Collection Management Marvel A benefit of choosing the DRA Classic system as your library automation system is the system's inherent flexibility. The St. Louis Public Library, which recently went live with DRA Classic, is currently benefiting from this innate ability of the Classic product to change. The Library developed its own homegrown system in the early '80s and subsequently incorporated some visionary technology into it. This particular piece of the St. Louis Public Library system agilely manages the library's collection in such a way that items are rotated among the library's branches to keep them moving throughout the system Autorotate is so intelligent that if an item is not popular at a particular location, the item will be weeded out and moved onto another location. The Autorotate system is programmed in such a way that items are constantly being rotated.
Popular items remain at locations for longer periods before moving onto another location.
This list also displays where the items are to be distributed. By using the Autorotate system, each branch of the St. Louis Public Library is able to maintain a high level of fresh inventory without the need for staff from each branch to continuously look and make individual selection decisions. This system allows for a librarian to be comfortable with the depth and breadth of an ever-fresh collection. The ability to automatically maintain the flow of new materials of a given category into specified locations based on that location's need for the category. The ability to define multiple categories based on owning location, media, reading level and circulation status.