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 in 2010 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.
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Key Benefits
The adoption of collectionHQ has helped this library to:
- Analyze its annual budget by aligning the money it is spending with circulation trends
- Save staff time by providing in-depth and automated reports on how customers are using their collection
- Use evidence to make decisions on how to spend budget by what books are popular with their customers and circulate well
- Improve stock and ensure items are in line with what customers want to read
- Identify dead stock and replace accordingly