Stock Management Policy
This document sets out policies and objectives for the selection, maintenance, presentation, and performance of library stock. It provides a framework which encompasses how stock is purchased, edited, and managed.
Contents
Library strategy service objectives
Key principles of stock management
- What we stock, and where
- Donations
- Duplicates
- Local Studies stock
- Budget
- Online subscriptions
- E-books and e-audio
- DVDs and CDs
- Adult stock
- Adult fiction book selection
- Adult non-fiction selection
- Adult book stock selection criteria - what we stock
- Adult book stock selection criteria - what we do not stock
- Adult replacement stock purchase
- Children's stock
- Children's book selection
- Children's book stock selection criteria - what we stock
- Children's book stock selection criteria - what we do not stock
- Children's replacement stock purchase
- Stock ordering processes
- Reservations lists
- Reservations and inter-library loans
Accessibility and alternative formats
- Audiobooks
- DVDs
- DVD selection process
- CDs
- E-books and e-audio
Staff responsibilities and training
- Stock Champions' responsibilities
- Frontline staff
- Performance monitoring
- Stock circulation
- Stock removal or relocation
- Stock maintenance report schedule
- Last copies
- Withdrawn stock
- Damaged items
Presentation and reader development
- Presentation, promotion, and marketing
- Reader development
- Children's reader development
- Online promotions
- Book groups
- Public library catalogue and My Library app
- Quick Reads
- Fresh Start
- Feel Better with a Book (Read Aloud groups)
- Reading Friends
Policies for special collections
- The Gibson Specialist Collection
- The National Jazz Archive
- Dorothy L. Sayers Collection