Lexington Public Library, KY
Lexington Public Library, KY, consists of a downtown central library and 5 full service branches. Serving a population of 305,000, the library has a book budget of $1.6 million and circulates 575,491 items.
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Worthington Libraries, OH
Worthington Libraries is a 3 branch library system serving a population of over 60,000. Maintaining a high standard of collection to meet the needs of patrons has always been a priority for staff and the library started subscribing to collectionHQ in 2012 to support this objective.
City of Westminster Library Service, U.K.
City of Westminster Library Service has long understood the importance of making best use of technology to drive service improvement and efficiencies. It adopted the collectionHQ software solution to improve the performance of its stock, and to help achieve significant time and financial savings around the whole area of stock management, with the ultimate goal of improving the service offered to customers.
San Francisco Public Library, CA
San Francisco Public Library is a 28 branch system with 5 bookmobiles serving a population of over 800,000. Implementing regular weeding and gaining more granular knowledge of the collections to improve collection management were priorities for management at the library. Management was also intrigued by the possibilities of gaining more use of existing collections via the transfer process. collectionHQ was implemented at the library in November 2011 to help assist with those goals.
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.