Posts from — August 2010

If you have a passion for art history, or art in general, check out the Melbourne Art Network (MAN) website.

It’s an excellent place to find information and resources on events, conferences, calls-for-papers, useful links, news and commentary, all relating to the love of art.

Training @ La Trobe run EndNote X2 courses for academic staff and postgraduate students throughout the year.

Course dates for September are as follows:

EndNote X2- Getting Started

Bendigo- Monday, 13 September, 9.30am-12.30pm

Melbourne- Wednesday, 15 September, 9.30am–12.30pm

EndNote  X2- Importing References

Bendigo- Monday, 13 September, 1.30-4.30pm

Melbourne- Wednesday, 15 September, 1.30–4.30pm

Registration is essential for these courses. The cost for students is $20 per session. Please visit the Training @ La Trobe website for further information and to register.

The online skill session, Sourcing materials from other libraries, is part of the library’s ResearchSmart skill development series.

Are you finding what you need for your academic studies? Do you know about document delivery, or how to request materials using interlibrary and intercampus loans?

This online LibGuide would be useful for new research students or anyone wanting to update their skills.

The next eCoffee forum- ‘Publications Policy’, will be presented by Dr Ted Rohr, Manager Research Compliance; Dr Mark Kosten, Director eResearch; and Michael Wood, Digital Infrastructure Manager.

Topics will include:

• publications repository
• theses to be deposited digitally
• open access journals
• action plan for La Trobe academics

Date: Friday, 27 August
Time: 10am -11am
Venue: level 1, seminar room, Melbourne campus library

A series of 3 sessions is being conducted this semester, across all campuses, to support research students and raise awareness of the library’s resources and support services.

The first of the series is:

Measuring research impact

Wednesday, 25 August, from 11am-12pm

This session is for anyone who wants to find out more about what they are required to do to prepare for research, the terminology involved, and how the library can help. This is a great way to provide some background and a context to research before meeting with your Faculty Librarian for further assistance.

Locations:

• Albury-Wodonga, Library Training Room
• Bendigo, Library Training Room
• Melbourne, Library Seminar Room
• Mildura, contact: Maureen Speed, t: 5051 4026
• Shepparton, contact: Iris Ambrose, t: 5833 2642

Book your place online by visiting the training page.

The library is conducting a survey for students and staff.

We want feedback on the things that matter to you. We want to know what we’re doing right and even what we could be doing a little better.

Have your say and your confidential entry will go into the prize pool. You could win the grand prize of the latest Apple iPad. There are loads of other great prizes too, from Co-op Bookshop vouchers to iTunes cards.

Keep an eye out for the survey link on the library’s homepage, starting Monday, 23 August. The survey runs until Friday, 10 September.

Don’t miss out!!

La Trobe University’s “Ideas & Society Program” is presenting Greens’ Leader, Senator Bob Brown, as its speaker on Wednesday 11 August.

The event is free and open to the public.  It will be held at 12 noon in Union Hall at the University’s Melbourne campus in Bundoora.

The event will be chaired by the Vice-Chancellor of La Trobe University, Professor Paul Johnson.

For further information, please contact Professor Robert Manne:  r.manne@latrobe.edu.au or 03-9479-2114.

The Library has developed a draft Collection Development Framework which outlines the principles that ensure information resources are acquired in line with the University’s strategic teaching and research directions.

We invite you to look at the draft Collection Development Framework and give us your feedback via the online form.

Contents of the Draft Framework include:

• collection development and the Strategic Plan
• responsibility for library information resources
• library clientele
• access to collections
• background of the collection
• resource selection principles
• gifts and donations
• digital repository and ADT
• storage
• deselection
• cooperative relationships with other libraries
• preservation and conservation
• collection evaluation

Following the successful 2009 eCoffee series, the Library and the eResearch office have collaborated to organise an exciting schedule of fortnightly eCoffee forums during second semester.

The first of the series- ‘The Evolving World of e-Science: Impact and Implications’, will be presented by University Librarian, Prof Ainslie Dewe.

• Date: Friday, 13 August
• Time: 10am -11am
• Venue: level 1, seminar room – Melbourne campus library

Beginning on Wednesday, 11 August, the Melbourne Health Sciences Librarians will be running weekly sessions for CINAHL and Medline databases.

These sessions will be held every Wednesday at 1pm, in the library and will alternate between the 2 databases each week. The first session will cover CINAHL.

This is an excellent opportunity for students and staff to brush up on their database skills, or a chance to catch up for students who may have missed their library session.

Staff and students can register for the classes online:

• The mysteries of Medline
• The secrets of CINAHL