Stock quality health check
The Public Libraries Stock Quality Health Check (SQHC) is 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 serve.
While Living Learning Libraries provide benchmarks for libraries to measure the quantity, use and age of collections and the Benefit cost analysis allows libraries to measure the economic effectiveness of collection management processes, the SQHC will provide libraries with a tool to check the quality of the collection itself.
Opening the Book created methodology for the Stock Quality Health Check in the UK for the Audit Commission, the Department of Culture, Media and Sport and Arts Council England. This model has been adapted to meet the needs of NSW public Libraries.
Adult fiction stock Quality Health Check
This year the focus is on Adult fiction, information about the Public Libraries Stock Quality Health check and a link to the spreadsheet is available from the page.
Your results
While the Stock Quality Health Check is a tool for individual libraries to assess the quality of the collection within the context of their community we would also like to gain an overall Statewide picture of the range and quality of collections across NSW. To do this we will collate the results of all participating libraries into one spreadsheet. The individual results of libraries will not be made publically available. Please send your completed spreadsheet to Ellen Forsyth or Leanne Perry by 11 November 2011.
Please contact Ellen Forsyth or Leanne Perry for more information or help in using the spreadsheet.
