The Secretariat of the Pacific Community's library is a private corporate library that aims at enhancing and servicing SPC's professional and technical staff, its projects and programmes. It provides information resources, including research, current awareness, acquisitions and information management to SPC staff. The library also seeks to promote and enhance information access and delivery to SPC member countries and territories.

It has a staff of 6: the Librarian, 4 Assistant Librarians and 1 Library Services Officer responsible for Geosciences documentation.

The current collection has regional and international publications in French, English and to a limited extent, some Pacific languages. Of the approximate 70,000 total holdings, one quarter deal with marine science and fisheries, making it the largest subject area collection in the library, and of that, approximately 300 items are FADs related.

The SPC library is a contributor to the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts and is responsible for entering bibliographic information on SPC publications in all areas of fisheries, including Aquaculture. Access to this database has enhanced our service delivery with regard to Fisheries information to our focal points in member PICTs.

Recent library activities in fisheries included developing a bibliography on FADs for the 2011 Tahiti FAD conference, training on the ASFA database in 2009, and training to PIMRIS partners on Koha, the library software, in April 2010. Updating the serials list for the IAMSLIC Z39.50 union list is ongoing. The IAMSLIC Z39.50 tool provides research support to SPC fisheries staff.

A key element of collaboration between the library and Fisheries sections is the Fisheries Digital Library. The library catalogues all the meeting papers and reports related to fisheries, these are then scanned and OCRed. This is made accessible using Greenstone. DVD versions were distributed throughout the PICTs, and it is also available online via:

http://www.spc.int/DigitalLibrary/FAME