‘Library user profiles’

User profiles have influence on …

• How the Library collection is organised

• How the Library’s activities are managed.

There are four user segments to be catered for. These can be grouped according to the type of question being asked, as follows:

• Questions about a particular form of slavery, which often lead to further questions about what forces enable slave systems to persist.

• Questions about organisations: Who is doing what work, where?

• Questions about strategy, in other words how relationships work, to contribute to co-ordinating or harnessing anti-slavery activity.

• Questions about the ethics that can encourage slavery; and the ethics, values or principles that are on offer to guide anti-slavery thinking or initiatives.

We encourage other libraries to use this paper to assist in development of their slavery collections.

These profiles have been posted under a Creative Commons Licence, and can be used with acknowledgement to Slavery Links and a reference to www.slaverylinks.org on every occasion.

© Slavery Links Australia Inc. 2013

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