March 2022

Accolades

Acknowledgement on Publication

Congratulations and well done to Cameron for receiving great feedback and acknowledgement from Aaron Akpu Philip (MSPH), Doctoral Researcher, HDR Representative from School of Public Health and Social Work!

Aaron has thanked Cameron for being very helpful since he has started working on his paper, which has been accepted and published.

Complimentary Feedback from KG HiQ Supervisor

Congratulations to one of our CA team members for receiving lovely feedback from Debby Redshaw, Team Leader HiQ Kelvin Grove (see below). Whoever you are – well done 😊

Dear Gillian, Thu, Tanya and Sandra,

Thank you so much for a great session today in our promotion club. Colleagues are raving about how useful your presentations were and I know some people found citations etc that they never knew existed!

Once we have your Powerpoints we will also save these in the Teams folder. Sorry, I had to dash, someone was waiting to get into my room.

Suzanne

Suzanne Carrington Professor and Researcher in The Centre for Inclusive Education (C4IE)

Thank you for community engagement activities

Thank you Sally for attending the  Australian Centre for Health Law Research  9th Annual Public Oration – Andrew Denton & Justice Applegarth AM on the 12^th March.  The topic was the process of enacting voluntary assisted dying laws in 5 states, with Queensland being the most recent.  The use of research in lobbying for change was discussed in the political context, including when misinformation campaigns are run by large organisations.  The support of the Nurses Union in getting the bills through was mentioned a few times.

Feedback on metrics and grant application support

Hi Sally

Many thanks for your call this afternoon.

You have been so kind and supportive in assisting me to find this information for the Investigator grant.

I find that Overton and Altmetrics were quite useful in terms of impact…which picked up a few extra pieces of evidence that I was able to include.

I am also grateful for the summary that you sent through. Although I had used it to draft my responses, at the last minute when I was asked to change something, this was my go to!

Kind Regards

xxxxx RN PhD | Churchill Fellow

Feedback on help with predatory publishers

Thanks Sally,

That is fabulous information.  I went looking for costs and did not find this information so thank you and taking this all into consideration, I am not going to pursue.

I really appreciate you looking into this.
Regards

Associate Professor Christina Parker

2021 Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence

Catherine has finally received her certificate for the 2021 Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in the category of Inclusion and Diversity Excellence for her work with the Faculty of Health Cultural Safety and Indigenous Issues School Champions!

The Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence (VCAE) are prestigious awards conferred to individuals and teams in recognition of their exceptional performance over the past twelve months. This is a wonderful accolade, and a recognition of staff’s hard work and impact at QUT.

In addition to receiving the award certificate, Catherine has her name added to the team award details on the University website and received a monetary prize to the value of $500, being her share of the team award. Congratulations and well done Catherine!

Create a Better Online You

Congratulations and thank you to both Helen Davies and Rosie Glynn for their efforts in updating the “Create a Better Online You” which is a suite of social media modules, designed to improve students’ knowledge and understanding of social media as it relates to their personal, student and professional life. It is a valuable and well utilized resource.

Off-Air Weeding Project

Special thank you to Ellen and Zach for volunteering to check all off-air DVDs for a streaming alternative for all KG’s disciplines!

Student Professional Placement Program Champion

Congratulations and special thank you to Ellen for refreshing the Student Professional Placement procedure (including a new look webpage), recommending a dedicated Placement Program Champion in each library branch and for being selected as KG’s Placement Program Champion.

Education Team 

Well done to Denise for delivering these classes and for receiving some wonderful feedback:

6 (six) classes for Master of Education student (supported by relevant learning objects on Blackboard). Feedback received:

• The showing of all the tools has been the most beneficial, and I have done research! Cannot name one thing that needs to be changed. Amazing and so useful!
• This should be mandatory learning at the BEGINNING of each Masters degree .
• Thank you so much for the very informative session last night on survey ethics, how to use Scopus and SAGE research methods online!!  I just finished watching the recording of our lecture from last night and I am inspired by your enthusiasm and all the wonderful resource we have available to help us succeed in our study! 

