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Collection Development Policy

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• Principles of Collection Development
• Overview
• General Policies
• Specialist Collections

Principles of Collection Development

Overview

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Mission
• 3. Objectives and strategies
• 4. Context
• 5. Responsibility
• 6. University of Otago Profile
• 7. History of the Library
• 8. Decentralised Library System
• 9. Library Users
• 10. Finance
• 11. Donations

General Policies

• 1. Collecting Priorities
• 2. Acquisitions policy and procedures  
• 3. Library Liaison Programme
• 4. Selection
• 5. Collection Development by format and type
• 6. Binding, Preservation and security
• 7. Withdrawals/weeding
• 8. Intellectual Freedom
• 9. Organisation and description of the collection
• 10. Complaints procedure
• 11. Revision of the policy

Specialist Collections

• Te Aka a Tāwhaki
• Audiovisual Services
• Hocken Collections (315K in PDF format)
• Remote Library Collection
• Reference Collection – Central Library
• Reserve Collection
• Special collections
• Miscellaneous
• Recreational Reading: Fiction

Last revised: 1 February, 2012