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July 25, 2006
The Dumchurch Letters 25 July
Dear Chrysanthemum
I have just realised you have the same initials as CS gas. Please forgive me.
The next part of my analysis is simply to ask each library to add up how many metres of shelving they have for books, for DVD's and for anything else. I ask them to distinguish adult non fiction, reference, fiction and children's books. We could be more detailed but there's no need at this stage.
We will come later to how best to fill the shelves to provide the best and most appropriate quality, but at this time, I want to make sure that we know how much money is required to keep the shelves full and smart and that is, mainly, a question simply of size.
Again, as with yesterday's estimate of staff costs, this is not a calculation for the budget, yet, but another "Ritoa" - "ready if the opportunity arises". I want to know how much the stock fund should be ideally, and this is the first step of the calculation. I intend to build an ideal stock fund for each individual library.
In these libraries there are many empty spaces and shelves upon which Perkins finds room for a doze.
Grimsdyke
Posted by Tim Coates at July 25, 2006 6:09 AM