I am a… Online Librarian Library Officer Information Services Librarian Liaison Librarian Campus Librarian School Librarian Literacy Advisor ReadingsDirect Document Delivery Staff Digital Discovery & Services Research Services Coordinator Research Metadata Staff Acquisitions Staff Acquisitions Team Leaders Cataloguing Staff Cataloguing Team Leaders
Undergraduate
  1. Answer my questions about using the Library’s services and resources, via chat, phone or email.
  2. Create and maintain the Library’s FAQs that will help answer my queries.
  3. Help me find, use and cite the best resources for an assignment/exam.
  4. Provide me with just-in-time support on using the library’s databases.
  1. Help me at a Service Desk to borrow books, pay fines and print/copy/scan stuff.
  2. Answer basic questions I have about searching for or using library resources.
  3. Provide frontline support in using vUWS & Turnitin.
  4. Make sure I’m happy, safe and comfortable, and that everything in the library is working as it should.
  5. Host #LibraryBrainBreaks as a fun break from study.
  6. Scan journal articles and book chapters to email to you and mail out books.
  7. Provide frontline support with lending and searching when you visit the library.
  1. Help me in my campus library to become an expert information user.
  2. Deliver workshops and tutorials to help me build my info literacy skills.
  3. Help me access and use my unit reading list.
  4. Help me find, use and cite the best resources in the Study Smart Zone.
  5. Provide some guidance on the use of Turnitin.
  6. Provide information literacy support when I visit a campus library.
  7. Deliver webinars and online support in collaboration with School and Liaison Librarians.
  1. Provide in-class, tutorial, workshop and face-to-face support to find and use the best resources.
  2. Develop learning objects that help me to critically evaluate info sources.
  3. Help me access and use my unit reading list.
  4. Provide just-in-time referencing support in the Study Smart Zone.
  5. Provide guidance in how to use vUWS/Turnitin.
  6. Deliver online webinars and interactive tutorials at my School’s request.
  7. Develop online resources to will help me find and cite the best information for my assignment.
  1. Ensure that library staff are rostered at service points and available to me when I need them.
  2. Manage library spaces so that I can study and meet with other students in a safe learning commons.
  3. Make sure that high-use and general books are shelved in a timely way.
  4. Manage and report tech issues so that I can use a computer/printer/wi-fi.
  5. Ensure that books and chapters I requested are sent in a timely fashion.
  6. Ensure books I return are cleared in a timely way.
  7. Make me feel welcome if I choose to visit one of the campus libraries.
  1. Work with my School to ensure I gain the information literacy skills I need to succeed.
  2. Ensure that the Library collects the resources I need for my studies.
  3. Help me access and use my unit reading list.
  4. Help me find, use and cite the best resources for my assignment.
  5. Provide guidance in how to use Turnitin.
  6. Work with my School to embed the info skills I need in my course.
  7. Ensure that the Library collects the resources I will need in my units.
  8. Create online resources to help me find and cite the best resources.
  9. Work with literacy advisors and liaison librarians to deliver the support I need at uni.
  1. Work with my School to ensure that I gain the academic literacy skills I need to succeed at uni.
  2. Create learning resources in vUWS and on the web to help me with scholarly writing and reading skills.
  3. Develop resources to help me understand academic integrity and how to avoid plagiarism.
  4. Work with librarians to scaffold skills in courses.
  5. Work with my School to embed the academic skills I need in my course.
  6. Create online learning resources to help me with academic writing.
  7. Develop resources to help me learn about academic integrity and how to avoid plagiarism.
  1. Compile a readings & resources list based on items in the learning guide.
  2. Provide access to the Free Digital Textbook for level one units.
  3. Add to your Reading list, scanned pdfs of chapters and journal articles not available in other electronic formats (subject to copyright).
  4. Ensure your Readings & Resources list is placed on your vUWS site.
  5. Troubleshoot Readings & Resources list issues
  1. Undergraduates are not eligible for this service. If there is a title you require for your studies and cannot locate in the SearchBox, please use the following form: Request Books and Audio
  1. Provide access to online material via the SearchBox
  2. Add new content to the Subject guides to assist in your assisgnments
  3. Resolve any temporary access issues for online material
  4. Load Records into the Searchbox which originate from large package acquisitions
  5. Promote the use of databases in the SearchBox by using the Recommender service.
  6. Manage electronic subscription vendors to enable acquisition of the best resources for your units and ensure annual price rises are within an acceptable range.
  7. Report on cost per use for electronic material
  8. Ensure licensed material has multiple concurrent access, download and print features to enable the best user experience.
  9. Produce quality learning objects for your unit and grant access via the library website, the searchbox and your vUWS site.
  10. Provide you with resources for "Study Break"
  1. Provide comprehensive webpages giving information on Research and publishing.
  1. Provide you with access to Western Research and Theses in ResearchDirect.
  1. Will order items on your readings & resources list for you to access, with a preference for electronic format.
  2. Will order copies of your prescribed textbook for your use (Please note, e-Textbooks are not always licensed for the library to purchase, and we cannot commit to buying a print textbook for each student in a unit)
  3. Order additional book and journal material to enable you to do extensive reading in your course of study
  4. Pay invoices for library material which involve robust processing workflows which are praised by auditors.
  1. Ensure staff are trained to ensure different resource types are purchased from the individual vendors with the best access and delivery times
  2. Provide seamless access to thousands of additional ebook titles via a Patron driven plan, meaning the library only pays for these books when you read or download them
  3. Ensuring Collection Profile with vendors is accurate. This involves breaking down the teaching and learning areas into library assigned subject numbers and defining bibliographic parameters.
  4. Collection assessment - ensuring that only up to date editions are held in the library. That minor collection movements are made when courses change location (subject to space requirements).
  5. When moving items to our storage facility on the Hawkesbury campus, ensure that any item that is the last copy in Australia is retained by the library
  1. Provide access to material via the SearchBox by ensuring metadata, including subject headings, is correct, enabling you to find content in the library search box.
  2. Catalogue new books so they reside with other books on the same topic
  3. Initiate a process where the library will reduce or remove access to older, out of date editions on the shelf
  4. Ensure the spine labels are consistently readable, and replace the fading or peeling labels on well used books.
  5. Fast track cataloguing an item which has a hold on it.
  6. Maintain the collection and replace high use or missing items
  1. Ensure materials are catalogued to international standards which enable access via standard access points. These are title, author, subject heading, dewey number and series title.
