49 Association of Research Libraries Research Library Issues 292 — 2017 and is deserving of its own paper covering the development of a new decision-making structure. 2. Credit to Dolsy Smith for developing talking points around this idea. 3. Matt Mihalik, director of scholarly technology & library IT, facilitated a retrospective to help identify desired process changes, and developed the initial training for the teams. Matt is a certified scrum master (CSM), a facilitator who ensures that the agile project team has the knowledge and tools they need to complete a project successfully. 4. Morgan Stoddard (CSM) facilitated the first retrospective, and was joined by Bill Gillis for the second. Both are directors of research and user services. © 2017 Hannah Sommers This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. To cite this article: Hannah Sommers. “This Is a Story about a Collections Budget.” Research Library Issues, no. 292 (2017): 42–49, https://doi.org/10.29242/rli.292.7.