From the Campuses of Monash University
Monash University Libraries Home Pages on the World Wide Web
Reading Lists and Reserve Requests for 1996
One-Stop Document Delivery
Rare Books Exhibition : French Fiction
The Laura & Israel Kipen Judaica Collection
AARNet and the Internet
Renew-It-Yourself on the Internet
Branch libraries have now set up their own World Wide Web pages. These pages offer a variety of valuable information for the specific needs of the Monash community. In this issue of Library News we feature the pages of Gippsland, Caulfield and Peninsula. Other branch pages will be featured in coming issues.
Caulfield Campus Library
homepage: http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/caulfield/
Our homepage provides information on library services and resources available for subjects taught at the Caulfield Campus.
This page lists Library staff, including subject librarians, and provides email links to staff and to the reference service. Links are also provided to Internet sites, where staff have found useful subject specific resources.
Peninsula Campus Library
homepage:http://www-peninsula.cc.monash.edu.au/depts/ library/index.htm
Our page reflects the diverse nature of the library's resources and services. Included are collections unique to us, such as musical instruments and models available for loan. Electronic and print resources supporting local courses are highlighted.
Future developments will enable greater access to the Internet by users of the Library's public access workstation. We have established links from academic disciplines taught at Peninsula to reading lists and other important information.
Gippsland Campus Library
homepage: http://www-mugc.cc.monash.edu.au/glib-
Features include:
- Gippsland Campus in a rural setting located on a map of Victoria
- A map of the campus with the Library location clearly indicated.
- The Off-Campus Guide for Distance Education Students.
- GILBERT, the GIppsland LiBrary Electronic Research Tool.
- Quick guide to using GILBERT.
- Links to recommended communications software for accessing GILBERT.
- Opening hours for weekend schools, semester, and semester breaks.
Coming soon:
Forms which will enable Distance Education students to electronically request library resources and a link to the Open Learning Library Guide.
Other branch library homepages.
These may be accessed through the Monash Library Homepage at:
and will be featured in Library News in early 1996
Reading Lists - Caulfield/Peninsula
If you teach at either Caulfield or Peninsula would you please send reading lists for 1996 to the Caulfield/Peninsula Library as soon as possible. Checking all lists for new and missing items takes time. It also takes about 2 months from ordering a new item to making it available for loan on the library shelves. If the collection is to be ready for use at the start of first semester, we would appreciate your assistance in providing reading lists now. It would also be helpful if you would indicate the number of students expected in 1996 at the top of the list.
Please send Caulfield lists to Frances O'Brien at Caulfield campus library and Peninsula lists to Joyce Jenkin at Peninsula campus library. If you have queries about ordering new items, please contact your subject librarian.
Reserve Requests - Caulfield/Peninsula
Caulfield/Peninsula Branch Lending Services section requests early submission of material to be places on Reserve for 1st Semester 1996.
Academics are advised that they need to provide the photocopied material to Lending Services, where it will be packaged appropriately.
To ensure that high demand material is available to a large number of students, Reserve items are issued on 2-hour loan, for use within the library.
Reserve information sheets and request forms are available from both Caulfield and Peninsula campus libraries.
To ensure that Reserve material will be available to students for the beginning of first semester 1996, requests should be submitted by 12 January 1996.
For more information, contact the Reserve section, Lending services at Caulfield on ext. 32299 or Peninsula on ext. 44254.
Reading Lists & Reserve Requests - Other Libraries
At the Clayton Campus the following library staff will be happy to help with Reading Lists and Reserve items:
Biomed- Joyce Key x52636
H&SS- Yasmin Wimalasena x52696
Hargrave- Kim Arndell x52651
Law- Dawn Goldberg x51585
and at Gippsland Campus Library, Kay Steel on 26536 will be also happy to help.
This is a reminder to Monash staff and postgraduate students that they may now choose to submit all document delivery requests (i.e interlibrary loan, intercampus loan and hospital loans) via the one electronic request form. To take advantage of this facility eligible users should first complete a registration form which includes a copyright declaration required by law.