  2. The team leader ensures that once a requested item or book on your reading list is received into the library, that the book is catalogued and sent to the campus library within 3 days.
  3. Ensure consistency amongst authorities - so that when you click on an author name or subject heading, that results in the search box are the best possible.
  4. Ensure that items in our collection authored by WSU staff are permanently retained.
  5. Control what items in our collection are discoverable in the Libraries Australia Database.
Post Graduate Student
  1. Answer my questions about using the Library’s services and resources, via chat, phone or email.
  2. Create and maintain the Library’s FAQs that will help answer my queries.
  3. Help me find, use and cite the best resources for an assignment/exam.
  4. Provide me with just-in-time support on using the library’s databases.
  1. Help me at a Service Desk to borrow books, pay fines and print/copy/scan stuff.
  2. Answer basic questions I have about searching for or using library resources.
  3. Provide frontline support in using vUWS & Turnitin.
  4. Make sure I’m happy, safe and comfortable, and that everything in the library is working as it should.
  5. Host #LibraryBrainBreaks as a fun break from study.
  1. Help me in my campus library to become an expert information user.
  2. Deliver workshops and tutorials to help me build my info literacy skills.
  3. Help me access and use my unit reading list.
  4. Help me find, use and cite the best resources in the Study Smart Zone.
  5. Provide some guidance on the use of Turnitin.
  1. Provide in-class, tutorial, workshop and face-to-face support to find and use the best resources.
  2. Develop learning objects that help me to critically evaluate info sources.
  3. Help me access and use my unit reading list.
  4. Provide just-in-time referencing support in the Study Smart Zone.
  5. Provide guidance in how to use vUWS/Turnitin.
  1. Ensure that library staff are rostered at service points and available to me when I need them.
  2. Manage library spaces so that I can study and meet with other students in a safe learning commons.
  3. Make sure that high-use and general books are shelved in a timely way.
  4. Manage and report tech issues so that I can use a computer/printer/wi-fi.
  1. Work with my School to ensure I gain the information literacy skills I need to succeed.
  2. Ensure that the Library collects the resources I need for my studies.
  3. Help me access and use my unit reading list.
  4. Help me find, use and cite the best resources for my assignment.
  5. Provide guidance in how to use Turnitin.
  1. Work with my School to ensure that I gain the academic literacy skills I need to succeed at uni.
  2. Create learning resources in vUWS and on the web to help me with scholarly writing and reading skills.
  3. Develop resources to help me understand academic integrity and how to avoid plagiarism.
  4. Work with librarians to scaffold skills in courses.
  1. Compile a readings & resources list based on items in the learning guide.
  2. Ensure your Readings & Resources list is placed on your vUWS site.
  3. Add to your Reading list, scanned pdfs of chapters and journal articles not available in other electronic formats (subject to copyright).
  4. Troubleshoot Readings & Resources list issues
  1. Acquire non-WSU owned material for your studies. This includes books, journal articles and other material. These will be sourced by prioritising lending libraries to ensure you get your requested item in the fastest time possible
  1. Provide access to online material via the SearchBox
  2. Add new content to the Subject guides to assist in your research
  3. Resolve any temporary access issues for online material
  4. Load Records into the Searchbox which originate from large package acquisitions
  5. Promote the use of databases in the SearchBox by using the Recommender service.
  6. Manage electronic subscription vendors to enable acquisition of the best resources for your units and ensure annual price rises are within an acceptable range.
  7. Report on cost per use for electronic material
  8. Ensure licensed material has multiple concurrent access, download and print features to enable the best user experience.
  9. Produce quality learning objects for your unit and grant access via the library website, the searchbox and your vUWS site.
  10. Provide you with resources for "Study Break"

For Masters by Research students, provide advice on the following:

  1. Research Data Management
  2. Research Lifecycle
  3. Profile management, including ORCid and Google Scholar.
  4. Open Access Publishing, including Funder mandates
  5. Metrics – how to generate reports to measure the impact your research has made.
  6. Strategic publishing – how to ensure your research has the maximum professional and institutional impact.
  1. If you have graduated with WSU - provide open access to your Masters by Research Thesis, enabling discovery in ResearchDirect, Library SearchBox, Trove and Proquest Theses.
  2. Add your research publication to ResearchDirect.
  3. Allocate a unique and persistent identifier to your research publication
  4. Assist in curating your data
  5. Upload your data to Research Data Australia, if requested.
  6. Upload your report to Analysis Policy and Observatory, if appropriate
  1. Will order items on your readings & resources list for you to access, with a preference for electronic format.
  2. Will order copies of your prescribed textbook for your use (Please note, e-Textbooks are not always licensed for the library to purchase, and we cannot commit to buying a print textbook for each student in a unit)
  3. Order additional book and journal material to enable you to do extensive reading in your course of study
  4. Pay invoices for library material which involve robust processing workflows which are praised by auditors.
  1. Ensure staff are trained to ensure different resource types are purchased from the individual vendors with the best access and delivery times
  2. Provide seamless access to thousands of additional ebook titles via a Patron driven plan, meaning the library only pays for these books when you read or download them
  3. Ensuring Collection Profile with vendors is accurate. This involves breaking down the teaching and learning areas into library assigned subject numbers and defining bibliographic parameters.
  4. Collection assessment - ensuring that only up to date editions are held in the library. That minor collection movements are made when courses change location (subject to space requirements).
  5. When moving items to our storage facility on the Hawkesbury campus, ensure that any item that is the last copy in Australia is retained by the library
  1. Provide access to material via the SearchBox by ensuring metadata, including subject headings, is correct, enabling you to find content in the library search box.
  2. Catalogue new books so they reside with other books on the same topic
  3. Initiate a process where the library will reduce or remove access to older, out of date editions on the shelf
  4. Ensure the spine labels are consistently readable, and replace the fading or peeling labels on well used books.
  5. Fast track cataloguing an item which has a hold on it.
  6. Maintain the collection and replace high use or missing items
  1. Ensure materials are catalogued to international standards which enable access via standard access points. These are title, author, subject heading, dewey number and series title.
  2. The team leader ensures that once a requested item or book on your reading list is received into the library, that the book is catalogued and sent to the campus library within 3 days.
