Some Community Language books in particular are badly bound. Please do not repair any PLD items. Suggested approaches to bulk loan management Have planned times in the year to rotate stock in collections which are always being used. Rotate half of your holdings in a particular Community Language if always in use to ensure at least some books are available at all times. There is no need to have completely empty shelves for well used collections.
Some libraries are able to gather loans statistics for each language.
This means the statistics can be scrutinised with a view to requesting appropriate quantities in each language. The entering and deleting of records for bulk loans is a time consuming task. Libraries using over 1,000 items each year will need to adequately plan staff time. Some larger library systems plan for data entry assistance for their loans librarian on the basis of 2 weeks per year at half yearly intervals. Others allocate all data entry to technical services staff on an ongoing basis.