I made another visit to the West Cobb Regional library to see what/if any changes had been made since my first visit and subsequent letter to the library director.
Virtually no change found. The topmost shelves used to store excess copies were now bare of any books, presumably those excess books were put into the stacks or put into a storeroom. I did find some overages reduced, for instance the Kellerman book 'Evidence' which had 17 copies last month now had only 9, however, this visit found that Conroy's 'South Broad' which had 10 copies last month had 14 this month.
Summary: Little has changed.
West Regional continues to have far too many books of the same title, far more than the patrons there will ever rush in to take out. This needs to change, it is a waste of scarce resources and probably is not going to change under the Helen Poyer leadership.
Below are some new titles which you might reasonably be considered to have either been over purchased or not distributed well among other libraries.
James Patterson, 'Swimsuit'
10 copies
Janet Evanovich, 'Sizzling Sixteen
10 copies
Dean Koontz, 'Breathless'
11 copies
Danielle Steel, 'Matters of the Heart'
13 copies
Danielle Steel, 'One Day at a Time'
9 copies
