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Scottsdale Public Library, AZ

The Scottsdale Public Library is a medium-sized library system in the Phoenix area. It has a fully floating collection of about 525,000 items that serve a wide variety of customers, from the wealthy to retirees to people of middle and lower-income levels. After a period of budget cuts and staff reductions, the library’s director heard about collectionHQ at an industry conference and was interested in how it could help manage the collection and assist with budgeting decisions.

San Diego County Library, CA

Library Journal’s ‘Library of the Year 2012’, San Diego County Library serves a wide variety of customers, in rural and urban settings in areas as diverse as the mountains, desert and coast. To keep pace with their customers’ different needs, the library system became among the first in the United States to start using collectionHQ, the software tool that applies the principles of Evidence Based Stock Management (EBSM) to library collections.

New York Public Library, NY

New York Public Library (NYPL) is a 90 branch system serving a population of over 3,000,000. Gaining insight into the reading trends of different communities to plan the budget at the library was not straightforward and so collectionHQ was taken on in 2010 to enhance this amongst other tasks. It has since proven an indispensable tool at the library.

Great River Regional Library, MN

Great River Regional Library (GRRL), Minnesota is a 32 branch library system serving a population of 451,125. GRRL has a pre-dominantly “floating” collection and freely shares materials as needed throughout the region. Selection is handled centrally, but each branch is using collectionHQ to manage the collection needs of that location by refreshing and removing materials based on collectionHQ reports.

Free Library of Philadelphia, PA

The Free Library of Philadelphia is made up of 54 branches serving a population of over 1,500,000. Managing the collection across such a large system requires making cost effective choices. Staff required a system that would make more efficient use of collection dollars as well as streamline daily tasks. Following a structured roll out of collectionHQ the Library noticed positive results.