We must help faculty design learning activities that are student centered and that engage students as active participants capturing the educational potential of collaborative learning activities. By adopting this broader definition of our educational role we will accomplish the more narrow educational goals we had in the past for our instruction efforts while enriching the learning process and helping faculty move beyond traditional instructional modes. Access to such services in and through the LRC will assist in ensuring that our equity and access obligations towards students are addressed and that users have access to facilities, resources, services and library staff who support the development of information literacy and independent learning skills. LRCs must provide leadership in the coordinated management of information services which includes information access, indexing, electronic networking and database activities. An integral and crucial component of this role will be the availability of an appropriate library management system which incorporates current developments in library automation and access.
Information is a resource which underpins the work of the educational community.
Timely access is required to enable TAFE SA to achieve excellence in teaching and research. The provision of access may include on site holdings, the means to identify and locate items elsewhere, and document delivery from other institutions on a world wide basis. LRC manager or delegate must be included as a member of any decision making information technology group at the institute level. All LRC staff must have access to adequate levels of IT infrastructure and training including email, internet, web access, computer applications such as Microsoft Office and appropriate professional library programs and services, e.g. ABN and its successor. Computer hardware and peripherals must be available within TAFE LRCs to meet the above needs of staff at the equivalent level to that supplied within teaching faculties.