Collections and resources
Building an inclusive and balanced school library collection requires good planning. The cycle of tasks, including selecting, buying and removing resources, can involve your whole school community including library staff, teachers and students.
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Collections and collection management
How you manage your library's collection is important to the success of learning and literacy in your school. Your collection will better meet your school’s needs if it's balanced, inclusive and managed through well-planned processes.
Your collection management plan
Before you can make a collection management plan for a balanced and inclusive library, you need to find out about your existing collection and your school community. A vision for your collection can be a useful reference for choosing resources.
Building an inclusive collection
An inclusive library collection reflects the diversity of your school in ways that support teaching and learning.
Selecting resources for your collection
Developing criteria and procedures to find, choose and buy items, accept donations or handle complaints makes your school library collection easier to manage.
Assessing your school library collection
By assessing your collection you can find out which areas are well covered, where gaps exist, how well it provides for the needs of your students and where you should focus your ongoing collection development.