No.3
March 2005
Students using the new Learning Hub
in Morris Miller Library
Library news
From the University Librarian
The Learning Hubs anticipated in the last Library News are now open for business. They are exciting spaces that provide a range of study spaces for students. I encourage you to visit the Morris Miller Library or the Launceston Campus Library and walk through the spaces. There are a number of interesting places to discover within them. We now have rooms, which students can book for group study. Academic staff may find it useful to book them on occasions for group work. There are informal areas for group work. There are formal study spaces for individual work. There are study spaces in the Morris Miller Library Hub with lovely views of the River Derwent. The wireless network will be functioning in a few weeks so students will be able to bring their laptops, plug in to the power and link in to the University network.
There are pictures of the Learning Hubs on the Library web site at:
Morris Miller Library
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/learning_hubs
/learning_hub_mml.html
Launceston Library
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/learning_hubs
/learning_hub_ltn.html
We are undertaking an evaluation of the Hubs, so that we can find what the students like, and what other facilities they may like. This will inform the additional Hubs that will be developed in the next year.
Come and have a look!
Linda Luther
University Librarian
Australian Digital Theses (ADT) program
The University of Tasmania has joined the Australian Digital Theses
(ADT) program. This is a national collaborative scheme to establish
a distributed database of digital versions of theses produced by postgraduate
research students at Australian universities. For full details of the
ADT program see:
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/libserv/
adt/index.html
The Library and Graduate Research Unit are looking for recent UTAS research Masters and PhD theses in electronic format to add to the database. If you can help, please contact Derek Rowlands in the Library ((03) 6226 2228, Derek.Rowlands@utas.edu.au), or Vanessa Folvig in the Graduate Research Unit ((03) 6226 2762, Vanessa.Folvig@utas.edu.au).
News from Sections:
Circulation
The Morris Miller Library now has a self-serve EFTPOS machine. This will enable all staff and students to add money to their CAPS printing and photocopying accounts, which is especially useful at weekends when Service Desk help is not available. It is very easy to use - just follow the prompts.
We also have a book self-issue machine with instruction for use in easy to follow pictures and diagrams. Using this machine will save you from waiting in a queue during peak periods, or just before closing time when staff are occupied with other duties. For help with these machines, check with the Service Desk or Circulation Staff.
Phone: 03 6226 2227
Clinical Library
Reorganisation of the location of computers in the library now enables options for people to work more privately both individually and in small groups. A quick look-up computer kiosk work station has been set up to answer the question 'Can we provide you with the journal or book you need?'. As well as a computer, several print lists support the service. CAPS accounts can now be credited using either the coin machine or a newly installed EFTPOS CAPS facility.
Access to the BMJ electronic service will improve access to a range
of medical e-journals not previously available. Apart from BMJ.com itself
there are now another 22 prestigious e-journals available from the BMJ
publishing group. The journals are included as part of a list at BMJ.com
although access to the titles needs to be via the Library's E-journals
page at:
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/info/ej/
index.html
Phone: 03 6226 4813
E-mail: Clin.Reference@utas.edu.au
Cradle Coast Campus
The Cradle Coast Campus has received several visits from Launceston Liaison librarians so far this year and training has been provided for Tourism, Nursing, Rural Health, Education and UniStart and general introductory sessions. At least one visit per week until Easter is planned, and then visits will be scheduled according to demand. Please let staff of the Launceston Campus library know if you would like a librarian to visit your students at the CCC, and we'll be happy to arrange a date and time. Ring extension 3299 or email Ltn.Reference@utas.edu.au, or contact your liaison librarian.
Phone: 03 6324 3276
E-mail: Ltn.Reference@utas.edu.au
Document Delivery
Users of Document Delivery Service only need register once to use the
Service. For example, you may have registered a couple of years ago
as an Honours student and now you have commenced study again as a Masters
by Research student. In these cases simply contact the Service and we
can update your record to reflect your new status, new contact details,
etc. You can then continue to use the same PIN and your Copyright Agreement
Form would already be on file. Also, if you ever forget your PIN simply
contact us again. We can tell you what it is because your PIN sits in
our system. Our system does not allow for personalised PINs. For more
information see:
http://ww.utas.edu.au/library/info/dd/index.html
Phone: 03 6226 2230 (Hobart)
E-mail: docdel.hbt@lib.utas.edu.au
Phone: 03 6324 3571 (Launceston)
E-mail: docdel.ltn@lib.utas.edu.au
Launceston Campus Library
The Launceston Learning Hub is now open for business, and there has been a lot of positive feedback from users. There are 36 computers available for student use on Level 1, and printing and scanning facilities too. There are also three group study areas, two of which are able to be booked and one has a video link to the Morris Miller Library's Learning Hub.
