Collection Development Policies in Public Libraries in Australia: A Qualitative Content Analysis
The role that public library collection development polices play inguiding selectors and informing users has been promoted as a pillar of good professional practice. While these policies purport to open up the methods and the criteria used in selection so as to promote transparency and a sense of pr...
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| author | Kelly, Matthew |
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| description | The role that public library collection development polices play inguiding selectors and informing users has been promoted as a pillar of good professional practice. While these policies purport to open up the methods and the criteria used in selection so as to promote transparency and a sense of professional objectivity, how they actually are developed and put into practice has remained largely implicit in the research literature. This analysis revealedthat policies tended to focus on local issues and remained heavily materials focused. How collections are developed to support user’s information needs and substantive issues associated with topicality are largely unarticulated. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-116782017-09-13T14:56:50Z Collection Development Policies in Public Libraries in Australia: A Qualitative Content Analysis Kelly, Matthew The role that public library collection development polices play inguiding selectors and informing users has been promoted as a pillar of good professional practice. While these policies purport to open up the methods and the criteria used in selection so as to promote transparency and a sense of professional objectivity, how they actually are developed and put into practice has remained largely implicit in the research literature. This analysis revealedthat policies tended to focus on local issues and remained heavily materials focused. How collections are developed to support user’s information needs and substantive issues associated with topicality are largely unarticulated. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11678 10.1080/01616846.2015.1000783 Routledge fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Kelly, Matthew Collection Development Policies in Public Libraries in Australia: A Qualitative Content Analysis |
| title | Collection Development Policies in Public Libraries in Australia: A Qualitative Content Analysis |
| title_full | Collection Development Policies in Public Libraries in Australia: A Qualitative Content Analysis |
| title_fullStr | Collection Development Policies in Public Libraries in Australia: A Qualitative Content Analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Collection Development Policies in Public Libraries in Australia: A Qualitative Content Analysis |
| title_short | Collection Development Policies in Public Libraries in Australia: A Qualitative Content Analysis |
| title_sort | collection development policies in public libraries in australia: a qualitative content analysis |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11678 |