Stock Quality Health Check 2012

This time round a new team has gotten themselves together to select 500 Junior & Young Adult titles which best typify a healthy collection (this includes picture books)

Collection Health 2012

Of course, after a week of upgrading new members of the RA wiki to Writer status I finally couldn't help myself any longer and started adding in my own suggestions of authors & titles & series & so on. As an avid reader of everything, and with 3 teenage children, I've got a lot of info to impart.... I also felt it worthwhile commenting on titles which I thought were in the wrong category and why as I'm sure my feedback is just as important as my suggestions.
It was also fun to add Steampunk as a genre!
So, what would you add??

Dragons in the Metcalfe - #ra2011 - part five

Ellen Forsyth from the State Library of NSW (@ellenforsyth) spoke briefly regarding the Stock Quality Health Check (SQHC) - a project to develop a practical tool which enables public libraries to undertake an assessment of the relevance, depth and range of collection stock in relation to the communities they service.


Sound fancy?


Actually, I think this is a fantastic project and one I can really see the usefulness of in my workplace. To be honest I'm quite excited about this project - compiling an indicative list across numerous AF genres which can then be used to gauge the coverage of the library's collection is such a useful and practical idea. I'm also looking forward to parts 2 & 3 - nonfiction and junior/ya fiction