Publications and Research
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2020
Abstract
During the Fall 2017 semester, staff at the Hudson County Community College (HCCC), Library began to notice that many books listed as available in the catalog were often not being found on the shelves when patrons attempted to retrieve them. This situation puzzled library leadership because HCCC had recently conducted an inventory and removed all missing items from its holdings. To determine the cause of this discrepancy, HCCC staff decided to sample the library’s collection to determine if books were available at the expected locations. From this, the library found that a high percentage of its books were not present where they were expected to be. In response, library staff implemented a variety of changes to HCCC's shelving and access services operations.
Comments
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Journal of Access Services. It is available online at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15367967.2019.1687308 (subscription required).