Registration forms may be had from any Monash branch library, from the DocDel Home Page on the web server, or by ringing x52679. Once the registration process has been completed users will be informed that they may begin using the new electronic format. All information on the new Document Delivery Services (including other options for submitting requests) may be reached on the web server:
http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/ docdel/
where there is also a link to the electronic request form.
For further information send an email message to:
docdel@lib.monash.edu.au
or ring Judith Greenaway on x54800
The current exhibition in the Rare Books Exhibition area on the 1st floor in the Information Services Building (ISB) is entitled "French Fiction" and deals with the genre from the early romances to the Histoire d'O.
Viewing the exhibition gives you the opportunity to see exactly what the "French novel" has looked like over the years, as almost all the works on display are in the original bindings.
The subject matter ranges from the mildly salacious to collections of imaginary voyages and fairy stories. Many have finely engraved illustrations.
Among the lesser-known works we find Cyrano de Bergerac's Voyage to the Moon, in an English translation of 1754, and Mercier's L'An Deux Mille Quatre Cent Quarante, a novel set in the future, in the year 2440, but written in 1771.
Also on display is a collection of works by Paul Wenz, a French novelist who spent most of his life in Forbes in outback New South Wales. Many of his works are set in Australia, but very few have been translated.
The exhibition will run until 4 March 1996. There is a free catalogue describing the items on display.
For more information contact Richard Overell, Rare Books Librarian x52689
email: richard.overell@lib.monash.edu.au
The Laura and Israel Kipen Judaica Collection supports courses in Jewish Studies offered by the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation at Monash University. Strengths of the Collection are in pre-modern and modern Jewish history, and contemporary Jewish literature. Books in the Collection are available for loan to Monash staff and students during normal Library hours. The Collection is located in the Information Services Building.
The Laura and Israel Kipen Judaica Collection also houses the Giligich Yiddish collection, which consists of Yiddish books in a wide range of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction. The books in the Giligich Yiddish Collection are not available for loan.
Please direct any enquiries to Grace Giannini, Subject Librarian, Humanities and Social Sciences Library x52659, or email: Grace.Giannini@lib.monash.edu.au
AARNet is the Australian Academic Research Network, established in 1989 to promote closer cooperation between Australian researchers and easer communication with colleagues overseas. AARNet is Australia's gateway to the Internet.
The Internet is an International Network which includes many national networks similar to AARNet, from around the world. It was initially developed as part of the United States defence strategy in 1969, and now has in excess of 30 million users worldwide.
The Internet offers a wide range of services. The most common, and probably the starting point for most users, is electronic mail ("email"). An extension of email is electronic conferencing via discussion lists, newsgroups and bulletin boards. These services provide unparalleled opportunities for peer networking, putting people in touch with thousands of other network users worldwide who share their professional or personal interests.
Other services are based around access to information. Via the network, it is possible to log into research databases and library catalogues anywhere in the world (this capability is know as "telnet"), and to transfer files between computers anywhere in the world (known as File Transfer Protocol , or FTP). From their office, or their home, an Internet user can conduct complex literature searches on collaborative projects with colleagues, and so on. A user can also use the Internet to view pictures, animation, and video, and to hear sounds, providing their workstation is configured to do these things.
Around the world, people are using the Internet for research, for teaching, for discussion of work related and personal topics, for shopping and other consumer services, as well as for general information. There are many examples world wide where academics are using the Internet for distributing information to students, as well as for their own research purposes. Use of the Internet is widespread from primary through tertiary levels of education, and in many workplace environments.
Monash University Library conducts regular training sessions on how to use the Internet in practical, hands-on workshops, tailored to the interests of your subject areas. Contact your subject Librarian for more details, or to arrange a workshop for your Faculty or Department.
Library loans can be renewed via the Internet address:
http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/~jmc/wwwlib
At this address you need to scroll down to Patron Details and complete the details. The items on loan will be listed one by one, and there is an option to "renew this book".
Renewals can also still be made via Sesame2 by using the REN command, your barcode number, surname, and the item numbers.
Comments to Angela Prior
(Last updated 26/3/96)