Last week, we had an interesting visit from Lisa Nash and Bernie Lenterne from the Teaching and Learning Resources Unit (ie library) of the Catholic Education Office, Parramatta.
TLRU has a physical location at Mount Druitt, where it provides multipurpose workspaces available for video and audio editing, meeting, performances, reading and study. As an added inducement, Lisa and Bernie have installed a coffee machine which is so popular that library users are now able to whip up their own cappuccinos.
Like most specialist libraries, TLRU’s physical collection of books and journals is augmented by a virtual collection of education resources, or ‘e-resources’, which provides access to online databases such as
ERIC and EbsoHost for staff research and curriculum development. Not so common in special libraries, staff also have access to an electronic book library.
TLRU provides services for staff such as research, video and audio services (eg training in videoing and podcasting), Teacher Librarian support, professional memberships, access to television and newspapers.
To find out more about this interesting library, have a look at Lisa’s Blogspot.