bookstock

plural bookstocks

1. A collection of books that belongs to a library or other institution.

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   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.

   1978, Archibald William McClellan, The Logistics of a Public Library Bookstock, Association of Assistant Librarians, page XII