How I support academic staff and students

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I wrote this in April 2019 for an NZQA monitor who was visitng us to read.  It  describes quite well what I do.


NZTC Library Support for Students and Staff


NZTC Library provides information resources and support services to all students as well as academic staff.  Another objective of the library is to advance scholarship by ensuring the collection remains current and by providing access to the best available resources.

General student support
The library supports the learning needs of students by:
·         Providing library tours and orientations
·         Delivering tutorials on using NZTC Library, research databases and eBooks
·         Maintaining online guides to using the resources and library services
·         Helping students to conduct effective searches in EBSCO
·         Recommending appropriate textbooks to borrow for study & assessments
·         Helping students to source articles from course reading lists
·         Advising on citing and referencing sources in APA 6th style

Support for Masters’ students
The library supports Masters’ students by:
·         Delivering tutorials on using NZTC Library, research databases and eBooks
·         Assisting with literature searches

Supporting academic staff
The library supports academic staff by:
·         Processing requests from staff to purchase new books, eBooks or journals
·         Sourcing books for book reviews for He Kupu
·         Assisting with literature searches for study, presentations and writing articles for He Kupu
·         Responding to queries about copyright, for example re-using articles in course guides
·         Support with PBRF and using Google Scholar for citation analysis

Advancing scholarship
The library advances scholarship by:
·         Trialling academic databases and eBook collections with a view to purchase to add to existing online resources
·   Promoting resources and services to students, e.g. Google Scholar with article-level links to subscription full text
·         Ensuring the collection is current is current by constantly adding new books and eBooks
·         Providing free online access to NZTC Master’s theses at DigtialNZ’s shared repository

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