Christmas and New Year
Find out how your bin collection days and our opening hours are different over Christmas and New Year.
Library Stock Management Policy
Read our policy for the selection, purchase, management, promotion and disposal of stock within our libraries
The aim of our Stock Management Policy is to explain:
- how we choose library stock
- how we maintain and promote it
- how we circulate stock to ensure the widest choice of reading
- why and how we decide to keep some items and remove others
- our position on censorship
The objectives of the Stock Management Policy are to:
- promote a unified approach to stock selection and management
- improve and develop our stock, and ensure effective use
- optimise value and minimise waste in stock purchase
- enable increased efficiency and effective management of the Information Investment Fund (also known as our bookfund)
- present, provide and improve stock which is relevant and attractive to library users, and to the communities we serve
- increase the use of our stock
- promote literacy and reading