Monthly Archives: January 2009

Meeting with your tutors? Why not ask your librarian along?

Posted on January 29, 2009 by

A lecturer asked me along recently to a meeting with sessional tutors. This was a great way for me to meet these staff members and give them information and answer questions about library services and resources. I spent just 15 mins … Continue reading →

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New subscription to Scopus

Posted on January 28, 2009 by

I mentioned last year our trial of Scopus. As announced in the latest RMIT Update we now have this resource: Our acquisition of Scopus is a win for researchers. Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature … Continue reading →

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Career education and development

Posted on January 23, 2009 by

          We have just created a new online subject guide for Career education and development. As with all the education guides we are very happy to receive suggestions about items to be included.

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Childcare in crisis

Posted on January 21, 2009 by

Berenice Nyland form RMIT University’s School of Education recently featured in a discussion and talkback on the childcare crisis on RRR’s Wax Lyrical program.  She also has a blog on Openforum.com.au where she has written a piece called “Childcare in crisis … Continue reading →

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Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year 2008

Posted on January 13, 2009 by

Macquarie Dictionary is looking for its 2008 Word of the Year. Words are nominated by committee in various categories ranging from entertainment to fashion, environment to technology. You can vote online for your favourite in each category until Jan 31 and … Continue reading →

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Q&A — Peter Murphy

Posted on January 12, 2009 by

Thank you to Peter Murphy, program manager for English and Further study within the School, for being the next Q&A subject. Some questions about your teaching and research   What are your teaching/research interests? I’ve just changed jobs into program … Continue reading →

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Staff publications

Posted on January 8, 2009 by

I have just added an item to the homepage of our subject guides with links to recent publications from researchers within the School of Education. If you have published something recently and think it might be available online please feel … Continue reading →

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New journal table of contents alerting service

Posted on January 6, 2009 by

ticTOCs is a new scholarly journal tables of contents (TOCs) service. It’s free, its easy to use, and it provides access to the most recent tables of contents of over 11,000 scholarly journals from more than 400 publishers. It helps … Continue reading →

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