Collection Development Manual

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All Collection Development Manual documents linked below are in PDF format.

Collection Development Manual amendments are to be made in accordance with QUT Library's Procedure on Library Policy Approvals, which outlines protocols relating to the approval of QUT Library policies and their amendments.

Introduction 1.0 Introduction to the Library's Collection Development Manual
Principles 2.0 Collection Development Principles
Practices 3.1 General
  3.1.1 Budget Allocation
Appendix – Library Resource Allocation Explained
  3.1.2 Clients
  3.1.3 Course Impact Statements
  3.1.4 Selection of Information Resources
  3.1.5 Open Access
  3.1.6 Accessibility
  3.2 Subscriptions
  3.2.1 Electronic Books
  3.2.2 Serials and Electronic Databases
  3.3 One-off Purchases
  3.3.1 Books
  3.3.2 Non-book Resources
  3.3.3 Policy deleted
  3.4 Digital Repository
  3.4.1 QUT Digital Repository
  3.4.2 Theses and ADT
  3.4.3 QUT ePrints
  3.4.4 Sugar Industry Collection
  3.4.5 Policy deleted
  3.4.6 Research Data Collection
  3.4.7 eJournal Hosting Service
  3.5 Donations and Free Materials
  3.5.1 Donations
  3.5.2 Internet Resources
  3.5.3 Government Publications
  3.6 Collections
  3.6.1 Course Reserve Collection
  3.6.2 Course Materials Database
  3.6.3 QUT Past Exam Papers
  3.6.4 Reference Collection
  3.6.5 Separate Collections
  3.6.5a Special Collecting Areas: Australian Children's Literature Collection
  3.6.5b Special Collecting Areas: Curriculum
  3.6.5c Special Collecting Areas: International College
  3.6.5d Special Collecting Areas: Maps
  3.6.5e Special Collecting Areas: Music
  3.6.5f Special Collecting Areas: Newspapers
  3.6.5g Special Collecting Areas: Indigenous Studies
  3.6.5h Special Collecting Areas: Rare Materials
  3.6.5i Special Collecting Areas: Scholarship of Teaching
  3.6.5j Special Collecting Areas:Syllabi
Collection Management 4.1 Binding and Repair
  4.2 Call Numbers and Classification
  4.3 Policy deleted
  4.4 Collection Development Statistics
  4.5 Collection Evaluation
  4.6 Collection Valuation
  4.7 Committees and Groups
  4.8 Missing Items
  4.9 Movement of Collections
  4.10 Stocktake
  4.11 Policy deleted
  4.12 Deselection
  4.13 Steady State Physical Collections
Collection Services 5.1 High Use Material
  5.2 Document Delivery
Branch Libraries 6.1 Caboolture Library
  6.2 Gardens Point Library
  6.3 Kelvin Grove Library
  6.4 Clayton Utz Law Library
  6.5 Carseldine Library (Branch Library closed end 2008)
  6.6 QUT Library Store
Templates   (For QUT Library staff, Word versions of these templates are available on the Intranet)
  7.1 QUT Library Faculty Information Resource Plan - Template
  7.2 QUT Library School Information Resource Plan - Template
  8.0 Significant Collection Decisions