Collection development policy

Auckland City Libraries' collection development policy (2004) aims to:

1. Manage and develop the collection in order to improve its quality, its relevance to current and future customer needs, to minimize waste in current and long-term collection purchase, and to strengthen the collection for posterity.
2. Maximize use of collection management information as the basis for effectively matching collection purchase to demand, thereby making the collection more relevant to customer needs

The policy will be reviewed every five years.

Accessing the policy

There are two ways to access the collection development policy:

• The fulltext of the policy can be browsed on our website. The best place to start is the table of contents.
• You can also download the collection development policy (PDF 561KB) as a PDF document. This option is recommended for printing.

This document is provided in PDF (portable document format) for download. If you do not have the software to view these files, you can download a free viewer from the Adobe website.