The Education Library offers a library and information service to all the teachers, professional and administrative officials, and registered Home-based Educators of the Free State Department of Education.
| Physical address: | Ground floor, Syfrets Building, 65 Charlotte Maxeke Street, Bloemfontein |
| Postal address: | Education Library, Private Bag X20565, Bloemfontein, 9300 |
| Telephone number: | 051-404-8467 |
| E-mail address: | E.Mostert@fseducation.gov.za |
| Opening hours: |
Mon – Fri from 10:00 to 12:30 and 13:00 to 16:00 |
On the Free State Department of Education’s website there is also a link to the Education Library (http://www.education.fs.gov.za). Click on “Educators” for the drop-down menu with links to the library’s information and documents.
The library stock covers the field of education and related subject areas such as psychology, philosophy and sociology. The stock consists of: books, magazines, newspapers, theses / dissertations, education reports and audio-visual material, such as maps, DVDs and CDs.
Material, except magazines and reference sources, may be borrowed from the Library for a period of 4 weeks – 10 books and/or 4 audio-visual items at a time.
The Library distributes an annotated Acquisition List of new materials on a quarterly basis, to bring new acquisitions to the attention of the members. These new acquisitions may also be requested and borrowed from the Library.
The Reading List contains a list of interesting articles from new magazines. These articles may be requested by providing the article reference no (as found in second column) + title of the article.
On occasion the Librarian compiles bibliographies on specific subjects, so that relevant and available library material is introduced to users, and so that they can borrow the material if necessary.
The Librarian, Mrs Erna Mostert, would like to help with the needs of all departmental officials, teachers and Home-based Educators. Enquiries can be addressed to her, either by mail, email, phone or a personal visit.