Hi folks
There's been a few intriguing mentions of dynamic / floating stock recently. For those of you not sure about what this is, it's where stock does not have a "home" branch as such but rather largely stays at the branch where the public returns it to. The approach raises the possibility of big savings in terms of staff time and transport costs plus the intriguing possibility of your public doing your stock transfers for you. Hmmm, very nice.
So, I've done some research and with a little help from people in a few authorities (big thanks to Suffolk especially but also Cornwall, Cambridgeshire and New Zealand's Auckland) I've put together a simple guide to the practicalities, some of the pros and cons and a case study).
It can all be found at http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/campaigning/efficiencies-2/efficiencies-reducing-expenditure/dynamic-floating-stock.
By the way, if your service uses this system, I would be very interested to hear your views on how it works. Similarly, if you still have questions after reading the article, let me know and I'll see if I can't crowdsource an answer for you.
Regards
Ian Anstice
Public Libraries News
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