Policy & planning
Highlights
A range of documents govern the Library's operations as well as informing its projects and initiatives.
- Balanced Scorecard
This method is used to measure performance. - Charter of Operations 2009-10
- Collection Development Policy
This defines the scope and nature of the collecting of Australian and overseas materials within the Library. - Collection Digitisation Policy
This is a guide to both the digitisation of items held by the Library, and the management of these digital objects. - Collection Disaster Plan
This deals with disaster preparedness and preparation and is used by the Library as a manual in routine disaster preparedness and prevention activities. - Cost Recovery Impact Statement
- Digital Preservation Directions Statement 2008 to 2012
This sets out the Library's priorities for digital preservation for the medium term. - Digital Preservation
Policy
This indicates the directions the Library intends to take in preserving its own electronic collections (both born digital and digitised), and in collaborating with others to enable the preservation of electronic information resources. - Directions
Particular goals for the Library in the medium term. - Information Technology
plan
This is the Library's medium term plan for the expansion of its information technology infrastructure and services to enable its strategic directions to be achieved. - IT Architecture Project Report
This was developed in late 2006 by a project team. It recommends some key changes to the Library's current approach to building digital library services. - Portfolio Budget Statement
This specifies the planned outputs for the year. - Preservation Policy
This addresses the dilemma of library preservation - to make information accessible, while still ensuring its ultimate survival. - Reader Services Policy
This describes the reader services the Library provides and how staff are expected to deliver them.
As a general principle the Library publishes all of its policy and planning documents on its website as a means of sharing strategies and approaches with users, the national and international library community and other collecting agencies.
An Indexed List of File Titles relating to policy, the development of legislation and other matters of public administration is also available.
