Maintaining a card index file is time-consuming. 4 Frenchay has far more photocopies than other campuses. Some campuses do not hold photocopies in the Short Loan Collection. Processing photocopies is an extremely time-consuming operation. They are stored in filing cabinets as suspension files.
Material can fall out or files fall down.
6 Individual items within photocopy and study packs are not secure. Velo bound photocopies are tattle-taped as books. Folders are tattle-taped. It is not possible to tattle-tape individual items within each folder. 7 Short Loan items may be removed from the open-access Short Loan area when those security gates are broken and 'hidden' in the main library.