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Department of Psychology1. The departmentThe Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences (www.med.monash.edu.au/) provides undergraduate and postgraduate courses in many of the health sciences - medicine, nursing, public health, health services management, radiography and medical imaging, ambulance and paramedic studies, dietetics and nutrition, psychology and social work, on four university campuses, and has a major commitment to biological and biomedical science and biotechnology. Some departments of the faculty are involved in undergraduate teaching for the Faculty of Science (eg Immunology), and supervision of Faculty of Science postgraduate students. The faculty has about 1,200 teaching and research staff and a student enrolment of more than 6,000 students (undergraduate and postgraduate) distributed across a number of campuses in Melbourne, rural Victoria and overseas. In addition, more than 1,000 honorary staff in affiliated hospitals, teaching practices and research institutes contribute to the faculty's teaching programs. The major teaching hospitals of the faculty are the Monash Medical Centre, Box Hill Hospital and The Alfred Hospital. The School of Rural Health, established in 2001, has nodes located in Mildura, Bendigo, Gippsland (Traralgon and Warragul) and East Gippsland (Bairnsdale and Sale), and offices at Moe and on the Clayton Campus. There are seven schools within the faculty. The Department of Psychology (www.med.monash.edu.au/psych/) offers undergraduate psychology courses at the Caulfield, Clayton and Gippsland campuses, with the first two years also available at the Berwick campus. Service teaching only of psychology in nursing, education and business courses is available on the Peninsula campus. Postgraduate courses are available at the Clayton, Caulfield and Gippsland campuses. The department has 40 teaching staff and a teaching load of 730 EFTSU, of whom approximately 120 students are postgraduate. Early of 2001, the Department of Psychology and the Department of Psychological Medicine (Faculty of Medicine) will combine to form a joint School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine. On the Gippsland campus, the School is located administratively within the School of Humanities, Communication and Social Sciences (Faculty of Arts). Major research interests of the department include sensory processes and perception, cognitive processes, neuropsychology, attention and movement disorders, physiological substrates and correlates of behaviour, biochemistry of memory, sound localisation, chronobiology, psycholinguistics, work recognition and reading acquisition, human information processing and performance, human factors, engineering psychology and task design, skilled performance, analysis of human skill, applied experimental psychology, road user behaviour, animal and human learning, human development, health psychology, vocational psychology, counselling, social psychology, play and aggression in children, community psychology, occupational, industrial, personnel and organisational psychology, sport psychology, forensic psychology, psychology of aging, stress management, helplessness and depression, behaviour medicine. 2. General policy statementThe Collection Development Policy covers printed books and journals, electronic resources, multimedia and any other formats acquired for the Library's collection. The Policy is regularly monitored to ensure that the selection and acquisition of new resources supports the teaching and research needs of the faculties and their departments. While every effort is made to meet known information needs some gaps in the collection may develop which need attention, and suggestions to address them are welcome. This may be done through liaison with library staff or, for individual titles, using the recommendation form at lib.monash.edu.au/forms/acquisition-request.doc To ensure that the library provides collection materials to support new courses and subjects, completion of a Library Impact Statement lib.monash.edu.au/forms/impact.doc is required. When establishing new research directions staff are encouraged to liaise with the library about the provision of supporting information resources. All titles listed as prescribed or recommended reading for teaching subjects are acquired as high priority and in multiple copies depending on student enrolment numbers. This is particularly necessary for undergraduate students, who need access to adequate resources on their home campus. Electronic versions of these texts are also provided where possible, so that access is more readily available regardless of location and number of copies held. The inter-campus loan and photocopy services for undergraduates further support the needs of those students. However, the library cannot acquire every item that could conceivably be needed by Monash staff or students. The reciprocal borrowing scheme enables Monash library users to borrow from other university libraries. Post-graduates and staff may also use the document delivery service to obtain books and articles from other libraries in Australia and overseas. 