New library computer system

Your library staff are all very excited!
From Thursday 4 March we will be operating with a totally new library computer system. We are the 16th public library system in Victoria to join the Swift consortia.
As a member of Swift you get direct access to the complete stock of all libraries that are members of Swift. You can now select and reserve any of more than 2 million items in the combined libraries’ collections from our catalogue page - at no cost. Although we are sharing our stock with other library services that are members of Swift this will not be at a disadvantage to our own library members. Our library members will always have priority access to our own library items i.e. reserves on Mitchell items will be satisfied first before reserves from other Swift libraries.
Our catalogue page will have a new look with extra features e.g.
• Access to a kids version of the catalogue
• Links to hot websites
• Easy access to books on the Premiers’ Reading Challenge list
• Simple searching and reserving of individual magazine copies

With the introduction of the new computer system all items borrowed from the library will have a
standardised loan period of three weeks.