About Us

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• Documentation
  & Resource Centre

The Documentation and Resource Centre welcomes apprentices, trainers and professionals from the hotel trade and catering sector and puts a specialized collection at their disposal. Designed on three floors, the DRC has a seat capacity of about 35 people. Team and individual work spaces make it easy to plan a working session according to your needs.

A computerized database allows you to consult the collection by using key words.

The DRC is a place for innovation, the development of new educational practices, and for exchanges.

Two librarians are there to welcome and advise you, and to manage the collection.

Opening hours:

On Mondays and Fridays from 8.15 a.m to 4.20 p.m

On Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 8.15 a.m to 5.10 p.m

or by appointment

Missions of the Documentation and Resource Centre.

- Advising the apprentices, trainers and professionals.
- Acquiring and implementing a specialized collection.
- Creating tools in connection to the courses offered by the training centre: software on gastronomy, self-training tools in general and professional subjects.
- Training apprentices and trainers in new technology.
- Monitoring

Collection.
The collection is organised in connection to the requirements of the courses and occupations in the hotel trade and catering industry. It is composed of numerous resources and adapted to users’ needs.
The collection consists of about 4000 books:
- of technology: Cooking, Wines, Restaurant service, Pastry and Hotel-keeping.
- of general subjects: French, History, Geography, Maths, Budget Management, Law, Economics, Prevention, Health and Environment, Sciences, Hygiene, German, English.
Access to these books is free.

Periodicals.
General and professional periodicals and magazines are available for consultation. Besides, the librarians make up documentary files that evolve according to current issues and users’ needs.

DRC: how to use it?
Apprentices have the opportunity to go and work at the DRC twice in their training week. One hour enables them to carry out research work. Another one is supervised by the trainers. During this hour, apprentices are taught working methods and issues linked to their training can be discussed and dealt with. Apprentices can also come to the DRC at some other time, between two training weeks or during their break. Trainers use educational resources and tools from the DRC to prepare their classes.
A lot of books on Gastronomy, Engineering in Hotel-keeping, Law or Marketing are at the disposal of professionals who can come and consult the collection or professional periodicals in the DRC.
 

Computing.
The DRC is equipped with eight computers connected to the Internet and with word processing software. Some CD-Rom as well as various software of French, Maths, Gastronomy, Sciences, and Logic... enables you to improve your knowledge of these subjects. Apprentices are assisted to use these different tools and write professional or personal reports.