PROBLEM ENCOUNTERED

1. Time consuming in finding the desired books.

Although there are ISBN, index numbers at the back page of the book’s cover and even with the help of librarian, finding a desired book in a huge library and book stores where many books are placed together at the bookshelves is a time consuming task. When the particular index number of the book wanted have been found using the system available in most of the libraries and international bookstores nowadays, some books are misplaced and cannot be found in their original place at the bookshelves. Librarian or the reader need to search for the book all around the place and this takes up a lot of time and energy. The most annoying thing is time is wasted and the books the reader wanted cannot be found.

2. Books being misplaced.

Librarians have taken a lot of efforts in making the books at library to be easily found by readers. Unfortunately, there are still some irresponsible readers that do not put the books back at the original place at the shelves after reading it. This causes a lot of difficulties to the librarians and also the readers in finding the exact location of the books needed.

3. Readers are unable to find the books in the original place at the bookshelves.

There are cases where books that have been just returned are not being put back at the original place at the bookshelves. There are also cases where books are been hidden by some selfish and irresponsible readers at some places so that they are the only ones who can gain access to the book. Other readers are unable to borrow or use that particular book because the book cannot be found anywhere near or at the original place.

4. Unable to locate the books that have been gone or damaged.

The books that have been badly damaged until it cannot be recognized anymore can still be found by the librarian to mend it so that the book can still be reused as a reference to the readers. The library does not have to purchase the same new book as the damaged one as it will cause the library a huge loss. Due to inefficiency, sometimes the books that are in the process of mending are still marked as available by library archive. Readers that do not know that will definitely have a hard time searching for the books.