Library Membership Offer for NGO Service Providers in Australia

In an attempt to help small, non-government, community-based organisations obtain access to library materials, the National Child Protection Clearinghouse's Library service, through the Australian Institute of Family Studies (the Institute), is offering a special Library membership arrangement.

If you are a service provider in a field related to child abuse prevention, working for a not-for-profit, non-government organisation in Australia, then you are entitled to membership of the Institute's Library.

Library membership is free. It entitles you to:

borrow books, reports and audio-visual materials from the Institute's Library collection; and
have up to 25 articles photocopied per year from journals held by the Institute's Library (additional items will incur a cost comprising the copyright fee plus an amount equivalent to that charged for acquisition by interlibrary loan).

Conditions of loan for materials

Conditions are designed to allow fullest and fairest access to the Institute's Library collection.

Members can borrow up to three items per time. Loan periods are for one month, unless the item is in demand.
The Institute's Library will post items free of charge to members. Members are responsible for paying the postage on the return item/s.
Items are lent on the understanding that the borrower is responsible for the care and return of the item to the Institute's Library on or before the due date.
If items requested are not received within 10 working days, please contact us, otherwise we will assume that the item has been received.
Loans may be renewed once, provided that they are not overdue, or there are no reservations on the item. Renewal requests may be made by phone, fax or email.
Items not returned by their due date will incur restrictions on further borrowing.
Items lost or damaged will incur the cost of replacement.

Conditions for photocopying

The Institute's Library has obtained a license from the Copyright Agency Limited to enable the provision of photocopies to members. However, copying will still have to comply with the "fair dealing" requirements of the Copyright Act 1968 (we can provide only one article from any one journal issue).

Other ways of accessing the Library collection

The Institute's Library will continue to make materials available to interested people via the interlibrary loans scheme. Contact your own library to arrange loans.

Apply for Library membership

Fill in an application form for the Institute's NGO Library Membership Scheme.

Please see the AIFS privacy statement for information on what we do with the details you provide.

Please note: this application is for membership of the Institute's Library. If you want to subscribe to receive free Clearinghouse publications (Newsletters and Issues papers), please join the NCPC Mailing list.