Acquisition Budget Allocation Using Decision Support System

This research is conducted to study the problem of budget allocation for acquisitions in academic libraries, especially for book collections and how to solve this problem using decision support systems. Several attributes that affect the decision making process have been investigated through the literature review and an interview conducted with the director of the Applied Science University's library which is the subject of this study. After identifying the problem and the attributes affecting the decision making process, a decision support system is proposed. A classification model was used to classify library departments under different management budget allocation classes, using a decision tree classifier.