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Collections Handbook

The Collections Handbook is located here.

The tutorial for the Collections Handbook is located here.

We are greatful to Andrew Reynolds, Research Programer, CITES Documentation Group and Kate Ower, Manager of CITES Documentation Group for offering to host this space for the Office of Collections.

Training materials regarding the use of the Collections Handbook are linked off the homepage of the wiki and can also be accessed by the above link. Please let me know if I can help in anyway. I'm happy to meet with anyone who needs assistance. David Vess.

The Collections Handbook is intended to capture community practices around selector responsibilities therefore we are giving editorial privilages to people with budgets for ordering books and other library resources. The contents of the wiki are available to anyone to view. If you feel you should have access to edit the wiki, do let us know.

Best Practices for editing a wiki:

• Do not duplicate what has already been developed and is openly available. For this reason, many of these best practices and guidelines link to information outside of the wiki.
• Give context for best practices. Let the reader understand what the ramifications are for following (or not) the best practice. Give examples whenever possible.
• Use clear and concise language and avoid jargon whenever possible.
• Be prescriptive whenever possible.
• Link within the document as much as possible.
• Give real examples whenever possible. In some cases it was not possible or easy to find real examples, so fabricated examples are given.

For comments on this page contact: Collections Webmaster

Last modified by: David Vess on 2/21/08