EBSM® Benefits

Librarians who implement the EBSM methodology consistently save time and money whilst improving the performance of their stock and aligning it with their local demand.

The benefits are:

Saving Benefit
Saves Time
  • Allows you to achieve greater results with fewer resources
  • Delivers more effective stock editing, assessment and supplier specification - allowing resources to be focused in other areas
  • Saves Money
  • Saves money by making better use of current stock and spending effectively
  • Supports the assessment of experimentation by monitoring success and failure
  • Uses evidence to identify demand and both suggests intelligent stock transfers a detailed supplier specification to meet demand
  • Improves Stock Performance
  • Helps deliver stock to meet your customers needs and identifies stock to re-locate elsewhere in the service to try to revive borrowing
  • Identifies stock demand at author, subject, collection and library level and makes recommendations on how to meet this demand