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| Reducing a stock |
Following on from Friday's blog about the slowly reducing spending on library book stock, all brought about by Roger's blog at the Barnet Eye, Mr Mustard's friend also obtained for him the stock figures going back to 31 March 2000 and here they are:
| 2000 | 865,558 |
| 2001 | 866,429 |
| 2002 | 620,000 |
| 2003 | 597,062 |
| 2004 | 521,402 |
| 2005 | 537,850 |
| 2006 | 536,175 |
| 2007 | 502,393 |
| 2008 | 482,872 |
| 2009 | 485,662 |
| 2010 | 489,900 |
| 2011 | 469,836 |
| 2012 | 477,999 |
and in the much more easy to digest form of a table
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which is very interesting. As the spend has been going down the book stock level follows it but with a 5 year lag which is possibly the average life of a library book. Stock can only have gone up a smidgen in 2012 by buying less expensive books or by not throwing old books away as soon as in previous years.
Apart from the fantastically innovative Friern Barnet people's library, which sadly only has <6 weeks to go in its current format, although Pete Phoenix isn't so named for nothing (we can expect another library to rise from the ashes) it is evident that libraries are only treading water in Barnet.
The strategic library review foresees a reduction in the budget of £1,410,000 over the next 3 years. That is going to help our libraries, isn't it? It is what Robert Rams has put his name to. He couldn't have got it completely wrong could he?
Yours frugally
Mr Mustard
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