Bond University Library

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Bond University Library's vision is to provide quality library and information services to support the University's learning, teaching, research and community activities. In achieving its vision, the Library provides a comprehensive range of customer-focused and innovative services, resources, and facilities through its two branch libraries, the Main Library and the John and Alison Kearney Law Library.


Customers

  • Students (undergraduate, postgraduate)
  • Academic staff
  • Alumni, reciprocal members from other universities and the local community.

There are 4 faculties:

  • Faculty of Business, Technology, and Sustainable Development
  • Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine
  • Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Faculty of Law

The Main Library collection covers a wide range of disciplines including business, and management, information technology and computer science, psychology, journalism, media studies, film and television, criminology, foreign languages, linguistics, Asian studies, international relations, Australian studies, health sciences and medicine.

The John and Alison Kearney Law Library has an extensive collection of specialized law materials in print and electronic formats as well as a wide range of primary and secondary sources for Australia and many other countries.


The Catalogue

The Library catalogue is the key to finding Library resources regardless of format. Increasingly electronic resources are directly accessible from the Library catalogue. Borrowers can place holds and check their personal information on loans and progress of their holds using the Library catalogue.


Services, Facilities & Resources

  • Extensive opening hours - the Library is open 86 hours per week, 42 weeks of the year.
  • Liaison Librarian - a librarian dedicated to each academic area is responsible to build the collections, train students and staff, support their information needs, and facilitate their access to information resources, services and facilities in the most effective way
  • 240,000 volumes, 2000 print journal titles, access to over 30,000 electronic journals, thousands of full text electronic books, and over 120 databases.
  • Information Literacy - Liaison Librarians work in partnership with academic staff to teach students information skills relevant to their academic study needs.
  • Personalized service - staff-student ratios permit Librarians to work in close consultation with academic staff and students.
  • Computing facilities - the Library has a large number of computers for student access to the internet and the University's full range of networked resources and applications including the MS Office suite of programs, the Library's electronic resources and email.
  • Wireless network - to provide greater flexibility of information access, the Library operates a wireless network that enables students direct network access using their personal laptop computers. In addition there are Internet ports for personal laptops.
  • Support for Referencing - the University subscribes to both EndNote and RefWorks bibliographic management products. The library provides both training and support for staff and students using EndNote and RefWorks.
  • AskALibrarian - e-mail reference service.
  • Document Delivery Service - all staff and students can request resources that are unavailable locally, free of charge.