Exercise 9: Community Profiles

I live in North Avoca on the Central Coast.
My local council is Gosford City Council. The Gosford Council community profile page is located here. Erina Library is one of the smaller branches of Gosford city library. It is located in Erina Fair shopping centre. There are numerous schools and high schools within walking distance of the shopping centre, however i fell that the library does not utilise this advantage to its full capacity.
Statistics for the Gosford City area:
Middle aged people 35-49 are the highest population group with 33,146 .
The area is predominantly people who were born in Australia  (120,971).
The Erina Library mainly caters to English speaking middle age people, and has a wide selection of adult books, large print and non fiction titles.
The library catalogue for Erina Library can be accessed through the council web page.

Exercise 8: Current Awareness.

The video I chose was the one that talked about the Automatic Book Delivery System. The ABDS would be fantastic in a large university or state library. It would be particularly helpful for librarians to be able to find a book at the touch of a button, as well as clients being able to access sources from outside the library. I feel it would make information more accessible to clients without the need for librarians to be searching through storage or stacks for the required books. This system allows clients to search through a virtual bookcase, meaning less worry about shelving books and more time to focus on helping the clients. It would allow librarians more opportunities to work in different aspects of their jobs.
I do not think this system would work on a smaller scale.