To develop and maintain a vital, current, responsive and accessible Port Phillip collection in a variety of formats supporting the lifelong learning and leisure interests of the community

It does not matter how many books you may have, but whether they are good or not. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca (3 B.C.-65 A.D.)

New directions and service priorities

• A collection (in line with industry standards) that has a high percentage of it's stock less than 5 years old, and where a range of appropriate indicators are used to measure our progress in achieving / maintaining this standard
• Higher levels of targeted engagement with the collection by the community, such as input from the Young Persons' Reference Group in both selecting and promoting materials for the library collection 
• Enhanced means by which people will be able to find what is relevant to their needs through an enriched catalogue and online presence
• Partnerships with bookshops and alternative methods for fulfilling requests in order to reduce turn-around-time
• Targeted collections that respond to patterns of use, i.e. the right material in the right location at the right time
• Exploration of new formats and emerging alternate collections or resources that meet the changing needs and expectations of our users, (such as the new Zine collection)

What will remain the same?

• We will still have books
• We will continue to maintain and develop our collection strengths
• Access to all collections will be maintained regardless of location, i.e. an item's physical home location
• We will continue to have an evolving collection that is response driven, i.e. we will welcome your suggestions for inclusion
• We will maintain our resources while sharing capacity with other libraries in order to broaden access to other library collections
• We will continue to access data from Spydus (our library management system) to gather information about the usage patterns of our collections to assist with service planning

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