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collectionHQ is a powerful, evidence based collection development toolkit, which is proven to help public libraries maximize their collection Dollars, buy more effectively, improve collection performance and increase efficiency across their system. In a challenging financial climate where public libraries are experiencing reductions to their budgets, collectionHQ is an innovative and proven solution to help absorb these cuts.

The product will:

  • Provide a very granular insight into how collections are performing allowing your system to get a good understanding of supply: demand balance.
  • Allow evidence based selection specifications to be built quickly, ensuring that your materials budget is spent in the right areas and to eliminate wasteful purchasing.
  • Provide an insight into what is working well for other library systems across North America to support selection decisions.
  • Monitor material that has been purchased against detailed purchase specifications, to ensure that material has been purchased in the correct proportions to meet demand profiles.
  • Monitor the performance of items bought to help refine your selection strategy.
  • Improve the performance, physical quality and relevance of collections to improve turnover.
  • Help save time in routine stock management activities through the generation of monthly weeding action plans, which also can be uploaded directly into RFID handheld devices or rendered on a tablet device.
  • Identify areas of the collection which are overstocked or under-stocked at each branch and utilize evidence based advice on where any surplus, under-utilized stock should be transferred. If floating collections, use these tools to provide a powerful evidence based decision support tool to underpin this process.

Since we launched collectionHQ in North America in March 2010, we now have more than 280 library customers – ranging in size from small, single site libraries like Rocky River, Ohio - to large systems such as Queens Borough Public Library, County of Los Angeles, New York Public Library and San Francisco Public Library. In the UK, over 65% of public libraries are subscribers.

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