Key benefits
- Highly personal service - information searches tailored to individual needs
- Expertise of professional enquiry staff
- Wide range of learning materials – including management and business databases
- Specialist resources in Organisational Development and Consulting, Management and Leadership, Human Resources and Personal Development
- Convenient access – email, telephone, internet or personal visit
- Tranquil environment for study
- Choice of individual or group membership.
“The staff are knowledgeable, helpful and engaged with whatever issues I am grappling. I could not do without this service”
Lesley Martinson, Martinson Consulting
A professionally-staffed resource at your fingertips
Staffed by a highly qualified team of trained researchers, the Learning Resource Centre (LRC) provides its members with a valuable learning and development resource.
Through the Professional Enquiry Service, the LRC team provides the answers and results you’re looking for, tailored to meet your individual requirements, with high standards of courteous, prompt and personal service. Contact the team by email, phone, internet or personal visit – whichever is most convenient to you.
Our resources
Enjoy access to a unique resource of learning materials - from books and journals to management and business databases:
- Some 4,000 specialist book titles covering Organisational Development and Consulting, Management and Leadership, Human Resources, Personal Development and general business topics
- Forty journals including Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Management Today, People Management and Management Learning, and many more online.
- Members may borrow books (not journal issues) from the LRC. Through the Special Request Service, members can borrow books and obtain articles on management and business topics held in other UK libraries (see terms and conditions).
- The Learning Resource Centre Knowledge Base – Roffey Park’s own internet-based catalogue – provides members with virtual access to LRC resources plus an internet management portal. Resources include the EBSCO Host Business Source Corporate database and Management & Organization Studies: a SAGE Full-Text Collection; the databases are provided for personal non-commercial research only.
- Extensive study facilities – the LRC offers members a tranquil place to study, complete with PC facilities, internet and email access, including wireless broadband and also colour and Xerox printing facilities.
Enjoy other Roffey Park facilities
When you visit the Learning Resource Centre, you are welcome to make use of other Roffey Park facilities too:
- Relax in our lounge and beautiful grounds
- Help yourself to complimentary tea and coffee
- Order a sandwich lunch (chargeable).
Who can benefit from membership of the Learning Resource Centre?
Anyone can take advantage of this excellent resource for their own personal development.
Membership proves particularly popular with:
Individuals who are involved generally in the fields of organisational development, training and development and human resources
Independent or freelance people developers, management consultants and organisational developers – all who face the key organisational challenges of change and developing the right skills to seize the opportunities change presents
HR and learning and development staff, who do not have access to a corporate resource of their own, for their personal development
Managers who would value a specialist resource to help support their own ongoing personal development
Individuals who are studying for distance management or business qualifications.
How to become a member
If you’d like to discuss in more detail how membership of the Learning Resource Centre could meet your own particular requirements, please feel free to contact a member of the Learning Resource Centre team - Clive, Melanie or Jane who will be pleased to help you - call them on 01293 854052 or email lrc@roffeypark.com.
Membership rates - annual subscription
Individual - £160 + VAT
Group (3-5 people) - £470 + VAT
Each additional group of 1-5 people is charged at £430 + VAT.
Registered Charities receive a 20% discount.
Postgraduate alumni of Roffey Park qualify for a special membership rate. Further details are available on request from the LRC.
Your Next Step
download our form and download our brochure [4MB].
Alternatively, contact the LRC, lrc@roffeypark.com for a copy of the form.
We look forward to welcoming you as a member of Roffey Park’s Learning Resource Centre.