Otago Polytechnic in Dunedin

Otago Polytechnic does not have, and has never had a library. They had a service agreement with the former teachers college across the street to provide library services, until two and half years ago when the teachers college was merged with the University of Otago. The University was not keen to provide library services to polytechnic students but the government made it mandatory. So the Bill Robertson Library, which belongs to the University of Otago, provides library services to both groups of students and teachers. They find it a real juggling act to provide equitable services to both groups. They have struggled with the issue of branding and which logos to use. They have two web sites - one for their university users and another for the polytechnic users, partly so that the users can access the databases that their institution subscribes to. They also have to work with two different IT support services because university and polytechnic students log on to different networks. Thankfully all our three groups of users are on the same computer network. The library was built in 1979 and is about to get a $10million makeover!