7 (seven) blended classes for students – hands-on (at Curriculum Collection) and online (supported by relevant learning objects on Blackboard). Feedback received:

• All was useful! Everything was explained clearly and helped me understand what resources I have access to online and how I can access them (I am an online student). 
• Everything was useful!! A tour of the classroom resources and how to get there/how to use through blackboard. It was all fantastic! Really useful  

Well done to Gillian for spending approximately 2 (two) hours helping the Investigative Associate staff member hired to set up alerts for the 200 plus academics working/ affiliated with the Digital Child centre.

Extreme Weather Working Arrangements and Recovery Projects

Following the extreme weather events that impacted both campuses, staff worked from home until Friday 11th March

Thank you to all the our KG staff and teams and GP colleagues who worked on resolving issues and undertaking recovery tasks;

• Teresa and her team with the help from Cameron and his team worked on KG campus on Monday 7th March – Tuesday 8th March to scan the barcodes of the water damaged books, bag them up in zip lock bags and put them aside as part of the clean-up
• Catherine Haden reviewed the list of the Psychology books that were water damaged and ordered replacement copies as appropriate
• Temporarily closing Level 6 (Researches’ Centre) and parts of Level 5 to allow for cleaning and repair works with the help of FM, Cleaning Services and Security
• Switching our service delivery to on-line mode

Library Tours

We played a part in the Welcome Week by offering short physical KG Library tours. The tours took place on Tuesday 15th March, Wednesday 16th March and Monday 21st March between 11am and 2pm and ran for 20 – 30 minutes. We offered this tour in order to welcome students to our spaces, to let them know about the services and resources that are available in our library and to show them who we are behind the screens. Students who took part on this activity were given free QUT T-Shirts at the end of the tour.

Thank you to Danielle for working with Kate Thomas and David to rework the scripts for the tours from a more librarian perspective and to Jenny Clouston, Helen B and Helen D for leading the tours!

Clothing Repair Café

We were thrilled to be able to provide the (link) space that we have between R & E Block for the Sustainability Team to run a Clothing Repair Café on Wednesday 16th March. The aim of this event was to help build a circular fashion economy and reduce the environmental and social impacts of fast fashion.

Students and staff were welcome to bring in their small sewing fix-it jobs to QUT fashion students and get them fixed while learning how to easily mend their own clothing. What a clever idea!

New Senior Library Advisor

Following an external recruitment process, Danielle Laing has been appointed to the Senior Library Adviser role at KG Library effective as of Monday 14th March.

Danielle holds a Master of Information and Technology and has been working in different roles in QUT Library and HiQ for the last 7 years. She has extensive experience delivering, designing, and improving customer focused support services for students and a proven track record of supervising, training, coordinating and leading teams to successfully deliver those support services for students.

Congratulations Danielle!!

Great Book Swap Morning Tea

On Friday 18th March we held a Great Book Swap Morning Tea to support the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) to provide books and learning resources to children living in remote Communities across Australia.

This year the ILF are aiming raise $150,000 to gift 15,000 new books to remote Communities.

To date KG Library Team has raised $279.50 worth of donation. Thank you for your generous contribution!

Special thank you to Catherine Radbourne for helping Mimy in organizing the event!

24/7 Access Trial

After months of extensive planning, preparation and collaboration with various partners (ie. Security, HSE and FM), the highly anticipated 24/7 access trial was launched on Monday 21st March. From this date, both students and staff can access our library between 8pm and 7am weekdays and 5pm and 9am on weekends by swiping their QUT ID card. After hour access is from the main entrance door opposite Gather Café and Bar. QUT Security regularly monitor the buildings during the extended hours and both students and staff are encouraged to carry a mobile phone and download the SafeZone app.

The trial has gone well so far and we have recorded an impressive number of 1,898 entries across GP and KG libraries in the first week. Duress buttons will be installed on each level of the Libraries.

This is a one-month trial but we hope to continue for the remainder of the semester and beyond.

On the Horizon

• Deselection activities for KG Library’s collection
• To assess the whole physical collection at KG Library, ie. layout, position, shelving, distances, etc. to increase discoverability, use and access for all abilities
• Instalments of 3D models in the display cabinets on Level 2
• Welcome morning tea for School of Justice and S4J Team 4 April