Systematic bookstock management in public libraries.

Systematic bookstock management techniques were first developed in Tottenham by A.W. Mc Clellan during the period 1950-65. Techniques have been devised to analyse bookstock, to guide the allocation of bookfunds, to calculate optimum bookstock levels and to handle the overall monitoring and control of the bookstock. The systems need to be looked at as part of a wider movement towards a user-centred public library service. This article is a report of a study commissioned by the British Library Research & Development Department.
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