Australian Institute of Management Library

The AIM Library was started at the same time as the Australian Institute of  Management was formed in 1942 in Melbourne.  It became a very important part of AIM with members borrowing books and journals that were difficult to find elsewhere, as they focused on all aspects of management.  In the 4 moves that AIM has made up to date, the library has become biger and of course, more diverse, including videos,and  cassettes, now CDs and DVDs. Books and talking books seem to be our main borrowings but we are now moving into e-books.  I have worked in the library for 11 1/2 years and have seen many changes.  When I started one of my first projects was to catalogue the cassettes!  Now of course there are no cassettes and I catalogue the CDs.   We also handle requests for research and database enquiries.
The Institute has changed with more variety of  training being introduced as has the library with e-readers, blogs, facebook etc and all the modern technology for our fast moving society, but  in some ways I suppose I am a bit of a dinosaur as I still love the feel and smell of the printed book and believe (hope) it will always be around.  We are still considered an important special library for our members. 
We also have a bookshop which is open to the public in which we stock a wide scope of books covering all aspects of office/management/training etc.  So as librarians we are multi-skilled!
The library has compiled a history of the AIM library and I will post some photos of the early days later.  Keep tuned!