Library Services for Staff

The Library offers a wide range of services to both academic/teaching staff and corporate/general staff.

If you have any queries, please contact your Liaison Librarian or Ask us! (by email or telephone).

Borrowing

• How to obtain a borrower's card
• Borrowing information
• Borrowing periods
• Library fines and penalties

Audiovisual material and equipment

• Audiovisual material
  • Borrowing videos/DVD's for use in class or at home
  • Booking videos/DVD's for use in class : Video & DVD booking form (for class use)
  • High demand material (Audiovisual Reserve)
• Equipment
  • Booking and borrowing equipment for use in class
  • Equipment available for loan
  • Technical assistance

Reserve collections

The Reserve collections aim to make available high demand material, particularly those included on student reading lists : see Reserve collections - a staff guide - Printable brochure (PDF)

• Hard copy reserve (e.g books and videos)
  • High demand library books, particularly required or recommended textbooks, can be placed within the hard-copy reserve collection.
  • Audiovisual items can also be placed on reserve : see Audiovisual reserve
  • Most items placed on reserve are only available for two-hour loan to use within the Library.
  • To place a hard-copy item on reserve, submit an online Reserve Placement Form
  • Personal copies of items loaned to the library by teaching staff can also be placed on reserve.
  • contact the Service Desk at your campus
• Online reserve
  • Online reserve provides online access to book chapters and journal articles scanned from print copies under the Copyright Act statutory licence for educational copying.
  • Online reserve can also link directly to articles in the Library's online databases.
    • see Online reserve user guide
    • Putting material into online reserve : Request form - PDF version : Word version
    • Linking to articles in online reserve

Photocopying and printing

• Photocopying and printing - the debit card system and prices
• Faculty/School photocopying in the Library - procedure for charging a Faculty/School for the cost of photocopies made by teaching and non-teaching staff
• Copyright at Swinburne

Services for particular groups

• Staff working overseas
• Staff providing workplace training (off campus)
• Students/staff who have a disability
• Online and Off campus students
• Postgraduate students

Training for you and your students

• For your students
  • Library training workshops
  • Check the schedule for upcoming classes at Croydon, Hawthorn Lilydale Prahran Wantirna
  • Library training programs in class time - contact your Liaison Librarian to book a library orientation and/or information skills session.
• For staff
  • Library training programs for staff
  • Endnote - sessions for staff, postgraduate and honours students on using this bibliographic software package.

Resources at other libraries

• Inter-library loans
  • Swinburne staff may request material not held at any Swinburne campus library, including books, journal articles, conference proceedings and theses.
  • Requests must support current research and/or teaching at Swinburne.
  • Requests can be submitted online via the Inter-library loans page.
• Reciprical borrowing
• Current Swinburne staff and students can borrow from tertiary education institutions in Victoria or elsewhere in Australia through the following reciprocal borrowing programs :
  • CAVAL Reciprocal Borrowing Program (Victorian university and TAFE libraries)
  • TAFE National Reciprocal Borrowing Scheme (TAFE libraries in Vic, Qld and ACT)
  • University Library Australia (Interstate university libraries)
• For more information, including how to register, see Reciprocal borrowing guide.
• Other library catalogues
  • Contains links to other university library catalogues.

Requesting material for the library

• Staff are strongly encouraged to select books and other materials for the library to purchase.
• Send any requests to your Liaison Librarian. You can do this in various ways:
• email the details of the item directly to your Liaison Librarian
• mark publishers' catalogues and blurbs and send them in the internal mail,
• or submit an online purchase suggestion form
• For more information, see Ordering library materials - a staff guide - Printable brochure (PDF)
• To identify relevant titles, you can browse this list of publishers and suppliers online catalogues

Need more help?

• For brief general inquiries, Ask us! by email or telephone
• Your Liaison Librarian can provide more extensive help, such as assisting you find resources, conduct database searches, compile bibliographies, and purchase library materials.