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Quite a few people have asked me to summarise my findings on losses from academic libraries for the list: Many people quoted figures of 1% for libraries with security systems, 4% without, though I don't know where this stat originally came from. Yvonne Cotton asked the same question a few years ago and came up with a lot of stats, so I've reproduced her e-mail: We undertook a complete stocktake of our book stock at Teesside (excluding our store) in 1999 and we came up with a figure around 2.1%. However, this was much lower than many other libraries I got information from. We do stocktakes on a fairly regular basis, the last one being in 1994, so there were fewer years between for books to go missing compared with other institutions. I sent a message to Lis-Link in 1999 and these are the figures I received: Royal Shrewsbury Hospital c.10% (1st stocktake for 6 years) Central School of Speech and Drama 11.2% in 1st 20% of stock (1st in 12 years) University of Wales, Newport 5.89% (1st in "many years") Doncaster College 1.8% University College, Worcester 8.5% University of North London 7.5% Park College, Eastbourne 5.4% in 1998 and 1.769% in 1999 (1998 1st in "many years") Liverpool John Moores c.9% (1st in "many years") Northumbria Uni 15% (1st for about 5 years) Leeds Metropolitan 4.4% (1st in 6 years) I suspect ours will be much higher!!!! Liz Wyman, Learning Resources Manager, Leek College, Stockwell St, Leek, Staffordshire, ST13 6DP