Are you getting best value from your Library IT investment?

We often hear that libraries are under pressure to improve stock relevance while delivering best value from ever-decreasing budgets.

Whilst library visits are on the increase, book issues are continuing to decline – and stock quality is at the heart of the issue. Staff are frustrated with the lack of measurements and unstructured approach to stock purchasing, and the result is a lack of certainty over which books should be purchased to turn things around.

Thankfully, there is light at the end of the tunnel. Bridgeall have been pioneering solutions in the Library sector that get to the heart of stock quality and stock relevance issues, using an approach based on evidence and not intuition.

Evidence Based Stock Management (EBSMTM) has rapidly been gaining popularity within the UK as the key approach to better library stock management. By looking at evidence of historic stock usage from the data held in your Library Management System LMS, EBSM provides a deeper insight into how you should be purchasing and using book stock.

And with smartsmTM, Bridgeall have developed the premier hosted IT library software solution to enable EBSM for you.

Contact Us to take the first steps towards Better Stock: Better Libraries.