1. TAFE NSW Libraries
in the
Web 2.0 World

2. Presenters:
Beatriz Aroche
Library Manager, Ultimo College, TAFE NSW - Sydney Institute
Helene Brown
Manager, TAFE Library Resource Management Services

3. Overview of session:
TAFE Libraries and Web 2.0
Case Study – Sydney Institute libraries
Challenges and rewards

4. About TAFE NSW....
Largest vocational education and training
provider in Australia
Ten Institutes in regional and metropolitan
areas offer over 1,200 work related
qualifications
Between 2008 and 2009 TAFE NSW increased
enrolments by 4.1% from 504, 009 to 524,
838
Source: Annual report 2009. Department of Education and Training.

5. TAFE NSW Strategic directions
include:
Flexible training
Employment based training
Higher education

6. 2010 Horizon Report
Time to adoption: one year or less
◦ Mobile computing
◦ Open content
Time to adoption: two to three years
◦ Electronic books
◦ Simple augmented reality
Time to adoption: four to five years
◦ Gesture-based computing
◦ Visual data analysis

7. TAFE libraries:
•299 staffed TAFE libraries across Australia
In TAFE NSW in 2009 there were:
•107 staffed libraries
•Over 2 million resource holdings
•Around 1,326,810 physical resources borrowed
•Around 275,000 full text downloads from eResource
databases
•Around 5 million visits by students and staff

11. Educational delivery and the
mobile revolution
“Do you think you could have my
professors text me before I get out of bed
if they are going to be absent from class?”
an undergraduate student

12. EBSCO mobile Searching

15. Supporting
E-Learning @ SI
A Case Study

16. Ambition in Action
www.sit.nsw.edu.au

17. Ambition in Action
eLearning in this environment....
www.sit.nsw.edu.au

18. Ambition in Action
Virtual Library Maps
www.sit.nsw.edu.au

19. Ambition in Action
Database Portal
www.sit.nsw.edu.au

20. Ambition in Action
iLectures
www.sit.nsw.edu.au

21. Ambition in Action
FaceBook
www.sit.nsw.edu.au