Reminiscent of the Collection development plan readings that providing information about gap analysis so I felt this was quite familiar territory. The only thing here is that it doesn't specifically relate to a school library situation, which means there is some tweaking to do with the plan and worksheets they provide. I do like the set out of the article that provides specific steps to achieve and why. Then it goes through some of the how-to in the use of the ratings but there would need to be some definite rewrites for students and staff for them to work. Again time is a constraint they don't take into account to achieve all of this. I don't like that it is taking a marketing tact but as it is for commercial situations I understand that. I wish there were more articles written for the TL and/or school library, maybe there is and I haven't found it yet. there is some jargon that can make it difficult to follow as we don't come across that in our 'world' as much.
I feel this could be adapted and could be worthwhile to look at but it is very theoretical and mathematical in their ratings which could make it difficult to fulfil when you have students as clients of the library.
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