  3. Ensure consistency amongst authorities - so that when you click on an author name or subject heading, that results in the search box are the best possible.
  4. Ensure that items in our collection authored by WSU staff are permanently retained.
  5. Control what items in our collection are discoverable in the Libraries Australia Database.
Higher Degree Student
  1. Provide frontline support via chat, phone or email.
  2. Maintain the library’s FAQs to answer my frequently asked queries.
  3. Refer me to the most appropriate person to help with my research.
  1. Help me at a Service Desk to access a range of scholarly resources.
  2. Make sure I am happy, safe and comfortable.
  3. Refer me to the most appropriate person to help me with my research.
  1. Provide frontline support at my campus library.
  2. Provide research support in the Study Smart Zone.
  3. Refer me to the most appropriate person to help with my research.
  1. Provide just-in-time, face-to-face support.
  2. Provide info searching and referencing support in the Study Smart Zone.
  3. Provide basic research support when my School Librarian is unavailable.
  4. Ensure I am aware of the learning resources and support available to me.
  5. Help me to monitor my research impact.
  1. Ensure that library staff are rostered at service points and available to me when I need them.
  2. Manage library spaces so that I can study and meet with other students in a safe learning commons.
  3. Ensure that librarians are available in core hours to help with my research.
  4. Manage and report tech issues so that I can use a computer/printer/wi-fi.
  1. Provide one-on-one consultations to support all my research needs, including literature reviews, research methods, publication strategies, author profiles and research impact.
  2. Deliver specialist sessions and learning activities in my school.
  3. Create learning objects that help my research.
  1. Create self-help online resources that will help with my scholarly writing and academic integrity.
  2. Create resources to help me stay safe online and manage my online ID.
  3. Work with my School to design resources to help my understanding of a discipline’s discourse.
  4. Work with my School Librarian to support my academic & info literacy.
  1. Compile a readings & resources list based on items in the learning guide.
  2. Ensure your Readings & Resources list is placed on your vUWS site.
  3. Add to your Reading list, scanned pdfs of chapters and journal articles not available in other electronic formats (subject to copyright).
  4. Troubleshoot Readings & Resources list issues
  1. Acquire non-WSU owned material for your studies. This includes books, journal articles and other material. These will be sourced by prioritising lending libraries to ensure you get your requested item in the fastest time possible
  1. Provide access to online material via the SearchBox
  2. Add new content to the Subject guides to assist in your research
  3. Resolve any temporary access issues for online material
  4. Load Records into the Searchbox which originate from large package acquisitions
  5. Promote the use of databases in the SearchBox by using the Recommender service.
  6. Manage electronic subscription vendors to enable acquisition of the best resources for your units and ensure annual price rises are within an acceptable range.
  7. Report on cost per use for electronic material
  8. Ensure licensed material has multiple concurrent access, download and print features to enable the best user experience.
  9. Produce quality learning objects for your unit and grant access via the library website, the searchbox and your vUWS site.
  10. Provide you with resources for "Study Break"
  1. Research Data Management
  2. Research Lifecycle
  3. Profile management, including ORCid and Google Scholar.
  4. Open Access Publishing, including Funder mandates
  5. Metrics – how to generate reports to measure the impact your research has made.
  6. Strategic publishing – how to ensure your research has the maximum professional and institutional impact.
  1. If you have graduated with WSU - provide open access to your Masters by Research Thesis, enabling discovery in ResearchDirect, Library SearchBox, Trove and Proquest Theses.
  2. Add your research publication to ResearchDirect.
  3. Assist in curating your data
  4. Allocate a unique and persistent identifier to your research publication
  5. Upload your data to Research Data Australia, if requested
  6. Upload your report to Analysis Policy and Observatory, if appropriate
  1. Will order items on your readings & resources list for you to access, with a preference for electronic format.
  2. Will order copies of your prescribed textbook for your use (Please note, e-Textbooks are not always licensed for the library to purchase, and we cannot commit to buying a print textbook for each student in a unit)
  3. Order additional book and journal material to enable you to do extensive reading in your course of study
  4. Pay invoices for library material which involve robust processing workflows which are praised by auditors.
  1. Ensure staff are trained to ensure different resource types are purchased from the individual vendors with the best access and delivery times
  2. Provide seamless access to thousands of additional ebook titles via a Patron driven plan, meaning the library only pays for these books when you read or download them
  3. Ensuring Collection Profile with vendors is accurate. This involves breaking down the teaching and learning areas into library assigned subject numbers and defining bibliographic parameters.
  4. Collection assessment - ensuring that only up to date editions are held in the library. That minor collection movements are made when courses change location (subject to space requirements).
  5. When moving items to our storage facility on the Hawkesbury campus, ensure that any item that is the last copy in Australia is retained by the library
  1. Provide access to material via the SearchBox by ensuring metadata, including subject headings, is correct, enabling you to find content in the library search box.
  2. Catalogue new books so they reside with other books on the same topic
  3. Initiate a process where the library will reduce or remove access to older, out of date editions on the shelf
  4. Ensure the spine labels are consistently readable, and replace the fading or peeling labels on well used books.
  5. Fast track cataloguing an item which has a hold on it.
  6. Maintain the collection and replace high use or missing items
  1. Ensure materials are catalogued to international standards which enable access via standard access points. These are title, author, subject heading, dewey number and series title.
  2. The team leader ensures that once a requested item or book on your reading list is received into the library, that the book is catalogued and sent to the campus library within 3 days.
  3. Ensure consistency amongst authorities - so that when you click on an author name or subject heading, that results in the search box are the best possible.
