Selction guidelines

A choice policy
How does a library choose what goes on the shelves for members to borrow? How do librarians know what to buy and what to wrinkle their noses at? These are important questions.

It isn't all up to personal choice. Selection is one a library's most critical and far reaching decisions, so it needs to be supported with documentation and statements of intent. What a library buys goes to the heart of its values, of the customer's freedom to read, our democratic rights of access to information, diversity of view, opinion and taste.

With this in mind, we now have available on the Library's website an important document, the Collection Development Guidelines pdf of the Frankston Library Service. It may not be page turning bedtime reading, but it does help to explain why everything you borrow and choose not to borrow is there.

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