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10 Aug 2012
You speak - we listen --
Every year students and staff at the University of Melbourne complete surveys about the quality of their University experience.
Ever wondered what happens to all that data?
It's certainly not wasted! Staff in the University Library regularly review the results of client satistaction surveys, looking for ways to improve the Library's collections, services and facilities.
When you speak, we listen.
Based on feedback received in 2010 and 2011, we have:
- upgraded our scholarly search (Discovery) and online learning (LMS) systems;
- created beautiful new spaces for group work and quiet individual study;
- improved your computer-based access to Library resources and services by creating mobile-friendly web sites and apps, upgrading Library computers and introducing a Student IT support service;
- and embarked on a major project to tidy up all our shelves, making books and other items easier to find.
For details, see the 'feedback' section of our web site.
07 Aug 2012
Interlibrary Loans & Document Delivery Introducing Relais --
The University Library is implementing a new Interlibrary Loans (ILL) system in Semester 2, 2012.
The University Library is implementing new software to order Interlibrary Loans (ILL) in Semester 2, 2012. The ILL changes are part of a move from manual processes to automation within interlibrary loans & document delivery and to offer an improved service. Access points to the request form will remain the same and more information can be found here: http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/services/ill/
The University Library welcomes feedback on this process at ill-library@unimelb.edu.au
06 Aug 2012
Library Staff Excellence Awards now open --
The Library Staff Excellence Awards are now open to members of the University community (students, staff and visiting scholars).
Further details including how you can submit a nomination can be found at:
http://www.informationfutures.unimelb.edu.au/excellence_awards
These awards are designed to acknowledge outstanding contribution or service excellence by Library staff.
Awards will be announced and presented at a Library staff ceremony on Wednesday, 21 November, 2012.
Nominations strictly close at 5pm, Friday, 5 October, 2012 and nominations submitted after this date will not be considered.
03 Aug 2012
Library Merchandise --
The University Library has developed a range of quality gift merchandise which is available for staff, students and the broader community. The exclusive limited-edition products use some iconic images from the Library’s diverse collections, for example, a boldly printed silk scarf, hand-stitched and imported from Milan, and decorated tea towels. Other products carry subtle imagery of the Baillieu Library building. These include keep cups, leather notebooks, a luxurious leather messenger bag hand-made by artisans in Florence and much more.
The University Library Baillieu Shop range is available exclusively via the Co-op Bookshop retail outlets at Melbourne University and online at www.library.unimelb.edu.au/shop
02 Aug 2012
Treasures Revealed – New Updates --
Virtually experience some of the most prized possession held in the University Library by downloading the free App for ipad, iphone and Andriod. Recently updated, it now has treasures from the Grainger Museum and the University of Melbourne Archives. To download go to www.bit.ly/wp6IRA
03 Aug 2012
Celebrate Reading! Stories, Images & Text @ the Library -- Did you know it is the National Year of Reading?
We are celebrating by hosting free events from 10th-30th August 2012.
Events include breakfast readings with University authors, an exhibition of illustrated texts, a Tech Zoo featuring devices loaded with education apps and library ebooks, talks with celebrated authors Nicki Greenberg and Andy Griffiths and a celebration of Indigenous Literacy Day.
To learn more, book events and explore the resources we have curated go to our LibGuide at: http://unimelb.libguides.com/nyr12
03 Aug 2012
The Great Book Swap Challenge -- Celebrate Cultural Diversity Week by taking part in the Great Book Swap Challenge. How does it work? It’s very simple – and fun! Bring one of your favourite books, so you can swap it for someone else’s.
Choose one of your favourite books from home, fill in a bookplate letting the new owner know why you liked it and deposit it in the collection box at Sandra Woods desk, 4th floor Baillieu Library.
Then come along on Thursday 9 August, 10.30am, 4th floor tea room, Baillieu Library. Share some morning tea, browse the donated books, choose one to take home. We’ll also be collecting donations for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. For more info and the GBS bookplate please see www.indigenousliteracyfoundation.org.au/GBS
This event has been made possible through the support of the Academic Policy and Programs Unit, Office of the Provost. The full Diversity Week Program is at http://participationandengagement.unimelb.edu.au/diversityweek
03 Aug 2012
Cabell’s & PubsHub – directories to inform your publishing choices -- Test-drive these databases on trial. Both databases are available until 16 August 2012.
