Library Misconceptions and Floating Stock

One of the common misconceptions about Brent Library services is that books are kept in a specific building, and just left there.  I suspect this was the idea behind Sarah Teather's suggestion that users should borrow all the books in a library building, and also the idea floated by one prominent building should be "mothballed" i.e. just left as it was until there was an improvement in the budget turned up.  In fact, as Public Libraries News explains, library stock is taken from building to building in quite a complicated way.