QUT | Library | Collection Development Manual

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
	3.1.2	Clients
	3.1.3	Course Impact Statements
	3.1.4	Selection of Information Resources
	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	School Document Requisitions
	3.4	Deposits
	3.4.1	Government Publications
	3.4.2a	QUT Deposits: Theses & ADT
	3.4.2b	QUT Deposits: QUT ePrints
	3.4.2c	QUT Deposits: Past Exam Papers
	3.5	Donations and Free Materials
	3.5.1	Donations
	3.5.2	Internet Resources
	3.6	Collections
	3.6.1	Course Reserve Collection
	3.6.2	Course Materials Database
	3.6.3	External Collection
	3.6.4	Reference Collection
	3.6.5	Special 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: Oodgeroo Unit
	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	Collaborative Rationalisation and Storage of Serial Backsets - Ceased to operate
	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	Central Store
	4.12	Weeding
Collection Services	5.1	High Use Material
	5.2	Document Delivery, Intercampus Photocopies, Griffith Photocopies and Loans
Branch Libraries	6.1	Caboolture Library
	6.2	Carseldine Library
	6.3	Gardens Point Library
	6.4	Kelvin Grove Library
	6.5	Law Library
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


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