Cabell’s Directories of Publishing Opportunities
Access to the complete range of 11 directories during the trial:
• Business: Accounting; Economics and Finance; Management; Marketing
• Education: Educational Curriculum and Methods; Educational Psychology and Administration; Educational Technology of Library Science
• Health: Nursing; Health Administration
• Psychology: Psychology and Psychiatry
• Computer Science: Computer Science and Business Information Systems
Information for each listed journal includes: topic areas; acceptance rates; details on style and format; publication guidelines; contact details: addresses, e-mails and websites.
PubsHub Journals & Congresses
A database of submission criteria for nearly 6,000 medical peer-reviewed medical journals and congresses. Users can quickly evaluate, compare and analyse relevant journals and congresses submission and placement criteria.
• Journal information includes: impact factor, circulation, rejection rate, and time to acceptance.
• Congress information includes the frequency of the congress, number of attendees, association involved, and the next abstract due date
** To access full details users must first create a personal login within the database. Click on Register to fill out the online form, then login using your own 'Subscriber Login'.
Help us assess these resources on trial and contribute to decision-making by leaving your comments on the E-Resources@ the University of Melbourne blog.
03 Aug 2012
Colin Offord in concert - Sunday 26 August, presented by the Grainger Museum -- Sunday 26 August 2012, Museum opens 1pm, concert at 3.30pm
Grainger Museum, near Gate 13, Royal Parade, University of Melbourne
Adults $15, concession $10. Pay at the door, but please book ahead as numbers are limited. For bookings contact Yana Poulos: yana.poulos@unimelb.edu.au, 8344 3864
Grainger Museum, near Gate 13, Royal Parade, University of Melbourne
Adults $15, concession $10. Pay at the door, but please book ahead as numbers are limited. For bookings contact Yana Poulos: yana.poulos@unimelb.edu.au, 8344 3864
Composer, singer and music inventor Colin Offord has performed his uniquely Australasian music at festivals, art centres, concert halls and environmental settings throughout Australia and the world. Colin's musical travels have taken him across Europe and North America, throughout the island nations of the South Pacific, South and East Asia, Reunion Island and South Africa. Now is your chance to hear his take on 21st century music in the historic setting of the Grainger Museum. In addition to hearing Colin perform you will have the opportunity of viewing a display of his innovative instruments in the Museum. For more information about Colin Offord go to www.colinofford.com and www.youtube.com
03 Aug 2012
Lecture - 'Alexander North: an architectural free spirit' - Sunday 16 September -- Sunday 16 September 2012, Museum opens at 1.00pm, lecture from 2.00pm
Grainger Museum, near Gate 13, Royal Parade, University of Melbourne
Admission free. Please book ahead as numbers are limited. Bookings: http://graingerrnorth.eventbrite.com.au
Grainger Museum, near Gate 13, Royal Parade, University of Melbourne
Admission free. Please book ahead as numbers are limited. Bookings: http://graingerrnorth.eventbrite.com.au
This illustrated lecture by John Maidment examines the career of Alexander North (1858–1945), a highly accomplished British-born Australian architect and contemporary of John Harry Grainger. He became one of Australia’s leading architects in the Arts and Crafts idiom.
North’s designs are in several Australian states, New Zealand and Fiji. He built in timber, brick, stone and reinforced concrete, of which he was an early exponent. He was an architectural free spirit – his buildings have a great sense of individuality and often make a profound statement, with a constantly evolving sense of style. He built up an amazing vocabulary of recurrent details and motifs. North collected and identified many indigenous botanical specimens, sources for the carved detailing on his buildings and furniture. He actively encouraged local craftspeople to contribute to his buildings’ decoration in many media. He was also an eloquent architectural writer and we are fortunate that a large number of his original designs survive. North worked on designs for more than 200 buildings during his Australian career.
At the conclusion of the talk, we will visit Trinity College Chapel, close to the Grainger Museum, which was designed by North and opened in 1916, a building at the peak of the Australian Arts and Crafts Movement and showing enormous inventiveness.
More than 40 years ago, John Maidment was greatly taken by North’s architecture, impressed particularly by his buildings’ striking lines and wonderful style and their splendid acoustics for music. Since then he has researched North’s background and visited the majority of the buildings he constructed. Maidment has written accounts of his work in journals and encyclopaedias. John Maidment is co-author of the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) publication Victorian Churches (1991), and was for a number of years architecture and planning librarian at the University of Melbourne. He has published widely on the history of pipe organs in Australia and is chairman of the Organ Historical Trust of Australia, for which he was awarded the OAM in 1999.