Undergraduate students
Honours and Postgraduate students
Undergraduate students
Orientation
The HSS Library together with the Business Library offer orientation sessions for the Reid Library at the beginning of each semester. The 45 minute sessions include a short tour of the Library, an explanation of Library services and a hands-on session in the Library Training Room where students are introduced to the Library catalogue.
Students can sign up for these sessions at the Reid Information Centre on the first floor of the Reid Library in the first week of each semester.
IRIS
All students (including those in upper level units) who are newly enrolled in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences will be automatically enrolled in IRIS, or Introductory Research and Information Skills (COMM 2000).
The result of a close collaboration by the Faculty and the HSS Library, IRIS is a zero point unit within the Faculty. From 2007, students must complete IRIS within their first semester of enrolment.
IRIS is an introductory program that will provide beginning students with a foundation in generic research skills so that they can locate, evaluate and effectively use information. It provides a basis for the further development of information literacy skills in discipline-specific contexts in upper level units.
After completing IRIS students will be able to:
- Define an essay topic so that they can recognise a need for information and determine the nature and extent of the information required.
- Find and select resources effectively and efficiently.
- Evaluate resources, critically evaluate information and the information seeking process.
- Organise, manage and present information.
Upper level units
The HSS Library offer individual classes for all upper level units. These are tailored to the specific requirements of unit coordinators and can be conducted in a variety of formats. They can range from a short presentation as part of a normal lecture, a 45 minute session in tutorials, online content including research skills activities or bibliographic exercises designed for specific essay topics.
Because many upper level students will have completed IRIS, these classes can be more subject focused and introduce more advanced skills such as searching subject specific databases.
Contact the librarians in the HSS Library if you would like to include an information literacy skills component in any of your units.
Honours and Postgraduate students
Advanced research skills
The HSS Library provides ‘Advanced Research Skills’ classes for all Faculty Disciplines. These classes introduce students to:
- The Library services available to Honours students
- The advanced research skills required for Honours
- The specialist databases for researchers
- How to find theses
- Citation searching
EndNote
‘Introduction to EndNote’ classes are offered throughout the year. Participants will learn how to:
- Create an EndNote library
- Add references to a library, both manually and from online databases
- Manage references in a library
- Insert in-text citations into a Word document in a nominated style
- Create a bibliography in a nominated style
The classes are held in the Reid Library Training Room and are normally 1.5 hours. They are advertised on the HSS/Scholars email list. Interested staff and students can contact HSS Information Services for more information and to register.
Individual classes can be organised for specific groups.
Aboriginal Orientation Students
Orientation classes are conducted for Aboriginal Orientation students at the beginning of both semesters. These introduce students to:
- The location of the main services available in the Reid Library
- The borrowing procedures for Reserve and Main collection
- The Library Web site
- How to find their borrowing record, and request an item
- InfoPathways, and how to log-in
- Searching the library catalogue by author, title and keyword
- Locating a book and a journal in the library using the library catalogue.
- Databases - accessing and searching (Informit)
- IRIS
“On demand” classes
The Librarians in the HSS Library will develop information literacy programs to meet your individual requirements.
