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.
ICMA Certificate of Excellence Award Winner 2012 Phoenix Public Library is known nationally for being at the forefront of new practices that enhance the services it offers to customers. As part of these efforts, Phoenix in 2011 began using collectionHQ software, which uses Evidence Based Stock Management (EBSM) to improve its collection.
Geelong Regional Library is an 18 branch library system serving a population of over 260,000. Co-ordinating collection management processes across all branches and making purchasing decisions based on hard evidence was to prove a challenge for staff at the library and so collectionHQ was implemented in 2012 to assist.
Brooklyn Public Library comprises 58 branches and 2 bookmobiles, serving a population of over 2.5 million. The library required a solution to help manage and develop its collection efficiently and effectively at a time of staff shortages. collectionHQ was enlisted to assist with this objective.