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Services for teaching

The Library aims to support teaching and learning by:

  • building sustainable resources and digital infrastructure to support expanding modes of teaching, learning, research and scholarly communication
  • expanding and strengthening the Library’s educational impact through collaborative partnerships.

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Faculty librarians

Faculty librarians are key team members for achieving these goals. They facilitate communication between the Library and each Faculty to match services and resources to academic requirements. 

Your faculty librarian can also provide support and training on information skills; assistance locating resources for teaching; advice on embedding resources and information skills into iLearn subject sites. Just ask if you would like them to visit your class.

Michelle Chitts

Bond University College

Emmy Peterson

Health Sciences and Medicine

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Tiffany Mitchell

Bond Business School Librarian

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Ian Edwards

Manager, Law Library

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Daniel Walker

Law Faculty Librarian

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Bronwyn Linthwaite

Society & Design Faculty Librarian

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Subject resources

Resource Lists

To meet copyright and licensing obligations, book chapters and journal articles must be managed by the Library rather than uploaded directly to iLearn. The Library provides a Resource List service that plugs in directly to your subject sites in iLearn.

Resource Lists are a consistent way for students to access and engage with the resources you recommend to them, including textbooks, videos, reports, articles and website links. 

Online and streaming video content can be added to your resource lists including licensed Library content as well as video sourced from online sites such as Vimeo and Youtube.

Check out these online guides to using the system.

Library guide
Library guide

More subject resource services

  • Physical Reserve

    The Reserve Collections in the Main and Law libraries contain hard copies of materials that are in high-demand to support teaching programs. Items are available to students on short loans of 3 hours. Usually, one copy of textbooks or DVDs is placed in the Reserve Collection with additional copies on 7-day loan.

    • Tag the citation in your resource list with "Add to Course Reserve". If you are not using a resource list contact your Faculty Librarian.

    You can check in Library Search or your Resource List to confirm the availability of items in the reserve collection.

    E-Reserve

    In your resource list, you can easily see if the Library already has access to full-text articles or ebooks. When we don't have licensed content for a citation, the Library can digitise one chapter or article, or make 10% of a work available at any one time on behalf of the whole University. When permission has been obtained from the copyright holder, these can also be managed by the Library. In your resource list:

    • Add the citation details
    • Upload a pdf if you already have a copy
    • Tag the citation with "Scan to eReserve"
    • Links to digitised content will be available to students within the resource list

    The Resource List Guide for educators includes full details and videos on how to use the service.

    If you have not used the Resource List service before, or have other specific requirements, contact your faculty librarian. They can also help identify alternative resources, when copyright prevents digitisation.

    You do not need to submit a purchase suggestion for class resources - just add them to the resource list as prescribed or recommended resources.

  • If you have any requests for a resource required in an accessible format, please contact us.

    Antoinette Cass, Manager Scholarly Publishing & Copyright
    [email protected]
    +61 7 5595 1523

  • Faculty Librarians develop guides on request to provide support for your subjects. They work in collaboration with academic staff to ensure the guides cover the needs of students. Ideas for guides to support teachers as well as students are welcome.

    Visit library research guides

Physical Reserve

The Reserve Collections in the Main and Law libraries contain hard copies of materials that are in high-demand to support teaching programs. Items are available to students on short loans of 3 hours. Usually, one copy of textbooks or DVDs is placed in the Reserve Collection with additional copies on 7-day loan.

  • Tag the citation in your resource list with "Add to Course Reserve". If you are not using a resource list contact your Faculty Librarian.

You can check in Library Search or your Resource List to confirm the availability of items in the reserve collection.

E-Reserve

In your resource list, you can easily see if the Library already has access to full-text articles or ebooks. When we don't have licensed content for a citation, the Library can digitise one chapter or article, or make 10% of a work available at any one time on behalf of the whole University. When permission has been obtained from the copyright holder, these can also be managed by the Library. In your resource list:

  • Add the citation details
  • Upload a pdf if you already have a copy
  • Tag the citation with "Scan to eReserve"
  • Links to digitised content will be available to students within the resource list

The Resource List Guide for educators includes full details and videos on how to use the service.

If you have not used the Resource List service before, or have other specific requirements, contact your faculty librarian. They can also help identify alternative resources, when copyright prevents digitisation.

You do not need to submit a purchase suggestion for class resources - just add them to the resource list as prescribed or recommended resources.

Information skills

Faculty librarians can help your students develop their information skills through classroom visits, appointments or online courses.

Instruction

The Library aims to enhance lifelong learning and contribute to the development of a unique Bond graduate through the teaching of information skills both face to face and hands-on. The faculty librarians work with academic staff developing course materials to embed information literacy in to the curriculum. The Library provides:

  • hands-on training in information search strategies and tools
  • course-integrated, subject-specific instruction based on learning outcomes

Online courses

The Library has developed self-paced online courses that students can complete and evidence in Beyond Bond. You are also welcome to complete them yourself, or recommend them to your students.

These courses cover digital literacy, information and academic skills.

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Access to information resources

The Library has hundreds of thousands of titles either in the collection or in subscription databases. If we don't have something we aim to make it simple for you to request items.

Look for the Get it for me options in Library Search.

Requesting books and articles

Click & collect requests for Library items, and how to request books, chapters, or journal articles from other libraries.

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Highly recommended

Easy full text access

We know your workflows won't always start at Library Search. LibKey Nomad sits in your browser for instant PDF downloads of Library resources via scholarly sites.

Use on personal devices is allowed.

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Essential

Library Search

Search for items in the Libraries as well as hundreds of thousands of online journal & news articles.

Sign in to request resources, track your loaned items, monitor progress on requests, save searches and results for future use.

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Highly recommended

Self service loans

Install the Bond Library Self-Service Loans app to borrow items directly at the shelves.

iOS & Android

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Recommend a resource for the Library to purchase

We highly value the input of Bond educators to ensure that the Library's resources stay relevant and focused on Faculty and School needs.

If a resource is important to your teaching, professional development or research please recommend it.

Books and audiovisual materials

Smaller one-off purchases can generally be made immediately based on an academic's recommendation, subject to availability. If you can't find the resource in Library Search, you can use this blank request form.

Suggest a purchase

Journals and databases

New subscriptions are carefully considered based on a number of criteria including demand from staff and students, relevance to teaching, learning and research, and cost. 

Library Services maintains a balance of subscriptions that best meet the academic needs of the University. Subscriptions require an ongoing financial commitment from limited funds, amongst competing resources. 

It is helpful to indicate the subject(s) or program(s) this resource will support, or the reason you feel this resource would benefit teaching, learning or research at Bond, when recommending a purchase.

Recommend to your faculty librarian