![]() The Intelligent Materials Management System (IMMS) enables libraries to remotely control the volume and range of material sent to branch libraries resulting in an allocation of material suited to each library’s profile, higher return on investment, less crowded shelves, a reduction of superseded items distributed, and less front-line staff time spent manually balancing collections. Catherine Leonard, Head of Library and Learning Services, heard about the integration with Sierra (Auckland’s Library Management System) of software designed to assist collection management. ![]() This takes staff time, risks causing repetitive strain injuries and creates high volumes of paper waste as the transit slips are discarded when the items arrive at their destinations. ![]() The principal among these is that the manual process requires printing and inserting a ‘transit slip’ indicating each item’s destination. The enormous volume of material moving around the libraries‘ network of branches has created many pain points. Following the amalgamation of the seven councils in 2010 the library’s focus has been on ensuring consistent practice in one Council, which has been a huge, but important task. Systems around the world, however, the Auckland Public Libraries relied on manual sorting for their 56 libraries until December 2021. Central sorters are to be found in many library
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