bookstockとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

bookstock (plural bookstocks)

1. A collection of books that belongs to a library or other institution.
   • 1978, Archibald William McClellan, The Logistics of a Public Library Bookstock, Association of Assistant Librarians, page XII:

     In the larger public library systems, now typical, a system of stock control which provides a sensitive “feedback” to the conditions throughout the bookstock is almost essential for a management structure which inevitably involves the delegation of the actual selection of titles to as many professional staff as possible.