Vocational Education and Training: Its Impact on the Traditional Education Environment

Until 1 July 1999 the Library Resource Centre I managed was an autonomous operation which serviced the need of the Higher Education and the VET sector of Curtin University - Kalgoorlie Campus. From that date we became part of the Curtin Library and Information Service and will now operate within their environment. I rapidly came to understand that there was little knowledge of the VET sector within my new peer group and so I prepared a paper on the role of the library within the VET sector and how it differed from the Curtin LIS traditional operation.