2012 National Year of Reading

Did you know that there are 46% of Australians who can't read newspapers; follow a recipe; make sense of timetables, or understand the instructions on a medicine bottle? As part of the 2012 National Year of Reading SWSI is participating in a coordinated activity to raise awareness through a Frequent Reader campaign.
During July and August borrowers will be able to enter a lucky draw for donated prizes consisting of Movie tickets, USB flash drives and various others. Winners will be notified by phone and need not be present at the draw.

Librarians at work : The times they are a-changing

It used to be that measuring library work was largely a matter of counting book loans. The computer age has changed all that so that much of it is invisible. During the week ending the 2nd of March other statistics were kept to gauge the work being done in the provision of library services.

At Granville there were altogether 1164 queries dealt with personally and over the phone. It was shown that 32% of these queries taken were of an Information Technology nature.

Survey Result
Booking Enquiry 88

Directional Equiry 185
DEC Username/Password (IT) 121
Informational Enquiry 235
Overdues/fines/BOD 23
Printing/Photocopying (IT) 116
Reference Enquiry 246
Technical Support (IT) 136
Other 14
Total 1164

Browsing magazines on-line

Many people know about our databases of full-text journals. These are accessible by all TAFE Staff and students. They are promoted at all Library induction sessions and a workshop on this subject earlier this year was well attended. A keyword search will turn up a plethora of quality related journal articles useful for research. All you need is the User Id and password issued by the Library.


Sometimes however you may only wish to browse magazine articles of a particular title. But finding a title has been a little long-winded, needing to choose relevant databases. Now however, it's just one click away. Try the following link:

eJournal A-Z

You can also find this link in the e-resources tab of the TAFECAT

Here you may search for you favourite magazine title and be able to browse through many years of back issues, in most cases.

You can also search journals by their subject. Under History of Australia and Oceania there are more than twenty titles available, with Australian Aboriginal Studies and Australian Historical Studies as examples.

Please note however that you will be asked for your DET User Id and Password, issued to all TAFE students.