July 2022

Activities

Faculty of Engineering Liaison (Graham Dawson)

– attended the Faculty of Engineering Town Hall presentation where both the Vice-Chancellor and the Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching) spoke on the imperative of the faculty improving the attractiveness of their various masters programmes to potential new students – Monday 4 July

– Graham and Brendan met with Anja Ali-Haapala from Student Success Group to discuss our intersecting support efforts for FoE taught degree programmes — Monday 4 July

– met with Kelly M Walters from Qld TMR re planning for the 11 October Webinar on Qld Open Data Portal e.g. data (sets such as Traffic Census) – Tues 5 July

– attended QUT’s Power, Energy and Clean Technology (PECT) seminar by Dr Bruce Leslie from Vast Solar titled “CSP Solar Thermal Power – Renewable Storage for Now ” – Friday 8 July

– Graham and Ann-Maree attended the commencing HDR student meet and greet function at KG – Tues 12 July

– Library article in FoE monthly staff newsletter McGraw-Hill Access Engineering published – Thurs 7 July

– Eileen and Graham developed updated signage for the physical map collection on level 5 directing users to digital alternatives for more up-to-date coverage – Friday 8 July

– Eileen and Graham published a LibGuide on digital mapping resources and updated the web pages Finding information by type – Maps — month of July

– Ann-Maree attended the FoE T&L Committee meeting.  Discussion of units with high number of students failing, withdrawing and repeating units. Also update on FoE EOIs for QUTYou – none of the Engineering suggestions went through to the second EOI but they have been asked to collaborate on 3 with other areas – food, wellbeing and resilience and collaboration/social decision making.  It was noted that the units that have gone through to the next round are heavily weighted toward HASS.  Karen mentioned that perhaps Robina will ask for input to highlight that we are a university of technology and provide some focus on STEM – Wed 13 July

– Brendan completed work for Joanne Richardson (Operations Manager, Max Planck Qld Centre MMPE to find publications for some QUT authors where funding was provided from a completed grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC) Industrial Transformation Training Centre in Additive Biomanufacturing. Grant Number: IC1601000026: In order to fulfil ARC requirements he found the number of open access publications borne out of their grant using the Unpaywall Simple Query Tool – Tues 19 July

–  attended the FoE Learning and Teaching Partners Meeting – Mon 18 July

– Library article authored by Brendan for FoE August staff newsletter Journal Esteem 2021 Metrics submitted – Tues 19 July.

– met with Prof Alexander Paz QUT TMR chair re planning for the 11 October Webinar on Qld Open Data Portal TMR datasets – Fri 22 July

– Kate H presented to the DTB305 Interior Studio class on modern community library design – Tues 26 July

–  advised ABE academics AProf Deb Cushing and Dr Tracy Washington on their ARC Linkage Grant publication options for Intergenerational Parks: Design Guide for Physical Activity and Social Engagement Across Generations  – Tues 26 July

– demonstrated to Prof Will N Browne EER re. author disambiguation and how to claim all his Web of Science (WoS) indexed publications with his (now improved) Publons account – Fri 29 July

Faculty of Engineering Liaison (Brendan Sinnamon)

– assistance provided to quite a number of researchers including Professor David Thambiratnam, Dr Saskia Neale and new to QUT Dr Mohammad Mirkhalaf Valashani relating to setting up of author profiles across multiple platforms and explaining and demonstrating the interaction between platforms.

– Readings list created for EGB322 and EGH423 for Dr Wim Dekkers and for Professor Ashantha Goonetilleke for new civil engineering unit EGB124. For EGB124 reading list also provided quite a number of resources relating to indigenous perspectives.

Faculty of Science Liaison (Gabrielle Hayes)

– attended the Meet, Greet and Eat session for HDRs at Kelvin Grove in the Curriculum Collection.  The students who attended were pretty chatty and seemed to enjoy it.  There were about 5 from Science who turned up.  Of the 60 or so who registered, about 1/3 showed up.  There were also prizes to be had, and the food was pretty good.

– attended the Insentia/Media Monitors training run by Rod Chester.  Media Monitors is managed by Marketing and Communication, and used for various uses around the University.  It is a useful resource when looking for evidence of impact for researchers, as it captures some media mentions not recorded elsewhere.  Rod works with most of the Tier 1 research centres to provide them with the media mentions, but has also worked with individuals.

– investigated ABS and other workforce stats for Sharon Altena (Senior Curriculum and Learning Designer).  She was looking for some updated information on employment and earnings for Game Designers to inform a design sprint.  She is involved in course redesign for the Bachelor of IT and the Bachelor of Games and Interactive Environments.  Ultimately, those stats have not been released (October 2022), but she thinks the information will be useful for future course redesign activities.

– began the Project “Inclusion of Indigenous Perspectives in the QUT Library Collection Sciences subject areas”.  An investigation and extensive searching is being done looking for resources, published in the last 5 years that fits QUT (Queensland University of Technology) Library’s Collection Development policy.  Focus is on Indigenous Authors.

– met with FoS Associate Director (Research), Kathryn Fairfull-Smith and had a quick discussion of research foci in Faculty and emerging areas of research.

Library Advisers (Stephanie Jacobs)

With the enquiry services in off-peak, July saw the Library Advisers focused on delivering workshops in preparation for Semester 2, working on faculty-specific tasks or engaging in project work.  Even in the quieter period the GP Library Adviser team helped 57 students across chat and appointments.  The Team is now gearing up for the period from Week 3 onwards, so listen out for rapid keystrokes and the squeak of car wheels as we move quick to help our clients!

The QUT D&D Guild took over our spaces on level 2 on two occasions, on 5th July and 3rd August.  It looks like there will be another event happening soon.

Collection Access (Cameron MacLeod)

The GP Collection Access Team assisted with the preparation of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation Book Sale, as well as with the clean up after the event.

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Staffing

David Cohen returned…

Web and Digital engagement

• digital strategy
• CAUGs
• Study pages group
• LMS+ student support templates…