13. Library Services

13.1. Library Services

Figure 15: Library Home Page

The Library offers a number of services that students can access either through the Library's home page or through direct telnet access.

The URL of the Library's home page is

<http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au>

or you can access it from the University's home page.

The Library's home page is a gateway to a range of electronic resources, services, information about collections and home pages of the many branch libraries.

13.1.1. Buddy

Figure 16: Buddy Interface

Buddy has been developed to make it easy to locate electronic information for essays, research papers and assignments.

Buddy is a web based subject gateway which directs you to a whole range of subject specific CD ROM databases and web databases which index many thousands of journal articles, full text electronic journals, conference proceedings, library catalogues from around the world and the WWW.

If you have Internet access from your home and have organised a university account through Information Technology Services, you can access and search the databases via Buddy.

Five of the branch libraries have Buddy workstations and they are located in the following libraries: the Baillieu Library (Arts &Humanities), Brownless Biomedical Library (Medicine, Health Sciences, Botany and Zoology), Giblin Economics and Commerce Library, Education Resource Centre, and Engineering Library. In addition to these sites you can access Buddy from any computer on campus. Buddy can be booked for use during the normal opening hours of each individual library.

Buddy is for use by University of Melbourne students and staff only.

13.1.2. The online Library Catalogue

The online library catalogue is accessible via the Web or Telnet. The online library catalogue includes the holdings of:

• The University of Melbourne Library

• University of Ballarat

• Victorian College of the Arts

• Melbourne Business School

13.1.2.1. Web version of the Online Library Catalogue

Figure 17: Web Library Catalogue

You can access the web version of the online library catalogue from the Library's WWW site:

<http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/>

or in any of the branch libraries, the Buddy workstations in the Baillieu, Brownless Biomedical Library, Giblin Economics and Commerce Library, ERC and Engineering library, computer labs or from home via the WWW. No usernames or passwords are needed.

13.1.2.2. The Online Library Catalogue via Telnet

All the branch libraries have dedicated online public access catalogues (OPACs). These catalogues are accessible via Telnet.

From computer labs on campus, you can access the library catalogue by using Telnet or from home by using a terminal program and a modem and dialing in to the University's dial-in service. If using this method you would connect to library.unimelb.edu.au, opac.unimelb.edu.au or cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au.

Once you have connected to the library you will be asked to login. You should login by typing library and press <return>.

No password is required.

The first screen will ask you to confirm your terminal type. Enter V and then y to indicate that you are emulating a VT100 terminal. When you connect to the catalogue either by Telnet or dialin, you are emulating a VT100 terminal.

Figure 18: Selecting the Terminal Type

Follow the instructions at the bottom of each screen. You don't need to press <return> or <enter> unless it says so on the screen.

Figure 19: Telnet Interface

There is a guide to searching the Library catalogue available on the library web site :

<http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/catalogues/searching.html>

13.1.3. Accessing the Library by modem

Staff or postgraduate students who dial into the University modem service can access the Library directly. On dialing in you will see the prompt 'tserver> ' and you should then enter: t library or t opac

and press <Return> or <Enter>.

Connect to the catalogue by logging in as library; no password is required. Then follow the previous instructions.

13.1.4. Getting Help from the Library

New products and developments in electronic information resource delivery are happening at a very rapid pace. If you need assistance in accessing electronic resources ask a library staff at the Information Desk in your branch library. Online reference help is available at the following library web site:

<http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/services/inquiry.htm>

13.1.5. Exam Papers

Access is restricted to The University of Melbourne community only.

The recent exam papers are in portable document format (PDF). You need to download and install Acrobat Reader (free) to read these files. The Windows version of Acrobat Reader is available from:

<ftp://ftp.unimelb.edu.au/pub/www/helpers/ms-windows/acrobat>

while the Macintosh version is available from:

<ftp://ftp.unimelb.edu.au/pub/www/helpers/macintosh/acrobat>

Exam papers are available at:

<http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/unimelb-only/exam/exams.html>

You can search for exam papers by Faculty/School/Department or by subject.

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