3. The library's collectiona. LocationMaterial purchased for the Department of Psychology is located predominantly in the Hargrave-Andrew Library on the Clayton campus, as well as in the Caulfield, Gippsland and Berwick libraries. Resources in the areas of psychiatry, mental disorders and therapies may also be located in the libraries of the affiliated hospitals (eg Monash Medical Centre). The Faculty of Education also purchases significant amounts of material in the area of child psychology, developmental psychology (with special emphasis on learning disabilities and special needs), educational psychology and counselling, and these are located in the Matheson Library on the Clayton campus, with smaller collections in the Peninsula and Gippsland libraries. The Matheson Library collection also supports higher degree courses in counselling offered by the Faculty of Education. Works on psychoanalysis are also collected in this branch, particularly those which deal with literary, social, critical and feminist theory in support of a range of Schools in the Faculty of Arts. The Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology (Faculty of Arts) purchases relevant material in the area of criminology that is located in the Matheson Library and the Caulfield Library. The Department of Management (Faculty of Business and Economics) purchases material in the area of organisational/industrial psychology and this is located in the Matheson, Berwick, Caulfield, Peninsula and Gippsland libraries. The School of Political and Social Inquiry offers a minor study in Behavioural Studies on the Caulfield campus, and acquires material in the areas of personality, social psychology and psychoanalysis. b. LanguageGenerally only material in the English language is acquired. c. Classification used.The library's collection relevant to the Department of Psychology is classified using the Dewey Decimal Classification. d. Formats.While no format is excluded, the majority of the collection consists of monographs and serials, both print and electronic. There is also a small collection of videorecordings. e. Size of the collectionNumber of print serial titles received : The department subscribes to almost 200 titles, with the majority of these held in the Hargrave-Andrew and Caulfield libraries. Approximately 20 titles are held in each of the Gippsland and Peninsula libraries. f. Significant electronic resourcesThe library is purchasing increased numbers of resources in electronic format, including networked or internet databases, fulltext resources, including suites of electronic journals, and CD-ROM databases that are only accessible within a particular Branch library. As a result, an increasing proportion of the budget for library material for the Faculty of Science is spent on these resources. These include Indexing and abstracting services
Fulltext databases / electronic journal suites
Subject gateways
75% of the library materials budget for the Faculty of Science is spent on serials, and 6.5% on electronic resources. g. Coverage of the collectionThe library resources acquired for the department cover in general all areas of the Dewey Decimal Classification in the 150s, psychology, as well as sociology, mental health and physiology. The main areas of collecting for the Department of Psychology are detailed below
Other faculties and departments also collect in the area of psychology and these are noted below where appropriate. The strengths of the collection are as follows: The Hargrave-Andrew Library is strong in psychophysiology, neuropsychology and cognitive psychology, the Matheson Library is strong in developmental psychology (particularly learning disabilities and special needs), educational psychology, ethics and social psychology (collected for the faculties of Education and Arts), the Caulfield and Peninsula libraries are strong in organisational/industrial psychology (also collected for the Faculty of Business and Economics) and social psychology, the Gippsland Library is strong in social psychology and developmental psychology. There is also a strong collection in child and adolescent psychiatry, mental disorders and psychotherapy at the Monash Medical Centre Library, Clayton. The collection in the areas of neuroscience is also being developed. Although the Centre for Neuroscience is part of the Faculty of Medicine, many of the staff in the Centre are from the Department of Psychology. The Gippsland book and hardcopy serial collections are sufficient to support teaching at an undergraduate level. They are not adequate for research purposes, nor are there sufficient fulltext electronic journals to support research. Electronic databases and indexes are available across campuses and when combined with the document delivery service available to academic staff and postgraduate students are adequate (but not ideal) for research purposes when the material held at other campuses is at a research level. The size of the book collection available to support the School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine on the Gippsland campus is estimated to be 15,000 volumes. 4. Other significant Monash collections or resourcesMicroform collection: Within the microform collection housed in the Matheson Library on the Clayton campus is the Published work of Wilhelm Reich (7 reels) Collections Table(T = teaching level, R = research level)
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