From BB's for Mara if she wants another perspective on the circulation percentages....
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Just had a quick chat with one of the senior librarians here (our office is located in the Central Library for my City).
When it comes to deciding to add to a specific section, the primary consideration is the number of holds and requests for a book, cd, dvd etc. Some other factors come into play such as author, topic and general popularity. They do measure activity/inactivity but they don't have a hard number in deciding to add or delete subjects or type of resources.
Four times a year is the general number that they look at for circulation number in deciding to keep or discard.
Hope that gives another perspective.
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