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Old 11-07-2010, 01:34 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by Fbone View Post
Under "advanced search" you can select the box for "Only show titles with copies available."
My point was to try to calculate utilization rates and what it means but there can be many conclusions reached. Residents are unaware of the service, uninterested in selection, all own Kindles? Too large inventory for population? In any case the library employee responsible for finance may not like to see only 14% utilized.
Thanks for the tip on how you did the calculation. Using this, Toronto Public Library, using "Fiction" and "Adobe ePub" as filters, says 25% of books have more holds than copies of a given title. (TPL now actually has some ebooks with multiple copies.)

I disagree with how you value the service provided to residents, however. Over a given period the number of users, the number of loans, the cost per transaction, the cost of running the service (including labour costs), the long term maintenance ... all of those would go into a "cost effective analysis" I should think.
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