  4. Ensure that items in our collection authored by WSU staff are permanently retained.
  5. Control what items in our collection are discoverable in the Libraries Australia Database.
External Student
  1. Answer my questions about using the Library’s services and resources, via chat, phone or email.
  2. Create and maintain the Library’s FAQs that will help answer my queries.
  3. Help me find, use and cite the best resources for an assignment/exam.
  4. Provide me with just-in-time support on using the library’s databases.
  1. Help me at a Service Desk to borrow books, pay fines and print/copy/scan stuff.
  2. Answer basic questions I have about searching for or using library resources.
  3. Provide frontline support in using vUWS & Turnitin.
  4. Make sure I’m happy, safe and comfortable, and that everything in the library is working as it should.
  5. Host #LibraryBrainBreaks as a fun break from study.
  6. Scan journal articles and book chapters to email to you and mail out books.
  7. Provide frontline support with lending and searching when you visit the library.
  1. Help me in my campus library to become an expert information user.
  2. Deliver workshops and tutorials to help me build my info literacy skills.
  3. Help me access and use my unit reading list.
  4. Help me find, use and cite the best resources in the Study Smart Zone.
  5. Provide some guidance on the use of Turnitin.
  6. Provide information literacy support when I visit a campus library.
  7. Deliver webinars and online support in collaboration with School and Liaison Librarians.
  1. Provide in-class, tutorial, workshop and face-to-face support to find and use the best resources.
  2. Develop learning objects that help me to critically evaluate info sources.
  3. Help me access and use my unit reading list.
  4. Provide just-in-time referencing support in the Study Smart Zone.
  5. Provide guidance in how to use vUWS/Turnitin.
  6. Deliver online webinars and interactive tutorials at my School’s request.
  7. Develop online resources to will help me find and cite the best information for my assignment.
  1. Ensure that library staff are rostered at service points and available to me when I need them.
  2. Manage library spaces so that I can study and meet with other students in a safe learning commons.
  3. Make sure that high-use and general books are shelved in a timely way.
  4. Manage and report tech issues so that I can use a computer/printer/wi-fi.
  5. Ensure that books and chapters I requested are sent in a timely fashion.
  6. Ensure books I return are cleared in a timely way.
  7. Make me feel welcome if I choose to visit one of the campus libraries.
  1. Work with my School to ensure I gain the information literacy skills I need to succeed.
  2. Ensure that the Library collects the resources I need for my studies.
  3. Help me access and use my unit reading list.
  4. Help me find, use and cite the best resources for my assignment.
  5. Provide guidance in how to use Turnitin.
  6. Work with my School to embed the info skills I need in my course.
  7. Ensure that the Library collects the resources I will need in my units.
  8. Create online resources to help me find and cite the best resources.
  9. Work with literacy advisors and liaison librarians to deliver the support I need at uni.
  1. Work with my School to ensure that I gain the academic literacy skills I need to succeed at uni.
  2. Create learning resources in vUWS and on the web to help me with scholarly writing and reading skills.
  3. Develop resources to help me understand academic integrity and how to avoid plagiarism.
  4. Work with librarians to scaffold skills in courses.
  5. Work with my School to embed the academic skills I need in my course.
  6. Create online learning resources to help me with academic writing.
  7. Develop resources to help me learn about academic integrity and how to avoid plagiarism.
  1. Compile a readings & resources list based on items in the learning guide.
  2. Provide access to the Free Digital Textbook for level one units.
  3. Add to your Reading list, scanned pdfs of chapters and journal articles not available in other electronic formats (subject to copyright).
  4. Ensure your Readings & Resources list is placed on your vUWS site.
  5. Troubleshoot Readings & Resources list issues
  1. External Students are not eligible for this service. If there is a title you require for your studies and cannot locate in the SearchBox, please use the following form: Request Books and Audio
  1. Provide access to online material via the SearchBox
  2. Add new content to the Subject guides to assist in your assisgnments
  3. Resolve any temporary access issues for online material
  4. Load Records into the Searchbox which originate from large package acquisitions
  5. Promote the use of databases in the SearchBox by using the Recommender service.
  6. Manage electronic subscription vendors to enable acquisition of the best resources for your units and ensure annual price rises are within an acceptable range.
  7. Report on cost per use for electronic material
  8. Ensure licensed material has multiple concurrent access, download and print features to enable the best user experience.
  9. Produce quality learning objects for your unit and grant access via the library website, the searchbox and your vUWS site.
  10. Provide you with resources for "Study Break"
  1. Provide comprehensive webpages giving information on Research and publishing.
  1. Provide you with access to Western Research and Theses in ResearchDirect.
  1. Will order items on your readings & resources list for you to access, with a preference for electronic format.
  2. Will order copies of your prescribed textbook for your use (Please note, e-Textbooks are not always licensed for the library to purchase, and we cannot commit to buying a print textbook for each student in a unit)
  3. Order additional book and journal material to enable you to do extensive reading in your course of study
  4. Pay invoices for library material which involve robust processing workflows which are praised by auditors.
  1. Ensure staff are trained to ensure different resource types are purchased from the individual vendors with the best access and delivery times
  2. Provide seamless access to thousands of additional ebook titles via a Patron driven plan, meaning the library only pays for these books when you read or download them
  3. Ensuring Collection Profile with vendors is accurate. This involves breaking down the teaching and learning areas into library assigned subject numbers and defining bibliographic parameters.
  4. Collection assessment - ensuring that only up to date editions are held in the library. That minor collection movements are made when courses change location (subject to space requirements).
  5. When moving items to our storage facility on the Hawkesbury campus, ensure that any item that is the last copy in Australia is retained by the library
  1. Provide access to material via the SearchBox by ensuring metadata, including subject headings, is correct, enabling you to find content in the library search box.
  2. Catalogue new books so they reside with other books on the same topic
  3. Initiate a process where the library will reduce or remove access to older, out of date editions on the shelf
  4. Ensure the spine labels are consistently readable, and replace the fading or peeling labels on well used books.
  5. Fast track cataloguing an item which has a hold on it.
  6. Maintain the collection and replace high use or missing items
  1. Ensure materials are catalogued to international standards which enable access via standard access points. These are title, author, subject heading, dewey number and series title.
  2. The team leader ensures that once a requested item or book on your reading list is received into the library, that the book is catalogued and sent to the campus library within 3 days.
  3. Ensure consistency amongst authorities - so that when you click on an author name or subject heading, that results in the search box are the best possible.
