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Library circulation or library lending comprises the activities around the lending of library books and other material to users of a lending library. A circulation or lending department is one of the key departments of a library. The main public service point is the circulation desk or loans desk, usually found near the main entrance of a library.
Prytherch, Ray J., Harrod's Librarians' Glossary: 9,000 terms used in information management, library science, publishing, the book trades, and archive management, 8th Edition, 1995. ISBN 978-0-566-07533-9
A circulating library (also known as lending libraries and rental libraries) lent books to subscribers, and was first and foremost a business venture. The intention was to profit from lending books to the public for a fee. [1] Donald McDonald, stationer, and his Circulating Library, Gulgong, 1870
Some library evaluation methods include the checklists method, circulation and interlibrary loan statistics, citation analysis, network usage analysis, vendor-supplied statistics and faculty opinion. Therefore, without an ongoing weeding program, a collection can quickly age and become difficult to use.
The Chicago Public Library (CPL) is the public library system that serves the City of Chicago in the U.S. state of Illinois.It consists of 81 locations, including a central library, three regional libraries, and branches distributed throughout the city's 77 Community Areas. [5]
Dec. 2—Proposed rules pushed by Gov. Kay Ivey that would place various restrictions on "inappropriate" books for children, including where public libraries shelve them, amount to censorship ...
In 2019, CHPL had an annual circulation of over twenty-one million items, the second highest circulation of any public library in the country. [4] The downtown location alone circulates over four million items annually, the most of any single library location in the country, and has an area of 542,527 square feet (50,402.4 m 2).
A controversial plan to move some books in the Columbia County Library from the "Young Adult" or "Teen" sections to the "Adult" section is moving forward after a meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 10.