For more pictures see:
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/learning_hubs/
learning_hub_ltn.html
Alison Johnston is taking long service leave from 4th April until 10th June. During this time her liaison duties for SVPA, English and Philosophy will be taken up by Liz McLean. Liz has worked in the Launceston Campus library previously as Circulation Librarian and Relief Librarian so will be known to some staff members already. Please get in touch with Liz if you need any help in these areas on extension 3359 or email Elizabeth.McLean@utas.edu.au
Morris Miller Library
The exciting new Learning Hub on levels 2 and 3 of the Morris Miller Library provides colourful, contemporary areas to meet and to study with lots of comfortable seating. Facilities and services available in Learning Hub include:
- New books and serials
- Newspapers
- Flexible individual work spaces for
- options for laptops wireless or plug-in
- computers workstations
- study
- Flexible group work spaces with shared computer
- E-mail kiosk
- Bookable group rooms including one videoconference room linking Launceston and Hobart
- Casual seating
- Support available from Service Desk and Tier 2
For more pictures see:
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/learning_hubs/
learning_hub_mml.html
Come and see!
Do you want to comment on the hubs? Please complete a feedback form
available in the Learning Hubs.
Phone: 03 6226 2225
E-mail: MML.Reference@utas.edu.au
Science Library
The Science Library would like to welcome all new and continuing staff and students back after the summer break. If you've been into the Science Library in the last couple of weeks you will have noticed lots of activity. We have been running general library orientation tours for students along with subject-specific tours for first year students, all of which have been well attended. Liaison Librarians have also been busy conducting Honours workshops and first year classes for many of their Schools.
Information literacy programs have been embedded into School of Engineering and School of Computing units. This is the second year we have been running a specifically designed program in the first year unit KNE121 Engineering Profession and Industry. The lecture, library tours and workshops are linked to an assignment. In the School of Computing, the unit KXA155 Professional Computing has an integrated program on information literacy skills. The program incorporates a lecture, online tutorial and workshops and specifically supports an assignment and presentation. This unit is taught state-wide and has been supported in the North by Ian Bollard in both the Launceston and Cradle Coast Campuses.
If you are interested in investigating a similar program for your unit or school, please contact your liaison librarian.
Phone: 03 6226 2441
E-mail: Science.Reference@utas.edu.au
Electronic Services News
This area provides news about changes to existing or new electronic services which are provided by the library to support research and teaching programs.
JSTOR
Staff and Postgraduate demonstration and afternoon tea
Staff and postgraduates are invited to a demonstration of JSTOR in
the Morris Miller Library's eLearning Lab on Tuesday 22nd March from 3.00
to 4.30pm (afternoon tea provided). We will also be demonstrating Serials
Solutions and Australian Digital Theses (ADT). Please RSVP
by Monday 21st March to either MML.Reference@utas.edu.au
or phone 6226 2225.
The Launceston Library 's demonstration will be held on Tuesday 22nd March
from 3.00 to 4.30pm in the 1st floor Library Training Room. Please RSVP
by Monday 21st March to either Ltn.Reference@utas.edu.au
or phone 6324 3276.
PDF or Word flyer about demonstration.
JSTOR Collections 1, 2 & 3 is the latest set of electronic
journals acquired by the University. This consists of 357 scholarly journals
across many disciplines. What makes JSTOR different? Unlike other collections,
JSTOR sets out to provide a complete archive of each title from issue
one, including all material cover to cover. Many of the titles go back
to the 1800s. In addition it is fully searchable (every word) using a
"Google-like" interface. We are confident that serious researchers
with be very pleased with JSTOR's high quality content, long back-runs
and ease of use. JSTOR titles are all included in the Library's e-journals
listings and will appear in the catalogue in due course.
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/info/dbase/
dbases3.html#j
New Catalogue Interface
By now many of you will have seen the new catalogue interface at:
http://ipac.lib.utas.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?
profile=catalogue#focus
Major changes include:
- Instructor and course search has been removed from Basic search and is now under the new Reserve Bookroom search. To access the Reserve Bookroom use the link at the top of the search pages. Reserve Bookroom requires you to choose a location (LtnRes, ClinRes) before searching for instructor or unit code.
- The Guided Search limits are now in 4 categories. You can select one option from each category.
- Search results now default to Sort by Publication Date with the latest publications at the top of the list.
- Results for Alphabetical Searches now gives the closest match 3 places from the top of the result list, so that title before and after can be seen.
