About

Tabor Library

 

Collections

Tabor library offers users an extensive range of resources to support learning and teaching. These include:

  • Print and AV resources including books, print journals, teaching kits and DVDs
  • Comprehensive ebook collections
  • Online databases which encompass ejournals, articles, ebooks, primary source material and other eresrources
  • Online video collections

Our onsite physical collections allow overnight, 3-day and 7-day loans and include:

  • Main and textbook collections
  • Teaching resource collection (offering lesson planning materials, juvenile fiction and picture books)
  • Reference collection (inhouse use)
  • Tabor Theses (inhouse use)
  • Print periodicals (majority stored in Stacks and are inhouse use)
  • Rare and Fragile books (by appointment only)

Spaces and Services

Tabor Library provides a range of spaces and services for its users. There are collaborative areas to gather, connect and socialise including our outdoor Tabor Cloister and a quiet study area with private booths. Other important library services include:

  • computers and wireless internet access
  • photocopiers for printing, copying and scanning
  • chargers for a range of mobile devices
  • a self-check loans kiosk

Borrowing

Tabor staff and students can borrow, reserve, and renew physical items by logging onto Tabor Online using their credentials

Tabor Alumni can apply for gratis membership at the library’s customer service desk or by emailing staff at library@adelaide.tabor.edu.au. Access is restricted to the library’s physical items due to eresource licence provisions.

Community Members are welcome to join the library by applying at the library’s customer service desk or by emailing staff at library@adelaide.tabor.edu.au. Membership is $50/year, however Australian Lutheran College staff, Ministers of the SA Baptist Union and members of the Youth Affairs Council of SA are eligible for gratis membership. Access is restricted to the library’s physical items due to eresource licence provisions.

Find resources and renew loans on our library catalogue

We welcome any questions and look forward to seeing you @Tabor Library.