September 2022
What’s been happening at GP? (Emma Nelms)
There was an urgent building closure of V block on the evening of Thursday 21 September with about six hours’ notice. We let everyone in the building know, arranged for signage on our RFID self-loan kiosks and returns shelf as these would have to manually restarted the next day, arranged for building notifications, updated the website, alerted security that the doors must be available for 24 hours opening afterwards and alerted the law library that some students might be studying there that evening. Security managed the emptying of the building – as it was a little earlier than anticipated but everything seemed to run smoothly.
Gardens Point librarians Michael Hawks, Brendan Sinnamon and Annette Sondergeld were part of Pause for Support – an expo of students’ services brought together by Disability Services, armed with laptop & badge maker.
The Gardens Point level 7 bathroom renovation is finally complete and looking modern and splendid, putting an end to the V block bathroom fitness challenge requiring staff to travel to level 5 and back (or further if cleaners were visiting).
Faculty of Engineering Liaison (Brendan Sinnamon)
Brendan was acknowledged in the Acknowledgements section of the recently published systematic review and meta-analysis article at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00402-022-04621-z (details below) for assistance with the literature search and refinement of the search protocol.
Complications associated using the reamer–irrigator –aspirator (RIA) system: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- Markus Laubach,
- Lucas P. Weimer,
- Felix M. Bläsius,
- Frank Hildebrand,
- Philipp Kobbe &
- Dietmar W. Hutmacher
Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery (2022)
Faculty of Engineering Liaison (Graham Dawson)
Research Support
- Graham attended Office of Research Services Meet & Greet for an overview of what they do and how they assist the research community – 8 Sept.
- Graham presented on Library Services for Researchers to seven (7) FoE HDR scholars at FoE online HDR student orientation — Mon 19 Sept.
- AD (Research) Prof Andrew Bradley has announced his intention to retire at the end of year 2022.
New Research Staff
Dr Alejandro Fontan Villacampa commenced as postdoc research fellow QCR — 1 Sept. Also starting in September were Dr Anju Tom (machine learning and RF signals) and Dr Abdullah Nazib (onboard AI for hyperspectral satellite image analysis). Both these research fellows work with Prof Clinton Fookes in School of EER.
Learning and Teaching Support
- Ann-Maree attended first drop-in session for DYB114 student. First year unit in ABE. 10 students turned up looking for help with their assignment. Worked in conjunction with Emma Caukhill from SSG. Drop-ins will run in Week 8, 9 and 10.
- VRES expressions of interests are sadly low which is likely a reflection of robust employer demand for engineering skills and the extent of summer WIL internships on offer.
- VRES LibGuide was updated with FoE specific information.
- Engineers Australia (EA) course accreditation panel visit will include liaison librarians in the scheduled informal chat session with FoE technical staff over morning tea on Fri 7 Oct.
- Graham authored a section on library support and resources for engineering programmes for the EA panel earlier in the year.
- Concerningly, no identifiable STEM related offerings were approved for the first tranche of the QUT You initiative.
- Engineering LLs met with Sarah Howard to catch up with her conversion with Karen Whelan. Pressbooks and resources for teaching technical report writing were discussed.
Faculty News and Developments
- Associate Professor Jonathan Bunker (School of Civil and Environmental Engineering) has been appointed as the faculty’s Director of Postgraduate Studies. The Director of Postgraduate Studies will help drive postgraduate course planning and development and is responsible for ensuring alignment of the faculty’s postgraduate education offerings with its strategic direction.
Coursework News
New degrees for the School of Architecture and Built Environment (ABE)
- Will begin in 2024
- Share a common first year
- Rolling out 1 year at a time
- Bachelor of Built Environment (Honours) with majors in Construction Management & Quantity Surveying, Urban & Regional Planning, Interior Design and Landscape Architecture
- Bachelor of Architectural Design (3 yr) + Masters (2 yr).
- Diploma of Architectural Studies (QUT College entry program)
Other Related Activity
- Graham and Kate attended the 3rd Education Portfolio Forum, hosted by QUT Entrepreneurship and Student Ombudsman – 27 Sept
Faculty of Science Liaison
The team met with Joe Sambono, the QUT Program Lead for Embedding Indigenous Australian Perspectives into curriculum. He explained his role to us, and how he is working within the Faculty of Science. We are investigating how we can support academics in this, from the library perspective
On a related note, we were invited by the FoS ADLT, Trina Myers to contribute to the Faculty of Science Action Plan for embedding indigenous perspective into the curriculum. The Faculty is preparing new degrees for the Bachelor of Science and the Bachelor of IT which will incorporate a scaffolded framework across each degree for the inclusion of indigenous perspectives.
Collection Access (Cameron MacLeod)
Fieldwork students (Gabriel Boylan/David Huynh) completed their placement during September.
Staffing News
Jenny Thomas went on a secondment to the State Library of Queensland from 19 September to 2 December 20222 to work on their digital engagement strategy. Jenny is being backfilled during this time by Emma Nelms, following an EOI.