used to run information service products when that expenditure can be separated from the price of the product. Report expenditures for services provided by national, regional, and local bibliographic utilities, networks, consortia and commercial services. Report all fees and usage costs associated with such services as OCLC First Search or electronic document de