What if you ran your library like a bookstore?

Lean professional and management staff

Plus a lot of part-time, low-paid book lovers

Everybody shelves

Emphasis on self-service

Centralization

Superstore 125-200,000 titlesLibrary with similar circ 142,870But most of bookstore stock is current titles -- adds 500-700,000 new copies / yearMost of library stock is older – adds only 14,492 copies / year on average book budget of $290KThat’s only 5.2% of the 276,649 titles published in 2007And that’s only for big libraries …. Average library budget is only $22K, and would buy about 1100 books.

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