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Collection categorisation at Bristol

Karen Thomas

29th June 2018 1 Share the Experience @ Royal Holloway

The approach

• Needed to categorise the collection in order to apply a retention policy
• Not enough simply to categorise using statistical evidence
• Bristol compiled a Decision Tree in order to capture the decision process for all

print monographs

• Considered adopting the University of Leeds collections categories
• Linked Leeds model to Bristol’s decision process – it was a good fit

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Leeds collections categories:

• Heritage: Collections of internationally significant depth or breadth which the

library will continue to develop

• Self-renewing: Collections which do not have sufficient depth or breadth to be
• f national significance, but which are required to meet the needs of current

research and teaching. Material will only be retained within these collections for as long as it is required

• Legacy: Collections which have historic strength. These may, in reflecting the
• utput of a particular period or person, be of international or national

significance, but they will have been developed to reflect current and recent

• research. Where these do not meet current research and teaching needs

these will not be added to by using library funds

• Finite: These are collections which have neither historic strength, nor

relevance to current teaching and research. These collections will be consideredfor withdrawal from the Library’s collections

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Master Tree

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The match:

• Special Collections material: Heritage
• Research Reserve: Legacy
• Open shelves: Self-renewing
• Dispose: Finite

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Thanks for Listening

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