No.4 April 2005

Information Resources Area at Cradle Coast Campus

• Library book shelves
  
  for material listed on high demand/recommended reading lists. These books/items may only be used at the Campus. The space operates as Reserve does in other Library locations, except that the items are not ever for loan. Circulation services as found in the traditional libraries doesn’t exist at the Coast.
• Pigeon holes
  
  exist to receive material posted to the Campus. Students or staff can request that material be sent to their home, as well.
• PAC (public access catalogue)
  
  Students can order Library material electronically. Other services, such as a fax, photocopier, CAPS coin machine, are also available.
• Client support assistance – Lorraine Hamilton (FEU) and other Cradle Coast Administrative staff
  
  are on hand to assist students/staff with their queries.
• Study space (group tables and individual quiet carrel study) is available
  
• Teaching lab used by Library staff to run training/information sessions
  
• All clients are able to avail themselves of other services, such as consulting theses, Document Delivery (if eligible) or to use an internal phone to obtain reference assistance from Launceston
  

News from Sections:

Art and Music Library

Claudia Venezuala, who is currently studying towards her BA (Librarianship and Corporate Information Management) through Curtin Univ., has joined us for three weeks to do her professional placement. Claudia can normally be found in the State Library of Tasmania where she works with the Heritage Collections.

Phyllis Scott has decided to cut down her hours of work from full time to half time and will be found in the Art Library each morning. Process are underway to back-fill Phyliss' other half.

For the next few months Geoff Green will be spending each Friday helping out in the Collection Management Unit of the Library were he will be able to gain some valuable experience in the acquisition and cataloguing processes. He will be replaced in the Music Library by Christine Hurburgh who brings with her substantial experience, especially in Law.

Phone: 03 6226 4376
E-mail: Art.Reference@utas.edu.au

Clinical Library

Helen Millar has reduced her hours and will not be working on Fridays. Juanita Wertepny is now working on Fridays as part a staff development arrangement. Catherine Moloney has left the pool of casual staff and we are pleased to welcome Madeline Bensley to weekend work.

The new Quick Find kiosk work station is proving popular and effective in answering 'have we got?' type queries, particularly in relation to print and e-journal availability.

The first batch of orders to upgrade core text materials for medical students in the three clinical schools has been input for purchase.

Phone: 03 6226 4813
E-mail: Clin.Reference@utas.edu.au

Document Delivery

Your Document Delivery PIN is computer generated from our software application. The PIN always consists of five (5) numbers and one (1) letter in upper case at the end. Final letters such as ‘O’ or ‘I’ look like numbers, but they are upper case letters.
If your PIN appears not to be working check that your last letter is inputted in upper case. Occasionally, for some reason, our application prefers Internet Explorer as its browser, but generally speaking, it should always work with Netscape Communicator as well.

If your PIN is still not working, and you are using a ‘bookmarked’ page on your machine, try accessing the Request Form from the Document Delivery links starting from the left hand side of the Library’s homepage. If you are sure your PIN is correct and you are still having trouble phone IT Support on ext. 1818 (if on Campus) or 1300 304903 (if at home). See further details on the IT Support link from the Library’s homepage.

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 University Preparation Program is designed to give students returning to study the skills and confidence to succeed in their chosen university course. The students can choose to enrol for a full year or one semester and can select from a range of subjects including several first year subjects that give a taste of what to expect. I tutor students studying in flexible mode through the Launceston campus for 3 hours per week in the subjects of Information Technology for Academic Purposes, Communication (this is really research and essay writing) and Study Skills.

It has been very satisfying to see so many of last year's class back at Uni this year studying full time, mostly in nursing and to hear how much they gained from doing UPP. Tutoring these students has been a fantastic opportunity for me to share some of my own experiences of university study (and after being a uni student myself for fourteen years I have plenty to share) plus a chance to meet some really admirable and gutsy people.

Diana Hodge, Team Leader Arts, Commerce & Education

Law Library

The Law Library has a new display cabinet, courtesy of the Faculty of Law. The cabinet was designed by Lane Architects, and is a modular design in myrtle and laminate. The cabinet will house selected rare law books, new publications from the Faculty of Law, and prizes awarded to UTas law students in national and international competitions.

Over the next few months, there will be minor refurbishments in the Law Library to brighten the surroundings. In particular, we will be reorganising the entrance area to the library to create a space for browsing the new books, journals and law reports.

In April, the Law Library will be running legal research training sessions for students enrolled in Contract & Torts. These are catch-up sessions for students who missed the first round of training. Details are available in the Law Library, and on the noticeboard for these units.

In May, the Law Library will be conducting training sessions in the use of CaseBase. CaseBase is a case citator and annotator for over 35,000 cases. It covers over 60 law reports from Australia and the United Kingdom.

Details of the CaseBase training sessions will be available shortly in the Law Library and on the library web page Workshops and Tours 2005 http://www.utas.edu.au/library/assist/
tours_workshops.html

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

Morris Miller Library

We recently reported that Roger Carter had been appointed as the Liaison Team Leader for Morris Miller Library. Roger's role is leading the integration of information services into teaching, learning and research of Morris Miller schools and research units. He is still the Liaison Librarian for History and Classics, Philosophy and English, Journalism and European Languages.

We are happy to announce that Tricia Vierra will be joining the Morris Miller Library team in the position of Liaison Librarian. Tricia has experience in public and university libraries in the U.S., Australia and most recently New Zealand, and has worked in both collection management and reference areas. She will be the Liaison Librarian for Geography and Environmental Studies, Psychology and Education.

Heather Mitchell continues to be the Liaison Librarian for the Faculty of Commerce with Information Systems, and Kate Walpole for Government, Sociology, Asian Languages and Studies and Riawunna.
Please look under the Training and Help section of this Newsletter to find details of the Staff and Postgraduate Workshops to be held in April.

Phone: 03 6226 2225
E-mail: MML.Reference@utas.edu.au

Science Library

We are pleased to welcome Donna French who will be working on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Some of you will already know Donna from her weekend work with us.

We are also pleased to welcome Ruairi Murphy who is undertaking a practical placement with us for 5 weeks part-time. Ruairi has a science degree in Zoology and is currently undertaking study towards the Graduate Diploma of Information Management, with Edith Cowan University.

Next time you visit the Science Library don't forget to look at our New Book display. This has recently been expanded to make room for the large number of new books we are receiving across all disciplines. Also, just a reminder about our Serials collection. The latest issue of a serial held by the Science Library can be found on the “Current Serials” display, pre-1990 serials are held in the compactus and post-1990 serials along the back wall. Please see Library Staff if you need assistance in locating serials.

Finally, don’t forget to look under Training and Help to find out details of the postgraduate and staff workshops to be held on the 26th and 27th April.

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

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

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

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 Skills 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

Examination Papers

The Library is working very hard to ensure that all released examination papers from last year are available electronically through the catalogue.
Please note that from this year the exam papers will not also be available in paper format, as previously, but will be provided on CDROMs.
In future this will mean that each library will hold a complete set of examination CDROMs as well as the catalogue providing access to the electronic versions.