Ultimo+College+Library

Tuesday 9 August 2011

9:30 am - 12:30pm Sydney Institute of TAFE, Ultimo College Library www.sit.nsw.edu.au/library

TAFE Library Catalogue: tafecat.tafensw.edu.au/tafecat.html Blog: sydneyinstituteonline.net/uclibrary

Collection Size 186,507

Library Staff 31.5 Staff are broken into 4 key areas Customer Service IT Services Information Resources Educational Services To add to this the staff are required to belong to project groups (like environmental projects)

All staff engage with Faculties with in the TAFE and do loans desk duties and shelve books. The staff work as a team to provide quality services to its clientel

Equivalent Full-Time Students 13,849

Ultimo TAFE has 35,130

Lending 62,508

Gate Count (includes LearnSpace and Level 1 entrances 365,746

Ultimo TAFE is a part of Sydney Institute. (8 colleges) Ultimo is the largest library with three levels. There are 2000 courses on offer at Sydney Institute.

The Ultimo library services the staff and teachers because of its central location students from all 8 colleges use the library.

Collection As with most libraries the reference section has been heavily weeded (due to online content). As has Serials, 80,000 online journals. The e-collection is the priority for collection. Although there is still a demand for print. E-books are an issue as the publishers are geared to one user not libraries (although UTS is having no problem in relation to e-books). Online reference collection.

English as a second language books are large part of the collection as many international students attend the library. The books in this area have abridged to cater for different reading levels. Has a heritage collection.

The libraries focus has moved away from being a book depository to being a community space with quiet areas and discussion areas. No hot food is allowed in the library but drinks and cold food are. The library is trying to meet the needs of todays users. The library holds events like: It@TAFE
 * Fair day
 * Exhibitions

Books are on level one and two. The collection is in dewy but then grouped into areas like 005-52 (microsoft office) Signs are at the end of each shelf with QR Codes (take a photo with phone via app and the QR code take you straight to the library catalogue) Library only keeps current editions not old (as it is not an academic library)

The library sells the old books (quite a popular service) Students pay to photo copy and print. Library has lots of displays. Library is going to put in more power outlets to met the demands of people using laptops. Library has introduced cloud computing to house the applications so the IT department does not have to keep putting software on computers. The software is housed in the cloud and downloaded to the computer by the user when needed.

10 seminar rooms are provided. The rooms have interactive boards, one has video conference. The library has a wirless lounge, LearnSpace (with tutors for support), disability ATAC room, media lounge (with PS3) for playing video games or watching TV, students are able to loan laptops.

The library is adapting to met the needs of students and staff of the TAFE.

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