Hamilton TAFE Library

We have a number of new eBooks available.
Titles include
Nails: appearance and colour
Cosmetic dermatology
Food safety in the hospitality industry
The HACCP food safety training manual
Purchasing for chefs: a concise guide
Wine regions of Australia
Food and wine pairing: a sensory experience
Hospitality employee management and supervision
Organising a conference: how to plan and run an outstanding and successful event
How to manage meetings
Please see library staff for details on how to access these.

Hamilton TAFE Library will be closed from 21st December until 7th January. We will then be open on January 7th-8th, 14th-15th, 21st-31st, CLOSED 28th January. Our hours will be 9:00am-12 noon, 1:00pm-3:30pm. Enjoy the holidays!

TAFE Libraries subscribe to a number of e-books which are available online and are able to be accessed from any computer, including home computers. In addition, Hunter Institute Libraries have recently subscribed to 9 additional titles in hospitality areas. The new titles include –

1. The making of a pastry chef: recipes and inspirations from America’s best pastry chefs

2. A neoclassic view of plated desserts: Grand Finales

3. Understanding baking: the art and science of baking

4. The baker’s manual: 150 master formulas for baking

5. Risky foods, safer choices: avoiding food poisoning

6. Complete guide to foodservice in cultural institutions: keys to success in restaurants, catering and special events

7. Hospitality management accounting

8. Professional event coordination (Wiley Event Management Series)

9. Business across cultures (Culture for Business Series)

Staff & students can gain access to these titles by going to the Hunter Libraries Homepage http://hitwww.tafensw.edu.au/libraries/index.htm and clicking on the Online Resources link. Then scroll down to the Netlibrary – Hunter ebook collection. After entering your DET username and password you will have full access to more than 870 ebooks, including the Hunter Institute’s 9 titles.

If you require access from home or from a non-TAFE site you will need to set up a username & password while on a TAFE site.

Hospitality students have a display outside the library on their events that were held last term. These were “A Frosted Evening” and “An Evening of Swing”. Please have a look at the work that went into staging these events.

We’ve had all our student computers upgraded over the break and have also recieved 10 additional ones! That makes a total of 20 computers available for student use in Hamilton Library. We have arranged the booking system as follows:
Computers 1-12 can be booked for a total of 2 hours per day by either individual students or by classes. Computers 13-17 are available for bookings by individual students only. And computers 18-20 can’t be booked but are Express Terminals for printing, checking the library catalogue and 10 minute emails. Students should be made aware that they can no longer use floppy discs but should purchase either a USB/Flash drive or writable CD-Roms.

Hamilton TAFE Library will be open the following hours in the mid-semester break.
25/6/07-29/6/07: 9am-12, 1pm-3pm. Closed on 28/6/07.
There will be no borrowing available in the non-teaching week due to a changeover in the TAFE NSW Library System.
2/7/07-6/7/07: CLOSED
9/7/07-13/7/07 9am-12, 1pm-3pm. Borrowing will be available again in the last week.

Hamilton TAFE sustained only minor damage in the recent stormy weather over the long weekend. This was surprising due to heavy flooding in areas close by. Much of the damage was to the carpark and due to the fact that we were without power. The library just had some very wet carpet and one chair. Things have now returned to normal.

The Hunter Institute Libraries have also produced a blog for information on issues relating to campus libraries.
http://hunterlibraryonline.wordpress.com

There are over 16 million mobile phones and batteries sitting around in homes and offices.  Based on market research of mobile phone ownership behaviour, Hunter Institute students have over 33,500 mobile phones to recycle now (Source: Mobile Muster Market Research 2007).  This excludes any phones that are kept as a back-up or spare.   MobileMuster is the official recycling program of the mobile telecommunications industry.  This world-leading recycling program is unique in that it is the only voluntary whole-of-industry led and funded product stewardship initiative in the electrical industry sector.  The overall aim of MobileMuster is to prevent mobile phones, batteries and accessories ending up in landfill where they can harm the environment.Hunter Institute Libraries are supporting the Institute’s mobile phone recycling program by providing a collection point for unused mobile phones. A collection box has been placed in the library next to the TV/Video Booking Diaries. We have 10 Mobile Muster Mouse Mats to give away to the first 10 people to bring us their old mobile phone (but only if they can say “10 Mobile Muster Mouse Mats” ten times very quickly).

Over the holidays we’ve had some major changes in the setup of Hamilton TAFE Library. The videos have been moved to the area where the photocopier/printers were and the photocopier/printers and the Reference sections have been moved to the walls around the student computers. We feel that this wil help reduce some of the noise in the library by concentrating the machinery in one area and will make it easier for teachers to come in and select a video/DVD. Let us know your thoughts on the changes, in particular if you feel it’s a change for the better or worse.