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 CAVAL's Strategies for 2010 to 2015 [PDF] 12KB
CAVAL Financial Report 2010 [PDF] 441KB
CAVAL Constitution 2009 [PDF] 78KB
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 of Technology
- University of Ballarat
- University of Melbourne
- University of New South Wales
- University of Tasmania
- Victoria University