Please contact the Water Reference Library at:

Email: library@wrl.unsw.edu.au
Telephone: +61 2 9949 4488 ext: 234

Water Research Laboratory
110 King Street
Manly Vale
Sydney NSW 2093
Australia

Opening hours

Monday: 9.15am - 4.45pm
Wednesday: 9.15am - 4.45pm
Friday: 9.15am - 4.45pm

If you are planning a visit to the Water Reference Library, always contact the Librarian in advance by phone, to ensure the WREF Library is staffed and to check whether the material required is available.

The Water Reference Library (WREF) is part of UNSW Library, and borrowing is only available to persons registered as borrowers with UNSW Library.

UNSW Postgraduate Students and Staff can request loans from the Water Reference collection through UNSW Catalogue (LRD) by logging into Your Borrower Record and selecting the ILL Request tab.

UNSW Undergraduate Students may borrow by completing an Interlibrary Loan form, available by contacting the Document Delivery Unit. Requestors will be advised by email when books are ready for collection from UNSW Library, Kensington.

Books borrowed in person from the Water Reference Library should be returned to the Water Reference Library. Other return arrangements at Kensington can be organised with the WREF Librarian. WREF Library items borrowed in person at the WREF Library can also be renewed online via UNSW Catalogue (LRD) by logging into Your Borrower Record or by phoning the WREF Library on: (02) 9949 4488 ext:234

Non UNSW users can request loans from the WREF collection through standard interlibrary loans procedures, via another library which may be public, company, university or other.

The Water Reference Library, located at Manly Vale, principally serves the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s Water Research Laboratory and other UNSW water researchers.

The Water Reference Library was established in 1959 when the Laboratory opened, and is now part of the UNSW Library system.  Resources in the Water Reference Library are identified by the prefix ‘WRL’ in the UNSW Catalogue (LRD).

The significant print research collection includes: journals, books, research reports, technical reports, conference proceedings, audiovisual resources in the fields of fluid mechanics, hydraulics and coastal engineering. Hydrology, irrigation, water resources, water quality, groundwater and oceanography are also well represented, making it the most comprehensive library of this kind in Australia.