This webpage offers information about the services and facilities available to William Angliss Institute staff.

These include:

• Professional librarians to help you to find information
• Loan of resources, such as books, multimedia, maps
• Reservation and renewals of books
• A Reserve collection to make available to your students high demand items such as lecture notes and prescribed texts
• Online resources, such as full text journals, databases and abstracts services
• Customised information literacy training for yourself and your students such as library orientation, database and internet training, Power Point training etc.
• Inter-Library loans and Document Delivery
• CAVAL registration to borrow from other academic libraries

Who May Borrow

All staff members of William Angliss Institute are eligible to borrow. All new staff will need to register at the Loans Desk. Please bring your staff card and fill out a borrower registration form.

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Staff can borrow up to 15 items.
AV equipment and computer notebooks can be borrowed from the Bookshop. Contact Barb Quarry on ext.2136 for booking

Loan Periods

Not for Loan

Loans can be renewed by or within 3 days of the due date, unless the item has been reserved by another borrower. A maximum of two renewals per item are permitted. You can renew your loans by calling the Loans Desk at 9606 2237. Alternatively, log into ROOMS, the LRC homepage with your user name and pin, click on Renew My Materials to renew your loans online. Your user name is your network id and your pin can be obtained from the Loans Desk staff.
 

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Reservations

Teaching staff who wish to reserve training videos for their classes can do so personally, or contact staff at the Loans Desk with the details of the item and date required. Although reservations can be made for a video via ROOMS, it cannot be made for a particular date and time.

Returns

All resources need to be returned to the designated returns chutes to avoid library fines. Chutes are located inside the front entrance of the LRC and on the west face of Building C, opposite the Bistro.

Loans from other Libraries:

CAVAL

Staff who wish to visit other academic libraries and borrow from their collection can do so by becoming a CAVAL member.

William Angliss Institute LRC is a member of CAVAL, a network of Victorian academic and TAFE libraries. Staff wishing to borrow from other academic libraries can register as a CAVAL borrower for free. The respective library’s catalogue can be searched to ascertain the availability of resources. Contact staff at the loans desk to arrange for a CAVAL borrowing card.

Use this link to access individual and combined library catalogues.
http://www.coolcat.edu.au/

Inter-Library Loan and Document Delivery

Staff can also access the collections of other academic libraries by inter-library loan or document delivery.

Loans of books or photocopies/electronic delivery of journal articles can be organised by LRC staff. Photocopies/electronic delivery of journal articles are subjected to copyright and licensing agreements.

Please contact the Lending Services Coordinator at 9606 2224 or email sharonc@angliss.vic.edu.au

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Facilities

The LRC is located on the ground and second levels of Building C. Seating is available for over 200 students on both levels.

A variety of study areas for the use of students and staff, include video/DVD viewing facilities on the ground floor and a training room at Level 2 which can be booked by teachers for their classes.

Please contact the Flexible Learning Coordinator on 9606 2370 or annag@angliss.vic.edu.au to make bookings for the training room.

Staff can access the following electronic resources from the staff network.

1. Internet
2. ROOMS, the LRC homepage
3. Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Publisher)
4. Online reference tools (full text journals, e-journals)
5. Online databases (e.g. Newsbank, Workplace OHS, Ibisworld, Infotrac)
6. WAC Search – a specialised tourism and hospitality database

Your students can also access the above and other resources from the student network. They will need to log in by using their student number as the username and their date of birth as the password.

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