Guides: South Metropolitan TAFE Library Service: Services for Staff

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Overview

Services for Staff

To find out how the Library Service can support your course delivery, head to the Library Services page on the Intranet.

Choose a tab above to start exploring our online resources such as databases, streamed video, subject guides and more.

Below are just some of the Library resources and services the library offers:

Library Skills Training (see box on this page)
Copyright Support
Resources for Blackboard (staff only access)
APA Referencing Guide
Subject Guides

Need some help? Search our FAQs, use LibChat, contact us by phone or email, or ask in your Campus Library.

Videostreaming Databases

The Library Service provides subscriptions to a large range of videorecording/streaming resources which you may find useful to incorporate in your courses:

EduTV > SMT
As part of our Screenrights Agreement at SMT, you can access (and download locally) over 100,000 documentaries, dramas and TV programs focused on teaching and learning from 2006 to now (content is added weekly). Much of the content is free-to-air (with reliable access) from ABC, NITV, SBS, BBC, The History Channel, National Geographic and Discovery.
Kanopy > SMT
Includes thousands of streaming videos across a range of subject areas. The collection has been expanded to provide you with more access to content.
Safetycare Safetyhub > SMT
Provides online access to a wide selection of occupational health and safety training videos.
Alexander Street Press Video Collection > SMT
Access to nearly 4000 videos on all aspects of education (NOTE: content dates from 2004 - 2013) .

We do still have some older but relevant DVDs which you are welcome to borrow (along with an external DVD player so you can use in class).
Check Supersearch to see what we hold.
Do a search and then limit to Resource Type: videos.

Let us know if you can't find what you need and we'll see if we can source it for you.

Copyright

Sharing quality information resources with your students is an important part of the teaching and learning experience, but what if the copyright of that resource is owned by somebody else?

In order to comply with your responsibilities under the Copyright Act, you need to understand the requirements of the Act in an educational institution, and to label (attribute) resources correctly.

For comprehensive copyright information, go to: Copyright for Staff

Library Skills Training

The Library Service offers a range of information literacy and orientation sessions for your students.

Orientation sessions explain the use of the library facilities and the services we offer. These are available in the campus libraries and, on request, at campuses without a library. Library Orientation sessions are conducted at the beginning of each term, generally in the Library, and may be booked by Lecturers during class time.

Information Literacy sessions can be conducted at most campuses on topics such as:

Find it – Finding information using Supersearch, Databases and our online resources
Use it – Evaluating information, using quotes and paraphrases
Reference it – Correctly referencing in assignments using the APA referencing style

Please contact your local campus Library for more information about information literacy and orientation sessions.

We also have this information available online as self-paced courses. See our Library Know How page for more information.