Welcome to the RFS Library website
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The RFS Library provides resources, services and facilities to support
the research and training needs of RFS staff and volunteers, and to
serve the interests of the wider emergency management community. As well we offer an educational and research resource for members of the general
public to extend their knowledge of fire prevention and fire safety issues. At our Library website you can:
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For general
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Contact the librarians |
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Senior Librarian:
Prue Lofay Contact details: Monday - Friday Phone: 8741 5456 Fax: 8741 5550 Email: RFS Library |
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| Librarian:
Sherin Van der Sluys Contact details: Monday & Tuesday Phone: 8741 5455 Fax: 8741 5550 Email: RFS Library |
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| Librarian: Barbara Glass Contact details: Thursday & Friday Phone: 8741 5455 Fax: 8741 5550 Email: RFS Library |
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RFS volunteers and the Library
All RFS volunteers are welcome to use the Library for browsing or study or to borrow items.
Volunteers visiting the Library. Volunteers are asked to contact the librarians prior to visiting the Library. Phone on 8741 5456 or 8741 5455 or email to arrange your visit.
Brigade visits to the Library: You can arrange for your brigade to visit the Library on a Saturday or Sunday or some other time. Contact the librarians to discuss.
What's in the RFS library?
Over 700 videos and DVDs, from training videos like Structural Firefighting to DVDs like The RFS Story
More than 6,000 books, reports, conference papers and training manuals. Titles range from How to Motivate People to Great Australian Bushfire Stories
Magazines and Journals - over 60 titles, from Firehouse to Harvard Business Review
Daily newspapers - including The Land, we also hold RFS press clippings
The library is the place to:
- see footage of vintage Holden utes battling grassfires!
- get ideas for your brigade training and volunteer activities!
- learn more about firefighting techniques!
- study footage of famous fire incidents!
- browse firefighting magazines from all over the world!
- read the newspapers!
Borrowing Library items
Search the Library
catalogue to find the titles you want; or ask the librarian to help you
identify useful items.
Books, videos and most other items may be borrowed. The Library does not
loan individual issues of magazines or journals; however we can photocopy
articles and post to you.
Loan period: One month - Borrowed items must be returned by the due date. Extensions of time may
be requested.
RFS volunteers can
contact the Library directly by email,
phone (8741 5456 or 8741 5455), or in person.
Borrower records: When requesting items for the first time
an RFS volunteer borrower record is set up.
For this, we need details
of:
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your brigade, and any position you hold e.g. L&D officer
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nearest Fire Control Centre
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home address
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phone/mobile
details
- email
address
Items are posted to your home address or you may collect from the Library at RFS Headquarters at Homebush Bay.
Opening hours
9.00am - 5.00pm Monday
- Friday
Saturday or Sunday visits by Brigades may be arranged with the librarian
Facilities
A reading area, desks, computers, a photocopier and video and DVD player
are available for Library users.
Location
Library
NSW Rural Fire Service
15 Carter Street
Lidcombe NSW 2141
Postal address
Library
NSW Rural Fire Service
Locked Mailbag 17
Granville NSW 2142