  4. Ensure that items in our collection authored by WSU staff are permanently retained.
  5. Control what items in our collection are discoverable in the Libraries Australia Database.
Academic
  1. Provide frontline help with library teaching resources and services, via chat, phone or email
  2. Refer me to the most appropriate person to help with my teaching.
  1. Help me at a Service Desk to access a range of teaching resources.
  2. Make sure I am happy, safe and comfortable.
  3. Refer me to the most appropriate person to support my teaching.
  1. Provide frontline help with library teaching resources and services.
  2. Deliver workshops and tutorials for my students.
  3. Refer me to the most appropriate person to support my teaching.
  1. Liaise with you to create the learning activities and resources agreed with a School Librarian.
  2. Deliver information literacy workshops to your students, e.g. Info Searching; EndNote.
  3. Provide face-to-face support to your students working on assessments or studying for an exam.
  1. Ensure that library staff are rostered at service points and available to me when I need them.
  2. Manage library spaces so that I can find a quiet place to read and write.
  3. Ensure that librarians are available in core hours to help with my research.
  4. Manage and report tech issues so that I can use a computer/printer/wi-fi.
  1. Work with you to embed and scaffold information literacy skills in curricula.
  2. Support you in the creation and updating of reading lists for learning guides.
  3. Ensure that the library’s collections support your courses on your campuses.
  1. Work with you to embed and scaffold academic skills in course curricula.
  2. Support you in the creation of learning resources to improve academic writing skills.
  3. Make available a range of online literacy learning objects and resources.
  1. Compile a readings & resources list based on items in your learning guide.
  2. Compile a readings & resources list based on items in your email to ReadingsDirect@westernsydney.edu.au
  3. Provide access to the Free Digital Textbook for level one units.Add to your Reading list, scanned pdfs of chapters and journal articles not available in other electronic formats (subject to copyright)
  4. Ensure your Readings & Resources list is placed on your vUWS site.
  5. Troubleshoot Readings & Resources list issues
  1. Acquire non-WSU owned material for your teaching or research. This includes books, journal articles and other material. These will be sourced by prioritising lending libraries to ensure you get your requested item in the fastest time possible
  1. Provide access to online material via the SearchBox
  2. Add new content to the Subject guides to assist in your research
  3. Resolve any temporary access issues for online material
  4. Load Records into the Searchbox which originate from large package acquisitions
  5. Promote the use of databases in the SearchBox by using the Recommender service.
  6. Manage electronic subscription vendors to enable acquisition of the best resources for your units and ensure annual price rises are within an acceptable range.
  7. Report on cost per use for electronic material
  8. Ensure licensed material has multiple concurrent access, download and print features to enable the best user experience.
  9. Produce quality learning objects for your unit and grant access via the library website, the searchbox and your vUWS site.
  10. Provide you with resources for "Study Break"

Provide advice on the following:

  1. Research Data Management 
  2. Research Lifecycle
  3. Profile management, including ORCid and Google Scholar.
  4. Open Access Publishing, including Funder mandates
  5. Metrics – how to generate reports to measure the impact your research has made. 
  6. Strategic publishing – how to ensure your research has the maximum professional and institutional impact.
  1. If you have graduated with WSU - provide open access to your Masters by Research or PhD Thesis, enabling discovery in ResearchDirect, Library SearchBox, Trove and Proquest Theses.
  2. Add your research publications to ResearchDirect.
  3. Let REDI know if your publication is reportable for ERA, allowing workload points to be added.
  4. Allocate a unique and persistent identifier to your research publication
  5. Assist in curating your data
  6. Upload your data to Research Data Australia.
  7. Upload your report to Analysis Policy and Observatory, if appropriate
  1. Will order items you place on your readings & resources list for your students to access, with a preference for electronic format.
  2. Will order copies of your prescribed textbook for your students' use (Please note, e-Textbooks are not always licensed for the library to purchase, and we cannot commit to buying a print textbook for each student in a unit)
  3. Order additional book and journal material to enable your students to do extensive reading in their course of study
  4. Order book and journal material to enable you to do extensive reading in your area of teaching and research
  5. Pay invoices for library material which involve robust processing workflows which are praised by auditors.
  6. Purchase material (Non-Library) on your behalf, relating to your research or work with the University with approval from the dean. The library can secure discounts via suppliers
  1. Ensure staff are trained to ensure different resource types are purchased from the individual vendors with the best access and delivery times
  2. Provide seamless access to thousands of additional ebook titles via a Patron driven plan, meaning the library only pays for these books when you read or download them
  3. Ensuring Collection Profile with vendors is accurate. This involves breaking down the teaching and learning areas into library assigned subject numbers and defining bibliographic parameters.
  4. Collection assessment - ensuring that only up to date editions are held in the library. That minor collection movements are made when courses change location (subject to space requirements).
  5. When moving items to our storage facility on the Hawkesbury campus, ensure that any item that is the last copy in Australia is retained by the library
  1. Provide access to material via the SearchBox by ensuring metadata, including subject headings, is correct, enabling you to find content in the library search box.
  2. Catalogue new books so they reside with other books on the same topic
  3. Initiate a process where the library will reduce or remove access to older, out of date editions on the shelf
  4. Ensure the spine labels are consistently readable, and replace the fading or peeling labels on well used books.
  5. Fast track cataloguing an item which has a hold on it.
  6. Maintain the collection and replace high use or missing items
  1. Ensure materials are catalogued to international standards which enable access via standard access points. These are title, author, subject heading, dewey number and series title.
  2. The team leader ensures that once a requested item or book on your reading list is received into the library, that the book is catalogued and sent to the campus library within 3 days.
  3. Ensure consistency amongst authorities - so that when you click on an author name or subject heading, that results in the search box are the best possible.
  4. Ensure that items in our collection authored by WSU staff are permanently retained.
  5. Control what items in our collection are discoverable in the Libraries Australia Database.
Researcher
  1. Provide frontline support via chat, phone or email.
  2. Maintain the library’s FAQs to answer my frequently asked queries.
  3. Refer me to the most appropriate person to help with my research.
  1. Help me at a Service Desk to access a range of scholarly resources.
  2. Make sure I am happy, safe and comfortable.
  3. Refer me to the most appropriate person to help me with my research.
  1. Provide frontline support at my campus library.
  2. Provide basic support in the Study Smart Zone.
  3. Refer me to the most appropriate person to help with my research.
  1. Create a Research Metrics Report to support my grant application/promotion.
  2. Provide just-in-time, face-to-face support.
  3. Provide info searching and referencing support in the Study Smart Zone.
  4. Provide basic research support when my School Librarian is unavailable.
  1. Ensure that library staff are rostered at service points and available to me when I need them.
  2. Manage library spaces so that I can find a quiet place to read and write.
  3. Ensure that librarians are available in core hours to help with my research.
  4. Manage and report tech issues so that I can use a computer/printer/wi-fi.
  1. Provide one-on-one consultations to support all my research needs, including literature reviews, research methods, publication strategies, author profiles and research impact.
