Just found all these beaut report functions on OASIS. Analysing usage reports has been insightful as many sections of the nonfiction print resources have nil usage. The report analysis identifies areas needing deselection, and areas missing from resources, such as popular sports and sustainability. Future additions will be led by resource needs to fulfil curriculum area shortfalls. Teacher reference has many outdated resources. Fiction print has many dead areas also.Significant immediate changes are required in all areas of the collection. As the collection is the main resource base for school programs and curriculum planning and programs a priority order of action will be formulated to address the many failings of the collection.Even though some deselection (removing items from the collection) has taken place this year, the statistics show that there are still many obsolete items. Kennedy, (2006) says ‘the reasons for deselection are more impressive than the arguments against’. Keeping these obsolete resources to boast a large collection, has been counterproductive, not just adding to the problem of limited space but even more importantly making it difficult to locate or us valuable resources that do exist.
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