Library news:

From the University Librarian

Library staff are approaching the Easter break having worked through the busiest time of the year. The two largest libraries, Launceston Campus Library and Morris Miller Library, with their Learning Hubs, are showing high usage. During March we have had a weekday average of 2025 people entering the Launceston Campus Library, and 3120 entering the Morris Miller Library. This gives a total of 5145 people entering the libraries each day, with peak days of 3226 and 4382 respectively.

The new request services have now been launched and are working smoothly. The initial response from library users is very positive. Students at the Sandy Bay and Hobart campuses can now use the catalogue to request books to be delivered from Launceston, and vice versa. Also they can advance book items on Reserve so they can plan their study time knowing the books will be available. This has more than doubled the requests made on the old paper system and provides significantly improved access to the collections.

There is a new exhibit in the foyer of the Morris Miller Library. This is an exhibit of Quaker History from the University of Tasmania Archives, the Quaker Collection and the Meeting House collection of the Society of Friends. The Quaker Collection is part of the Special and Rare Collections of the University of Tasmania Library. In addition to the display in the foyer, there are minor exhibits on Level 2 and Level 3 leading to the Rare books and Quaker collection on Level 5. There are many items on display, so please set aside some time to come and visit.

Linda Luther

Easter Opening Hours

Easter Opening Hours

The Library will be open during the Easter break but please check the following link for altered opening hours during this period:

http://www.utas.edu.au/library/about/openhours.html#Easter

Please note that the Launceston Campus Library will be closed on Saturday 15 th April due to a planned power outage by Aurora.

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Quaker Life in Tasmania

Quaker Life in Tasmania is the current exhibition on display in the Morris Miller Library foyer and on levels 2, 3 and 5 in the main library. Utilising the extensive resources of the Quaker collection and University Archives housed on the fifth floor of the library the exhibition explores various aspects of Quaker life in Tasmania focusing on key historic figures who brought the religion to Tasmania and the lives of some of the many Quaker families who settled here.

The generous loan of items of clothing and various objects from the Religious Society of Friends Meeting House collection as well as some items from a private collection have enriched the display. Professor Michael Bennett from the School of History and Classics has written an extensive historical background to the display.

Graeme Rayner who, as part of his Collection Management duties, is custodian of Special Collections including the Quaker collection, has written a background to the acquisition of what is the largest Quaker collection in the Southern Hemisphere.

The exhibition will run from March until June 2006 and it will become available on the Library website as an online exhibition.
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/whatnew/quaker_poster2_sml.jpg

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News from Sections

Clinical Library

CAM101

As reported in previous issues of Library News, Ian Barton has been instrumental in developing information literacy content for the new 5 year MBBS medical course.

Information literacy learning outcomes have been embedded within the new curriculum and teaching of these skills are being conducted on a weekly basis by Ian Barton and Sarah Crosswell through a series of hands-on workshops. The teaching of information literacy skills is seen as integral to the case based learning approach of the course and student’s skills will be assessed throughout the Semester.  The first skills test examination was held in Week 5 with students performing extremely well.

Please phone: 03 6226 4812 or x4813
E-mail: Clin.Reference@utas.edu.au

Collection Management Unit (CMU)

Library staff gathered in the Morris Miller Library Staff Room on Friday 17th March to farewell Wendy Knott who was retiring after almost 23 years service to the Library.   A large contingent of staff attended together with some of Wendy's retired colleagues who were invited along.

Linda Luther and Wendy Knott

Wendy joined the Library, as a contract Library Officer, in May 1983 to work with the MARC project team which was incorporating the Mt Nelson TCAE collection into the University Library collection.  Thereafter she worked on a project to reclassify the Music Library (itself acquired from the TCAE) from Dewey to Library of Congress.  At the end of 1983 Wendy left the University to take up a permanent position with the State Library in Devonport. Wendy returned to the University Library in June 1984, again to a temporary position, but was soon made permanent when appointed to a vacant position in Cataloguing which resulted from several other staff moves following a more senior resignation.

