A sadly familar tale of the impact of Holdback on library use.
At 16:56 23/08/99 +0100, George Kerr wrote:
>One thing we have tried which helps a little is that no audio stock is
>bought for individual branches. Instead we buy enough copies for half our
>branches and re-cycle all new stock on to the remaining branches after 3
>months.
We do much the same in Plymouth, with all audio stock being bought for two
bands of libraries (known, ever hopeful, as "Gold" and "Silver"). We also
have a separate allocation of funds for specialist titles which go into our
Central Music & Drama Library. That library also participates in the main
circulation scheme as part of the "Gold" band.
>We do this on our computer system
>(Dynix) but it could equally be done manually.
Again, we are using DS Galaxy 2000 to do this very simply. Currently we are
using what DS call "Collections", but we will be moving onto "Rotation
plans" (which, amongst other things, will leapfrog libraries if copies are
already in stock) next month.
>We also removed all the classical material from branches and put it into a
>circulating collection which is currently going around branches.
Again, virtually all our classical stock has been taken out of the
community libraries and is concentrated on Central. Because of the
comparatively compact nature of the city (250,000 - none of whom are no
more than 6 miles from the centre) we have not gone down the circulating
route.
Chris Goddard,
Resources and Technical Services Librarian,
City of Plymouth Library and Information Services
Tel/fax: (01752) 305900
http://www.plymouth.gov.uk/star/library.htm
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