  2. Provide advice on uploading research to ResearchDirect.
  3. Advise on reporting research impact for grants and promotions.
  
  1. If you also teach - Compile a readings & resources list based on items in your learning guide.
  2. If you also teach - Ensure your Readings & Resources list is placed on your vUWS site.
  3. If you also teach - Add to your Reading list, scanned pdfs of chapters and journal articles not available in other electronic formats (subject to copyright).
  4. Troubleshoot Readings & Resources list issues
  1. Acquire non-WSU owned material for your teaching or research. This includes books, journal articles and other material. These will be sourced by prioritising lending libraries to ensure you get your requested item in the fastest time possible
  1. Provide access to online material via the SearchBox
  2. Add new content to the Subject guides to assist in your research
  3. Resolve any temporary access issues for online material
  4. Load Records into the Searchbox which originate from large package acquisitions
  5. Promote the use of databases in the SearchBox by using the Recommender service.
  6. Manage electronic subscription vendors to enable acquisition of the best resources for your units and ensure annual price rises are within an acceptable range.
  7. Report on cost per use for electronic material
  8. Ensure licensed material has multiple concurrent access, download and print features to enable the best user experience.
  9. Produce quality learning objects for your unit and grant access via the library website, the searchbox and your vUWS site. 
  10. Provide you with resources for "Study Break"

Provide advice on the following:

  1. Research Data Management
  2. Research Lifecycle
  3. Profile management, including ORCid and Google Scholar.
  4. Open Access Publishing, including Funder mandates
  5. Metrics – how to generate reports to measure the impact your research has made.
  6. Strategic publishing – how to ensure your research has the maximum professional and institutional impact.
  1. If you have graduated with WSU - provide open access to your Masters by Research or PhD Thesis, enabling discovery in ResearchDirect, Library SearchBox, Trove and Proquest Theses.
  2. Add your research publications to ResearchDirect.
  3. Let REDI know if your publication is reportable for ERA, allowing workload points to be added.
  4. Allocate a unique and persistent identifier to your research publication
  5. Assist in curating your data
  6. Upload your data to Research Data Australia.
  7. Upload your report to Analysis Policy and Observatory, if appropriate
  1. If you also teach - Will order items you place on your readings & resources list for your students to access, with a preference for electronic format.
  2. If you also teach - Will order copies of your prescribed textbook for your students' use (Please note, e-Textbooks are not always licensed for the library to purchase, and we cannot commit to buying a print textbook for each student in a unit)
  3. If you also teach -Order additional book and journal material to enable your students to do extensive reading in their course of study
  4. Order book and journal material to enable you to do extensive reading in your area of teaching and research
  5. Pay invoices for library material which involve robust processing workflows which are praised by auditors.
  6. Purchase material (Non-Library) on your behalf, relating to your research or work with the University with approval from the dean. The library can secure discounts via suppliers
  1. Ensure staff are trained to ensure different resource types are purchased from the individual vendors with the best access and delivery times
  2. Provide seamless access to thousands of additional ebook titles via a Patron driven plan, meaning the library only pays for these books when you read or download them
  3. Ensuring Collection Profile with vendors is accurate. This involves breaking down the teaching and learning areas into library assigned subject numbers and defining bibliographic parameters.
  4. Collection assessment - ensuring that only up to date editions are held in the library. That minor collection movements are made when courses change location (subject to space requirements).
  5. When moving items to our storage facility on the Hawkesbury campus, ensure that any item that is the last copy in Australia is retained by the library
  1. Provide access to material via the SearchBox by ensuring metadata, including subject headings, is correct, enabling you to find content in the library search box.
  2. Catalogue new books so they reside with other books on the same topic
  3. Initiate a process where the library will reduce or remove access to older, out of date editions on the shelf
  4. Ensure the spine labels are consistently readable, and replace the fading or peeling labels on well used books.
  5. Fast track cataloguing an item which has a hold on it.
  6. Maintain the collection and replace high use or missing items
  1. Ensure materials are catalogued to international standards which enable access via standard access points. These are title, author, subject heading, dewey number and series title.
  2. The team leader ensures that once a requested item or book on your reading list is received into the library, that the book is catalogued and sent to the campus library within 3 days.
  3. Ensure consistency amongst authorities - so that when you click on an author name or subject heading, that results in the search box are the best possible.
  4. Ensure that items in our collection authored by WSU staff are permanently retained.
  5. Control what items in our collection are discoverable in the Libraries Australia Database.
Professional Staff
  1. Provide frontline help on resources and services to support my work unit, via chat, email or phone.
  2. Refer me to the most appropriate person to help with my project.
  1. Help me at a Service Desk to access a range of project resources.
  2. Make sure I am happy, safe and comfortable.
  3. Refer me to the most appropriate person to support my work project.
  1. Provide frontline help on resources and services to support my work unit, in-person in my library.
  2. Refer me to the most appropriate person to help with my project.
  1. Provide frontline support for all my information and research needs.
  2. Support projects that require information literacy support.
  1. Ensure that library staff are rostered at service points and available to me when I need them.
  2. Manage library spaces so that I can find a quiet place to read and write.
  3. Ensure that librarians are available in core hours to help with my project.
  4. Manage and report tech issues so that I can use a computer/printer/wi-fi.
  1. Assist me with research projects or research data management.
  2. Represent the Library on collaborative projects for Schools.
  3. Provide advice on creating an online profile and improving my research impact.
  1. Provide online self-help resources so I can update my academic skills.
  
  1. Acquire non-WSU owned material for your work. This includes books, journal articles and other material. These will be sourced by prioritising lending libraries to ensure you get your requested item in the fastest time possible
  1. Provide access to online material via the SearchBox
  2. Add new content to the Subject guides to assist in your research
  3. Resolve any temporary access issues for online material
  4. Load Records into the Searchbox which originate from large package acquisitions
  5. Promote the use of databases in the SearchBox by using the Recommender service.
  6. Manage electronic subscription vendors to enable acquisition of the best resources for your units and ensure annual price rises are within an acceptable range.
  7. Report on cost per use for electronic material
  8. Ensure licensed material has multiple concurrent access, download and print features to enable the best user experience.
