Curtin University Library

Need help?

Faculty Librarians in each Faculty provide individual help and advice to teaching staff.

Contact details of Faculty Librarians.

Are your students limiting their searching to Google?

If you feel that your students are having difficulty finding the range of information sources required for assignments, the library can help develop their information skills.

Take a look at our brochure which gives details of the resources available to improve students' skills at accessing, evaluating and synthesising information. You can link to these online training resources from BlackBoard or WebCT.

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Information literacy

The Librarians in the Library's Research and Learning Services unit are happy to work with academic staff to ensure that information literacy outcomes are embedded into courses and units.

We can offer a variety of teaching and learning activities in various formats including:

• Lectures and tutorials in your teaching rooms.
• Workshops in the Library (for groups of up to 25 students).
• Seminars and lectures in the Library (for groups of up to 45 students).
• Online unit guides (that can be included in WebCT or Blackboard).
• Self directed activities.

Contact the Manager of the Research and Learning Services unit if you wish to discuss how we can work together to develop a program that meets the needs of your students.

More information:

• What is information literacy?
• Supporting your Teaching seminars

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Online unit guides

If you are coordinating a unit with large numbers which has a major assignment, the Library can provide an online unit guide of recommended resources, including online material.
Some examples are:

• Management 100
• Marketing 100
• MCI 101

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Workshops

Free sign-up database, internet and EndNote workshops are available during semester for all students and staff. You can view the timetable and book online on the Workshops page.

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Information Advisory Service

Research and Learning Services librarians are available for appointments with postgraduate coursework students or later year undergraduates who are undertaking a major project. A subject librarian will help to construct a search strategy and identify relevant databases and other resources for the topic.

Students can contact the Enquiries Desk on 9266 2145 or email us with details of the topic if they wish to make an appointment.

(Staff and postgraduate research students can contact their Faculty Librarian for similar assistance).

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Guides and Training

There are a number of online guides available to assist students and staff in using Library resources.

• Subject guides
  There are subject guides of recommended resources available for each major subject area.
  
• InfoTrekk
  This is a students' guide through the information maze. It covers ten steps to approaching any essay or presentation topic such as analysing a topic, finding articles on a reading list, finding journal articles, using the Library Catalogue and referencing.
  
• InfoTrekkPlus
  This is a helpful guide if you require your students to find more specialised information such as statistics, legislation and cases.
  
• Step-by-step guides
  These guides explain how to navigate the Library Catalogue, Gecko and databases or EndNote in easy steps.
  
• View-it tutorials
  These are short movies that you can watch at your own pace. We have view-its about the Library website, the Library Catalogue, EndNote, Find It and several databases.
• Podcasts
  We offer a range of 5 minute podcasts with helpful tips on everything from audio library tours and introductory information for new students to more advanced topics for researchers.

If you are using WebCT or Blackboard, you can provide a link to these resources and promote them to your students.

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