**Who is the audience local studies**

**Potential clients and customers for local studies**

Anyone may use local studies. Much of the use is likely to come from your council area, however, there will be researchers from many locations interested in the library’s unique collections and services.

Clients can include:

  * Local community including residents, businesses, artists, workers and content creators/reusers
  * community groups including local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Councils, cultural groups, service groups and resident action groups
  * family history researchers
  * people restoring their home or seeking house histories
  * historians 
  * researchers
  * local history societies
  * council staff
  * councillors
  * heritage consultants
  * government agencies
  * media
  * teachers and students
  * visitors

Different relationships may exist for partners and stakeholders, who may also be clients. Strong and accessible local studies collections and services provide the opportunity to work with stakeholders and partners. This relies on trust between the libraries and community members leading to possible donations and further information gathering or content creation. Partners and stakeholders may contribute financially or in kind.

[[Guidelines for having a local studies collection]]

[[The value of a local studies collection]]

[[Who is the audience local studies]]

[[Collection policy local studies]]

[[Managing collections local studies]]

[[Providing access local studies]]

[[Rights and permissions local studies]]

[[Staff local studies]]

[[Researching local studies]]

[[Programs and publicity local studies]]

[[Evaluation local studies]]