  9. Produce quality learning objects for your unit and grant access via the library website, the searchbox and your vUWS site.
  10. Provide you with resources for "Study Break"

Provide advice on the following:

  1. Research Data Management
  2. Research Lifecycle
  3. Profile management, including ORCid and Google Scholar.
  4. Open Access Publishing, including Funder mandates
  5. Metrics – how to generate reports to measure the impact your research has made.
  6. Strategic publishing – how to ensure your research has the maximum professional and institutional impact.
  1. If you have graduated with WSU - provide open access to your Masters by Research or PhD Thesis, enabling discovery in ResearchDirect, Library SearchBox, Trove and Proquest Theses.
  2. Add your research publications to ResearchDirect.
  3. Let REDI know if your publication is reportable for ERA, allowing workload points to be added.
  4. Allocate a unique and persistent identifier to your research publication
  5. Assist in curating your data
  6. Upload your data to Research Data Australia.
  7. Upload your report to Analysis Policy and Observatory, if appropriate
  1. Order book and journal material to enable you to do extensive reading
  2. Pay invoices for library material which involve robust processing workflows which are praised by auditors.
  3. Purchase material (Non-Library) on your behalf, relating to your research or work with the University with approval from your director. The library can secure discounts via suppliers
  1. Ensure staff are trained to ensure different resource types are purchased from the individual vendors with the best access and delivery times
  2. Provide seamless access to thousands of additional ebook titles via a Patron driven plan, meaning the library only pays for these books when you read or download them
  3. Ensuring Collection Profile with vendors is accurate. This involves breaking down the teaching and learning areas into library assigned subject numbers and defining bibliographic parameters.
  4. Collection assessment - ensuring that only up to date editions are held in the library. That minor collection movements are made when courses change location (subject to space requirements).
  5. When moving items to our storage facility on the Hawkesbury campus, ensure that any item that is the last copy in Australia is retained by the library
  1. Provide access to material via the SearchBox by ensuring metadata, including subject headings, is correct, enabling you to find content in the library search box.
  2. Catalogue new books so they reside with other books on the same topic
  3. Initiate a process where the library will reduce or remove access to older, out of date editions on the shelf
  4. Ensure the spine labels are consistently readable, and replace the fading or peeling labels on well used books.
  5. Fast track cataloguing an item which has a hold on it.
  6. Maintain the collection and replace high use or missing items
  1. Ensure materials are catalogued to international standards which enable access via standard access points. These are title, author, subject heading, dewey number and series title.
  2. The team leader ensures that once a requested item or book on your reading list is received into the library, that the book is catalogued and sent to the campus library within 3 days.
  3. Ensure consistency amongst authorities - so that when you click on an author name or subject heading, that results in the search box are the best possible.
  4. Ensure that items in our collection authored by WSU staff are permanently retained.
  5. Control what items in our collection are discoverable in the Libraries Australia Database.
Alumni
  1. Answer my questions about using the Library’s services and resources, via chat, phone or email.
  2. Create and maintain the Library’s FAQs that will help answer my queries.
  3. Help me find, use and cite the best resources for an assignment/exam.
  4. Provide me with just-in-time support on using the library’s databases.
  1. Help me at a Service Desk to borrow books, pay fines and print/copy/scan stuff.
  2. Answer basic questions I have about searching for or using library resources.
  3. Provide frontline support in using vUWS & Turnitin.
  4. Make sure I’m happy, safe and comfortable, and that everything in the library is working as it should.
  5. Host #LibraryBrainBreaks as a fun break from study.
  1. Help me in my campus library to become an expert information user.
  2. Deliver workshops and tutorials to help me build my info literacy skills.
  3. Help me access and use my unit reading list.
  4. Help me find, use and cite the best resources in the Study Smart Zone.
  5. Provide some guidance on the use of Turnitin.
  1. Provide in-class, tutorial, workshop and face-to-face support to find and use the best resources.
  2. Develop learning objects that help me to critically evaluate info sources.
  3. Help me access and use my unit reading list.
  4. Provide just-in-time referencing support in the Study Smart Zone.
  5. Provide guidance in how to use vUWS/Turnitin.
  1. Ensure that library staff are rostered at service points and available to me when I need them.
  2. Manage library spaces so that I can study and meet with other students in a safe learning commons.
  3. Make sure that high-use and general books are shelved in a timely way.
  4. Manage and report tech issues so that I can use a computer/printer/wi-fi.
  1. Work with my School to ensure I gain the information literacy skills I need to succeed.
  2. Ensure that the Library collects the resources I need for my studies.
  3. Help me access and use my unit reading list.
  4. Help me find, use and cite the best resources for my assignment.
  5. Provide guidance in how to use Turnitin.
  1. Work with my School to ensure that I gain the academic literacy skills I need to succeed at uni.
  2. Create learning resources in vUWS and on the web to help me with scholarly writing and reading skills.
  3. Develop resources to help me understand academic integrity and how to avoid plagiarism.
  4. Work with librarians to scaffold skills in courses.
  
  1. Alumni are not eligible for this service. If there is a title you require for your studies and cannot locate in the SearchBox, please use the following form: Request Books and Audio
  1. Provide access to online material via the SearchBox
  2. Add new content to the Subject guides to assist in your research
  3. Resolve any temporary access issues for online material
  4. Load Records into the Searchbox which originate from large package acquisitions
  5. Promote the use of databases in the SearchBox by using the Recommender service.
  6. Manage electronic subscription vendors to enable acquisition of the best resources for your units and ensure annual price rises are within an acceptable range.
  7. Report on cost per use for electronic material
  8. Ensure licensed material has multiple concurrent access, download and print features to enable the best user experience.
  9. Produce quality learning objects for your unit and grant access via the library website, the searchbox and your vUWS site.
  10. Provide you with resources for "Study Break"
  1. Provide comprehensive webpages giving information on Research and publishing.
  1. Provide you with access to Western Research and Theses in ResearchDirect.
  1. Order additional book and journal material to enable you to do extensive reading in your course of study
  2. Pay invoices for library material which involve robust processing workflows which are praised by auditors.
  1. Ensure staff are trained to ensure different resource types are purchased from the individual vendors with the best access and delivery times
  2. Provide seamless access to thousands of additional ebook titles via a Patron driven plan, meaning the library only pays for these books when you read or download them
  3. Ensuring Collection Profile with vendors is accurate. This involves breaking down the teaching and learning areas into library assigned subject numbers and defining bibliographic parameters.
