Comments on: Little acorns of hope from the austerity oak tree … and calls to cut costs https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2013/02/little-acorns-of-hope-from-the-austerity-oak-tree-and-calls-to-cut-costs.html What's happening to your library? Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:34:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Desond Clarke https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2013/02/little-acorns-of-hope-from-the-austerity-oak-tree-and-calls-to-cut-costs.html#comment-5683 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:34:11 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?p=4248#comment-5683 In reply to martin Cove.

Book Industry Communications (BIC) which is the national standards agency and is part owned by CILIP, has long been trying to persuade library authorities to comply with national standards for RFID, e-business and E4libraries and to achieve national accreditation. Mick Fortune, the RFID consultant, who organises the annual RFID survey of authorities has expressed his frustration on LIS PUB LIBS with those authorities that have failed to comply with agreed standards. Unlike the publishing and bookselling sectors, some library authorities have been determined to do their own thing and as a result will incur unnecessary expense to reach agreed national standards. I suggest that you contact Mick Fortune for advice.

]]> By: martin Cove https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2013/02/little-acorns-of-hope-from-the-austerity-oak-tree-and-calls-to-cut-costs.html#comment-5680 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:48:27 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?p=4248#comment-5680 I’m not sure how large and how real some of these savings would be. If all items were processed in exactly the same way it would require someitmes major changes in circulation procedures on the ground. For example we have an RFID tag inserted into all items so as to allow self service and ‘smart stock management’ but neighbouring authorites either don’t have this or use a different system. Either we would have to do this ourselves at huge time (and we don’t have the back room staff any more) or they would have to adopt our system at great financial cost. Doubtless there would be siginifcant savings over the long term but funds are very tight now so how do we get there from here ?

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