Library Policy

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

A thesaurus is a list of concepts or words arranged according to sense or chosen for use in indexing. A Thesaurus does four important things: • It creates a set of agreed terms that are relevant • It encourages discipline or rigour in the use of terms • It helps to identify when a term needs to be revised • A carefully constructed Thesaurus can encourage thinking about cause and effect, as well as embracing our ‘ways of knowing’. This Thesaurus has 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

A collection development policy is a way to strengthen the assurance that the Library will deliver rigorous materials that are evidence-based or contain practice wisdom relevant to modern slavery and processes of change. This paper has 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. We encourage other libraries to use this paper to assist in development of their slavery collections. © SlaveryLinksAustraliaInc.2013