  4. Collection assessment - ensuring that only up to date editions are held in the library. That minor collection movements are made when courses change location (subject to space requirements).
  5. When moving items to our storage facility on the Hawkesbury campus, ensure that any item that is the last copy in Australia is retained by the library
  1. Provide access to material via the SearchBox by ensuring metadata, including subject headings, is correct, enabling you to find content in the library search box.
  2. Catalogue new books so they reside with other books on the same topic
  3. Initiate a process where the library will reduce or remove access to older, out of date editions on the shelf
  4. Ensure the spine labels are consistently readable, and replace the fading or peeling labels on well used books.
  5. Fast track cataloguing an item which has a hold on it.
  6. Maintain the collection and replace high use or missing items
  1. Ensure materials are catalogued to international standards which enable access via standard access points. These are title, author, subject heading, dewey number and series title.
  2. The team leader ensures that once a requested item or book on a reading list is received into the library, that the book is catalogued and sent to the campus library within 3 days.
  3. Ensure consistency amongst authorities - so that when you click on an author name or subject heading, that results in the search box are the best possible.
  4. Ensure that items in our collection authored by WSU staff are permanently retained.
  5. Control what items in our collection are discoverable in the Libraries Australia Database.
Other users (ULANZ)
  1. Answer my questions about using the Library’s services and resources, via chat, phone or email.
  2. Create and maintain the Library’s FAQs that will help answer my queries.
  3. Help me find, use and cite the best resources for an assignment/exam.
  4. Provide me with just-in-time support on using the library’s databases.
  1. Help me at a Service Desk to borrow books, pay fines and print/copy/scan stuff.
  2. Answer basic questions I have about searching for or using library resources.
  3. Provide frontline support in using vUWS & Turnitin.
  4. Make sure I’m happy, safe and comfortable, and that everything in the library is working as it should.
  5. Host #LibraryBrainBreaks as a fun break from study.
  1. Help me in my campus library to become an expert information user.
  2. Deliver workshops and tutorials to help me build my info literacy skills.
  3. Help me access and use my unit reading list.
  4. Help me find, use and cite the best resources in the Study Smart Zone.
  5. Provide some guidance on the use of Turnitin.
  1. Provide in-class, tutorial, workshop and face-to-face support to find and use the best resources.
  2. Develop learning objects that help me to critically evaluate info sources.
  3. Help me access and use my unit reading list.
  4. Provide just-in-time referencing support in the Study Smart Zone.
  5. Provide guidance in how to use vUWS/Turnitin.
  1. Ensure that library staff are rostered at service points and available to me when I need them.
  2. Manage library spaces so that I can study and meet with other students in a safe learning commons.
  3. Make sure that high-use and general books are shelved in a timely way.
  4. Manage and report tech issues so that I can use a computer/printer/wi-fi.
  1. Work with my School to ensure I gain the information literacy skills I need to succeed.
  2. Ensure that the Library collects the resources I need for my studies.
  3. Help me access and use my unit reading list.
  4. Help me find, use and cite the best resources for my assignment.
  5. Provide guidance in how to use Turnitin.
  1. Work with my School to ensure that I gain the academic literacy skills I need to succeed at uni.
  2. Create learning resources in vUWS and on the web to help me with scholarly writing and reading skills.
  3. Develop resources to help me understand academic integrity and how to avoid plagiarism.
  4. Work with librarians to scaffold skills in courses.
  
  1. ULANZ are not eligible for this service. If there is a title you require for your studies and cannot locate in the SearchBox, please use the following form: Request Books and Audio
  1. Provide access to online material via the SearchBox
  2. Add new content to the Subject guides to assist in your research
  3. Resolve any temporary access issues for online material
  4. Load Records into the Searchbox which originate from large package acquisitions
  5. Promote the use of databases in the SearchBox by using the Recommender service.
  6. Manage electronic subscription vendors to enable acquisition of the best resources for your units and ensure annual price rises are within an acceptable range.
  7. Report on cost per use for electronic material
  8. Ensure licensed material has multiple concurrent access, download and print features to enable the best user experience.
  9. Produce quality learning objects for your unit and grant access via the library website, the searchbox and your vUWS site.
  10. Provide you with resources for "Study Break"
  1. Provide comprehensive webpages giving information on Research and publishing.
  1. Provide you with access to Western Research and Theses in ResearchDirect.
  1. Order additional book and journal material to enable you to do extensive reading in your course of study
  2. Pay invoices for library material which involve robust processing workflows which are praised by auditors.
  1. Ensure staff are trained to ensure different resource types are purchased from the individual vendors with the best access and delivery times
  2. Provide seamless access to thousands of additional ebook titles via a Patron driven plan, meaning the library only pays for these books when you read or download them
  3. Ensuring Collection Profile with vendors is accurate. This involves breaking down the teaching and learning areas into library assigned subject numbers and defining bibliographic parameters.
  4. Collection assessment - ensuring that only up to date editions are held in the library. That minor collection movements are made when courses change location (subject to space requirements).
  5. When moving items to our storage facility on the Hawkesbury campus, ensure that any item that is the last copy in Australia is retained by the library
  1. Provide access to material via the SearchBox by ensuring metadata, including subject headings, is correct, enabling you to find content in the library search box.
  2. Catalogue new books so they reside with other books on the same topic
  3. Initiate a process where the library will reduce or remove access to older, out of date editions on the shelf
  4. Ensure the spine labels are consistently readable, and replace the fading or peeling labels on well used books.
  5. Fast track cataloguing an item which has a hold on it.
  6. Maintain the collection and replace high use or missing items
  1. Ensure materials are catalogued to international standards which enable access via standard access points. These are title, author, subject heading, dewey number and series title.
  2. The team leader ensures that once a requested item or book on a reading list is received into the library, that the book is catalogued and sent to the campus library within 3 days.
  3. Ensure consistency amongst authorities - so that when you click on an author name or subject heading, that results in the search box are the best possible.
  4. Ensure that items in our collection authored by WSU staff are permanently retained.
  5. Control what items in our collection are discoverable in the Libraries Australia Database.
Library Service Catalogue