Electronic Journals and Serials Solutions
Just a reminder that we have reorganized our "Electronic Journals" Web
pages and are now using an exciting new technology called "Serials Solutions"
which offers a variety of different ways to search the collection. You
are now able to search by title or ISSN or browse by alphabetical list
or by subject. You can access the new look Web pages at:
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/info/ej/index.html
CUDOS Commonwealth Universities Database
A new database - CUDOS [Commonwealth Universities Database Online Service]
has been added to the databases web pages at:
http://www.acu.ac.uk/cudos/
It is compiled by the Association of Commonwealth Universities and brings
together information that the ACU has published in print form as the Commonwealth
Universities Yearbook and International Awards. Details of 700 universities
are searchable by name, country, ACU member status, foundation date or
size. Within an institution, links are offered to faculties, academic
units and administrative contact areas and also to institution-wide searches
for staff, research activities, study areas and sources of funding. The
database requires the user to enter their individual email address and
a UTas institutional password which is listed on the passwords page at:
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/0justus/
passwords.html
Data Metallogenica
Data Metallogenica is a continuously expanding searchable database for
global mineral deposits with over 20,000 image and text files. The database
contains digital images of plate-mounted sets of mini-specimens (approximately
70,000 samples), more than 5,500 interpreted mineral reflectance (PIMA)
spectra of epithermal and porphyry deposits, deposit summaries, deposit
descriptions, typical cross-sections, map and image galleries and exploration
case histories. Searches can be conducted by deposit name, geological
province, country, state, region, commodity and deposit type. Check out
the Data Metallogenica database at:
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/info/dbase/
dbases2.html#d
SCALEplus
The Acts - Current Compilations database, together with the Numbered Acts database on SCALEplus is now up-to-date and will be maintained until further notice. The decision to maintain this database until the ComLaw site has undergone further re-development, has been welcomed by all.
Google Scholar
Recently Google released a new search Google Scholar in beta mode, which offers free access to the bibliographic records and often to the abstracts of millions of articles. It may also lead users to full-text documents, if they qualify for free access. Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
Several publishers cooperated in the Google Scholar project by opening
the doors of their document stores (normally invisible to Web-wide search
engines) to allow Google's crawlers to collect data and to show some of
it free. Google also gathered data from the sites of many other publishers,
as well as from open access abstracting/indexing databases and from the
largest archives of preprint and reprint servers. When fully developed,
this promises to be a useful additional research resource.
http://scholar.google.com/
Training and Help
ETutor
Teach yourself - eTutor provides a set of online tutorials to get you
started using a variety of library resources. The tutorials have recently
been updated and the new modules include: Topic Analysis, Sociological
Abstracts as an example of a CSA database, Australian Public Affairs as
an Informit database, Medline using PubMed and ProQuest. They are available
on our Web pages at:
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/etutor/index.html
Workshops and Library Tours
Our branch libraries are offering a wide variety of classes and hands-on
workshops during first semester. For details of forthcoming library workshops
for staff and postgraduate researchers and other information literacy
classes please see:
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/assist/
tours_workshops.html
Special Information Literacy classes
Do your students need library and information skills training?. Liaison
Librarians can deliver information skills classes or hands-on workshops,
which focus on specific subjects or courses. Please contact your Liaison
Librarian directly to discuss embedding information skills into your teaching
in order to develop information literacy in your students. Liaison Librarians
and their contact details are listed at:
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/about/liais.html
Items for Reserve and eReserve
A reminder, when submitting lists of materials to go on Reserve or eReserve
for any units, please use the new online form available on the library's
Web pages at:
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/forstaff/
reserve_request.html
Staff are asked to submit their online Reserve requests, not hardcopies
of their course outlines, as early as possible before the beginning of
each semester. For more information please contact your liaison librarian
or see:
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/cat/staffres.html
Easter and other opening hours
| Thursday | 24th March | Close 6:00 pm |
| Good Friday | 25th March | Closed |
| Easter Saturday | 26th March | 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
| Easter Sunday | 27th March | Closed |
| Easter Monday | 28th March | Closed |
| Easter Tuesday | 29th March | 1.00 pm - 5.00 pm |
| Wednesday | 30th March | 8.30am - 6.00pm |
| Thursday | 31st March | 8.30am - 6.00pm |
| Friday | 1st April | 8.30am - 6.00pm |
Also
| Labour Day Monday |
14th March | Closed |
As our branch libraries do not always have the same opening hours, for
the full details for 2005 please check our Web page at:
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/about/
openhours.html
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