Increase in productivity with budget shortfalls
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Increased circulation needs (greater the collection, greater the traffic and greater the amount of time spent on processing materials)
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Expanded services and working hours
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No increase in staffing
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Patrons borrow more materials
Occupational health and safety
- Labor-intensive library operations: time-wasting ritual, damages of items, human errors
- Tedious book handling
Damages to books
- Caused by increasing manual handling due to traffic density
- Barcodes damaged through material handling
Poor services
- Staff not available to assist patrons
- Extensive lines at peak hours
- Difficulty in searching for specific items
Security issues
- New expensive materials: CDs and DVDs more subjected to theft
- Increasing number of borrowed library materials by patrons
Library collection management
- Constraining inventory: poor visibility over the library collection
- Time consuming in stocktaking, with risk of human error
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