About Us

CAVAL Ltd is a consortium owned by universities and structured as a company limited by guarantee.


What we do:

Established in 1978, CAVAL provides shared services to the information and library sectors throughout Australasia.


Our purpose:

Our purpose is to enhance the effectiveness of the educational and research activities of the member institutions, and the workplace efficiency of our external clients by continually increasing the excellence of their services through:

  • facilitating innovative information services
  • acting as an agent in library resource-sharing
  • fostering library collaboration
  • representing libraries' interests appropriately

View an extract of CAVAL's 2008 Strategic Plan [PDF] 15KB

CAVAL Financial Report 2007 [PDF] 1017KB

CAVAL Constitution 2007 [PDF] 93KB


CAVAL is owned jointly by the Vice-Chancellors of the following Australian universities:

  • Australian Catholic University
  • Deakin University
  • La Trobe University
  • Monash University
  • RMIT University
  • Swinburne University
  • University of Ballarat
  • University of Melbourne
  • University of New South Wales
  • University of Tasmania
  • Victoria University