"A" = Actual Control "P" = Proposed Control
| CONTROLS | ||||||||||||||||||||
| C-77 | C-78 | C-79 | C-104 | C-105 | C-106 | C-107 | C-108 | C-109 | C-110 | C-111 | C-112 | C-113 | C-114 | C-115 | C-116 | C-117 | C-118 | C-119 | ||
| THREATS | Establish guidelines on what to discard. | Perform capital planning to ensure space for new books. | Establish performance measures to ensure discarding procedures are performed. | Draft collection management policy for main library. | Foreign Language Collection Development Policy. | 5 Year collection development plan; establish and review objectives annually. | Five-year capital improvement plan. | Senior library staff sets and monitors allocations. | Librarians understand the need of their communities. | Council adopted policy on selection and maintenance of collection (based on Library Bill of Rights). | Guidelines for weeding Adult non-fiction distributed to senior librarians, April 1988. | Professional librarians (responsible for an area) make day to day weeding and purchasing decisions. | Library is training additional staff as foreign language selectors. | Walk around monitoring of collections by senior librarians. | Librarians check circulation stats before discarding materials or returning McNaughtons. | Library has conducted workshops on deselecting materials. | Work Management System tracks circulation stats (goal is to increase by 5%). | McNaughton selections based on reserve requests. | Librarians share information/reviews concerning available materials with other librarians (at the Order Table). | |
| COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT: | ||||||||||||||||||||
| T-117 | Collection may not meet the needs of the community. | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | ||||||||
| T-118 | Collection may reflect ethnic biases. | A | A | A | A | A | ||||||||||||||
| T-119 | Collection may not be up-to-date. | A | A | A | A | A | A | |||||||||||||
| T-120 | Collection may be deficient in certain languages. | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | |||||||||||
| T-121 | Collection may be deficient in certain subjects. | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | |||||||||
| T-122 | Collection may be deficient in certain media. | A | A | A | A | A | ||||||||||||||
| T-123 | Collection may not have the material a patron wants. | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | |||||||||
| T-124 | Library may stock materials no one uses; collection may not circulate. | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | ||||||||||
| T-125 | Budget not based on collection needs/priorities. | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | ||||||||||||
| T-126 | Allocation may not be the best use of available resources. | A | A | A | A | A | ||||||||||||||
| T-127 | Resources may not be distributed fairly between ethnic groups. | A | A | A | A | A | ||||||||||||||
| T-128 | Library may not meet its book aquisition goals. | A | A | |||||||||||||||||
| T-129 | Book aquisition goals may not be realistic. | A | A | |||||||||||||||||
| MATERIALS SELECTION: | ||||||||||||||||||||
| T-130 | Selection process may be inefficient. | A | ||||||||||||||||||
| T-131 | Selection may not meet collection development objectives. | A | A | A | A | |||||||||||||||
| T-132 | Selection may not meet annual collection development objectives. | A | A | A | A | A | ||||||||||||||
| T-133 | Selections may not meet 5 year collection development objectives. | A | A | A | A | A | ||||||||||||||
| T-134 | McNaughton selections may not meet needs of constituencies. | A | A | A | A | A | A | |||||||||||||
| T-135 | Periodical selections may not meet needs of constituencies. | A | A | A | ||||||||||||||||
| T-136 | Acquisition decision may be skewed by personal bias. | A | A | A | A | A | ||||||||||||||
| T-137 | Weeding decision may be skewed by personal bias. | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | ||||||||||||
| DISCARDS: | ||||||||||||||||||||
| T-54 | Books that are useful may be incorrectly discarded. | A | ||||||||||||||||||
| T-55 | Books discarded because of lack of shelf space. | A | ||||||||||||||||||
| T-56 | Outdated books are not discarded. | A | ||||||||||||||||||
| T-57 | Librarian will not weed a sufficient number of books. | A | A |