New Academic Orientation
Welcome to the Library!
The Library provides access to resources and services to support the learning, teaching and research needs of
UC staff and students. The Library’s vision is to connect the University community with information for
knowledge-based performance.
A Faculty Liaison Librarian is your first point of contact for information and assistance. As new staff members you
are very welcome to contact the relevant librarian to organise a tour and a meeting to discuss Library resources
for your teaching and research. Contact details are:
Business and Government; Law;
Information Sciences and Engineering
Sevilay Esat 6201 5279
Sevilay.Esat@canberra.edu.au
Education and Arts & Design
Judy Currier 6201 5280
Judy.Currier@canberra.edu.au
Health; Applied Science and Design
Pat Tandy
6201 2010
Pat.Tandy@canberra.edu.au
From the Library website there is a link to “Information for Teaching Staff”. These pages provide a useful starting
point for new academic staff to learn about the range of services and facilities we offer. These include assistance
with sourcing items for your Reading Lists and making high demand texts and articles available for your students,
either online via E-Reserve or in our Short Loan collections. We also offer Library orientation and Research Skills
Training for you and your students.
Our Library Catalogue allows you to search the Library’s collections and to use My Library Space to renew and
reserve items, to save your favourite searches and view your borrowing history.
Other important Library contacts:
University Librarian – Anita Crotty 6201 5092; email Anita.Crotty@canberra.edu.au
Associate Librarian (Services)– 6201 5632, email Kathryn.Ginn@canberra.edu.au
Information and Loans Desk – 6201 2953; email loans@canberra.edu.au
Document Delivery – Maryanne Ferguson 6201 5459; email docdel@canberra.edu.au
Online resources
In common with most academic libraries today, UC offers far more resources than those you see on the shelves.
Of special value, but sometimes overlooked, are the 40,000 online journals to which the Library subscribes. You
can check availability by title from the E-Journals link or perform a literature search using our multidisciplinary and
subject-specific Databases.
To assist you and your students to quickly navigate to relevant resources, Library staff have compiled Subject
Guides covering UC’s principal teaching areas. These group together the most relevant databases, electronic
journals and websites for various subject areas.
Interlibrary loans/document delivery
Our staff are very skilled at locating journal articles, conference papers etc not held in our print or online
collections. Your Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loans requests can be submitted online and most articles can be
delivered electronically with minimum delay.
Information literacy
If you’ve ever been disheartened by the quality of your students’ assignments or would like them to explore
beyond Google, please encourage them to attend our Research Skills sessions. These are aimed especially at
incoming students and cover subjects such as getting started on assignments, finding journal articles and
evaluating and citing information sources. More details and session times are available from the Library’s
Research Skills Training page.
If you would like a session tailored to a class group please contact your Faculty Liaison Librarian. We have found
that these sessions are most valuable when presented in conjunction with a particular assignment or assessment
task. For units with very large enrolments we appreciate the invitation to spend 10-15 minutes at an early lecture
outlining Library resources and services and informing students about training opportunities and sources of help.
RefWorks and EndNote are bibliographic management tools that enable you to create and organise your own
personal database of references and citations. You can add citations while writing a paper and then use RefWorks
or EndNote to format the paper in the referencing style you need, adding both in-text references and a
bibliography.
RefWorks is web-based so it is available at any time, from any computer with an Internet connection. The
Library encourages all coursework undergraduate and postgraduate students to use Refworks.
EndNote is an invaluable tool for postgraduate research students or academics preparing manuscripts for journal
publication and allows management of images (e.g., BMP, TIFF, JPEG) and application files (e.g. Excel,
PhotoShop) as well as text. Details of training sessions can be found on the Library’s Research Skills Training
page.
HELP
The Library provides help for you and yours students through a range of services. At all times that the Library is
open, staff at the Loans and Research Desks can provide personal assistance. Online help is available from the
Library’s Research help website or use our Ask a Librarian email service.