1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader his or her book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader.
5. The Library is a growing organism.The five laws of library science of S. R. Ranganathan
Recent visitors to the library will have noticed changes to the familiar location of sections of collection. Recent years have seen a healthy increase in the number of books we hold. These take up an increasing amount of space (despite regular clear outs of older material). Fortunately we have been able to make space for these by using shelves previously occupied by journals (increasingly an electronic only affair).
Suggestions for new books are always welcome and acted on where possible. To make it clearer for users how we select books to add or remove from the shelves a Collection Management Policy has been prepared. You can find the draft of this here. We welcome your comments on this policy.
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