Establishing a resource center : a guide for organizations supporting community foundations

This brief guide is designed to help community foundations establish and maintain resource centres. It argues that information management is critical to the success of organisations, as libraries and resource centres provide access to information to staff and boards of governance and help maintain a high standard of performance, while also representing the institutional memory of an organisation. The document outlines some of the issues that need to be addressed both in the planning and in the implementation phases. Topics include budget, staff, space, scope of the collection and collection management, acquisition, services and access, and classification of materials