THE CONCEPT LIBRARY

At a theatre production, the actors on stage present the audience with all the information they need to devour the show. All the while, the stagehands are in the dark, busily working away to organise, categorise, and synchronise all the instruments needed to ensure the audience experiences the performance at its peak. Cataloguing runs a little the same way. Librarians ensure resource metadata is effectively entered into the system to enable library users to efficiently retrie

I chose to compare the guidance provided by SCIS as to what a collection management policy might include, with ALIA and with the University of Queensland collection management policy and principles. SCIS suggests that a policy should; “reflect needs of the users, support and enrich the curriculum, encourage and develop a love of reading, [and] be accessible to the school community” (2013, para. 8). ALIA (2016) provides a similar framework; however, it does not make mention of