Wendy remained in the Cataloguing Section after 1984, successively, and variously, as Librarian and Senior Librarian between 1990 and 1995.  Wendy was promoted to a permanent position at HEO6 in 1996, and assumed the duties of Senior Cataloguer in 1998 after the creation of the Collection Management Unit.

Wendy's contribution to the intellectual standards of academic cataloguing and her attention to detail has continued the high standard of cataloguing established at the University in the 1980s under Ian Barton.  She has made a significant contribution to the evolution of the on-line catalogue as it has developed under the URICA and HORIZON systems.

Wendy has left the Library to pursue a career in the Anglican Church in which she has been active in a voluntary capacity since 1994.  Her church work may well take her back to the United Kingdom, from where she emigrated, and we wished her well with this new adventure.

Document Delivery

We are pleased to announce that a decision has been made on a new ILL/Document Delivery management system for the Document Delivery Service. The new system called VDX is widely used in other libraries across Australia and is highly regarded by those who use it.

While eligible staff and students will not notice any change in the current method of web requesting there will be many changes ‘behind the scenes’. One of the benefits will be your ability to track the progress and status of all requests submitted to us. It will be similar to the ‘My account’ option currently available through the Library catalogue. We encourage people to contact us if they are anxious about the filling of their requests, but, of course, it is more convenient to be able to check a request yourself.

Implementation of the new system should be some time later this year, and we shall keep you posted on this major enhancement to our Document Delivery Service.

Hobart Phone: 03 6226 2230
E-mail docdel.hbt@lib.utas.edu.au
Launceston Phone: 03 6324 3571
E-mail docdel.ltn@lib.utas.edu.au

Launceston Library

UTAS Library spreads to Sydney

The School of Nursing & Midwifery have started teaching the Bachelor of Nursing program to Sydney students in an accelerated 2 year pathway at the St. Vincent's Public Hospital. Instrumental to this program is the UTAS Library's involvement in ensuring students have access to, and knowledge in how to access the range of UTAS Library's electronic resources and services. To this end, on Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th February Ian Bollard attended and participated in the 1st year orientation to Sydney students. He also conducted training sessions to Walter McGrath Library (St Vincent's Public Hospital Library) staff and to the Acting Head of the Sydney school, Assoc. Prof. Kim Walker on the sorts of services and resources students will need.  Ian returned on Wednesday 29th March to conduct a database training session and to evaluate how the measures put into place for Sydney students have been working. Ian would like to think that the Library has played a part in minimising the drop-out rate at 1 person in 72 starters.

Phone: 03 6324 3276
E-mail: Ltn.Reference@utas.edu.au

Law Library

Wireless Network
The Law Library now has wireless access for students who wish to use their laptops. For more information on using the wireless network please see: http://www.its.utas.edu.au/UANA/wireless.html

Phone: 03 6226 2063
E-mail: Law.Reference@utas.edu.au

Science Library

We would like to welcome Gabrielle Kneebone to the Science Library. Gabrielle will be here until the 2 nd June. We are also pleased to welcome Stuart Nichol who is undertaking a practical placement with us for 2 weeks in April. Stuart is studying towards his librarianship qualification, through UTAS and Edith Cowan University.

Gabrielle Kneebone

By the end of March Science Library staff had conducted 80 information skills sessions with approximately 1600 participants. Honours workshops have been conducted in the majority of SET schools and first year SET students have been addressed in a variety of venues and formats including overview lectures, compulsory orientation tours, and introductory database workshops. The Science Library will be offering generic postgraduate and staff sessions bi-monthly this year so keep an eye out on the Tours and Workshops page for further details.

Phone: 03 6226 2441
E-mail: Science.Reference@utas.edu.au

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New Electronic Services

CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
The following enhancements have recently been made to CINAHL:

• Enhanced display of the Table of Contents and Reference information as well as the improved functionality allowing users to browse for journals, authors, people and publishers.

