Principal commission
Circulation Atlas
The atlas is the studio's principal commission: a season of movement drawn so a committee can see which bays empty, which titles never rest, and which returns arrive in a clump.
Who it is for
University circulation desks, municipal reading rooms, and special libraries in Thailand that already keep loan slips, a stamp book, or a printout from their own register, and that need the collection committee to look at the same sheets.
It suits a library that can name one season — an exam term, a monsoon, a long vacation — and can open the records for that stretch to two people from the studio.
What you receive
A bound folio, usually between twenty-four and forty leaves, drawn from the records you provide. Typical leaves cover loans by bay, the hour the desk is busiest, holds that leave the same day they return, overdue clumps, and transfers between branches if you have more than one room.
Mali Chanthara brings the folio to a committee sitting of about ninety minutes. Arun Srisuk attends when the sheets include a floor plan of the shelves. You keep the bound copy. A second copy stays in the studio only until you ask for it back.
Included and left out
Included: one visit to agree the season and the rooms, supervised reading of the records on site or of photocopies you hand over, the drawings, binding, and the committee briefing inside Bangkok.
Left out: changing loan rules, buying stock, cataloguing, and any work inside your register. We do not take the live register away. Extra branches, a second year of slips, or a folio printed for every board member is quoted before we start.
Who does the work
Mali leads the desk conversations and the briefing. Arun draws the sheets and binds the folio in the back room on Pradit Manutham Road. If Thai column headings need a walkthrough, a librarian from your staff sits with us; we do not pretend to read a register alone.
How the weeks go
Week one is a letter and a short visit to see where slips live. Weeks two and three are the reading of the season. The middle weeks are drawing in Lat Phrao. You see pencil drafts before anything is bound. The last week is the briefing, held in your meeting room, with the folio on the table.
What to prepare
Gather the season's loan slips, return stamps, hold requests, and overdue notices into one room before we arrive. If the register is printed, a librarian should be free to explain the columns. Tell us the loan length you actually use, including grace days and exam extensions.
We need a table, a lamp, and a chair that does not block the desk. Staff are not asked to stay past closing.
Constraints
A season with missing months cannot be drawn as if the months were there; the folio marks the gap. Flood-damaged slips are noted, not guessed. If two branches use different loan lengths, both lengths appear on the sheet rather than being averaged into one number.
The atlas describes the season you chose, leaf by leaf, for the committee that has to read it.
Price and the next step
Studies of one branch and one season begin at 96,000 THB, including the briefing inside Bangkok. A thirty percent deposit reserves the weeks. The balance is due when the folio is handed over. Fees are confirmed in a letter after we have seen how the records are stored.
Write to the studio with the library's name, the season you have in mind, and whether the slips are in one room or several.