Best Practices

Best Practices Documents are created by various working groups of the Best Practices Committee. These best practices usually filter up from the membership via requests that a document be created for a specific practice. Typically, a committee member serves as converener of  a working group, and that convener begins by identifying experts in the area in question and inviting them to serve on the working group. The group as a whole creates the best practice, and usually the convener serves as editor. The final product is brought back to the full committee for approval, and then brought to the Operations Committee for final approval.

Once approved, best practices are updated every two years by another of the Best Practices Committee's working groups. When the updating is done, experts are always consulted when needed. This working group has already started considering which best practices apply to serials as well as monographs.

Finally, an assessment tool (or tools, if a practice applies to both member libraries and shared print programs) for each best practice is created by a different working group. These tools are updated as each best practice is updated.

The Partnership Best Practices Working Group also provides an assessment tool for best practices

Last updated August 2024