• Update of the CINAHL Thesaurus to include new terms.

http://www.utas.edu.au/library/info/dbase/dbases2.html#c

Current Contents Connect
ISI have recently made key changes to CC Connect including a new user-friendly homepage design and the option to make CC Connect, or any other Web of Knowledge resource, your start page. Links to the full text of free open access journals have also increased. And lastly, eFirst has been launched enabling users to get bibliographic information from electronic journals before each issue is published.
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/info/dbase/dbases2.html#c

Informit
Informit 2.3 is now live which introduces browsing to Plus Text databases. The ability to browse full text journal issues has been extended and improved for APAFT and this browsing functionality will be introduced to other Plus Text databases over the coming months. Full text journals may now be listed by title, subject or publisher and browsed individually. Other enhancements include the expansion of EndNote export format document types to more accurately describe the record being exported and the Browse Titles List now displays full text coverage and indexing details.
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/info/dbase/dbases3.html#i

LexisNexis Australia- Civil Procedure Tasmania
Civil Procedure Tasmania is now available on LexisNexis Australia via the link on the database page. The Service provides legislation and practice material relevant to both the Supreme Court and the Magistrates Court of Tasmania.

Amongst material contained in the Supreme Court section are the Supreme Court Acts 1856, 1887 and 1959, the Supreme Court Civil Procedure Act 1932, annotated Supreme Court Rules and Supreme Court Corporations Rules. Included in the Magistrates Court section is an introduction to the court and its rules.

Other legislation relevant to the Tasmanian courts is also reproduced.
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/info/dbase/dbases3.html#l

ProQuest
ProQuest has recently been enhanced with several new features:

• Alerting Services – be notified via email when the latest issues of your favourite publication is available on ProQuest and create Search Alerts to periodically receive emails containing the latest matching articles for your favourite searches.

• My Research – the My Research Summary and the Marked List page have been combined into a single feature called My Research. Marked articles, previous searches and publications viewed can be emailed or saved as a webpage from one location.

• Email Enhancements – users can now email multiple articles in a single email, brief citations with links back to an article in ProQuest, full text of articles in ASCII or PDF, My Research and formatted bibliographies.

http://www.utas.edu.au/library/info/dbase/dbases3.html#p

Scopus
The Scopus Citation Tracker is a new feature providing users with a simple way to investigate citation behaviour from a number of different angles. The Citation Tracker enhances the previously existing citation features of Scopus and gives you an at-a-glance display of the number of citations an article has received over a year or a number of years – letting you select the period of time. Whether you want to measure how relevant an article is today (citations this year) or how relevant it has been in the past, or if you want to view the citations your article has received this year, the Scopus Citation Tracker can do this for you.
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/info/dbase/dbases4.html#s

Springer Journal Archive
The Library has recently purchased the Springer Journal Archive for the subject areas of Humanities/Social Sciences/Law, Medicine, and Chemistry and Materials Science. The Springer Journal Archive provides access to 1.8 million archive records comprising approximately 800 journals formerly published by Kluwer, as well as all content from Volume I, Issue 1, where available, from the former Springer-Verlag and Kluwer. These holdings have been added to the eJournals webpage and the Library Catalogue.
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/info/ej/index.html

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Teaching and Help

UniStart – February 2006 – Hobart, Launceston, Burnie

The Library’s contribution to UniStart was revamped in 2006 through teamwork with CALT so that the information skills sessions were integrated with the essay writing/research process sessions. This was of benefit to both the UniStart students and the Library staff. Library sessions for UniStart included:

• Library tours

• A lecture on the research process (team taught with CALT)

• A “hands-on” exercise that asked students to access a variety of information resources

• A question and answer session so that students could raise any issues they had encountered during the exercise

The Learning Hubs in the Morris Miller and Launceston Campus Libraries proved invaluable for the hands-on sessions, as students were able to integrate the use of both online and print resources within the Library.
http://www.utas.edu.au/unistart/

Workshops and Library Classes
Library workshops for 2006 have been well attended with large numbers of students attending library orientation tours, lectures and workshops.

Our branch libraries will again be offering a wide variety of classes and hands-on workshops during Semester 1. For details of forthcoming library workshops for staff and postgraduate researchers and other information literacy classes please see the Library Tours and Workshops webpage: http://www.utas.edu.au/library/assist/tours_workshops.html

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