Library Collection Development Policy - Underlying Aims

The Trust libraries and its website and intranet links aim to provide collections of resources which embrace all the following criteria:

• Matching changing needs of all specialties, course resource lists
• Close liaison and involvement with library users and key staff
• Evaluation before purchase
• Currency, linking knowledge development rates for different specialties
• Variety of formats, appropriate to learning requirements for different topics
• Balance between electronic and print, online and offline
• Value for money

The principles are included with the library and knowledge services strategy, and detailed considerations of individual resources are not normally  considered in formal meetings.

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