Go to the library catalogue
Finding eBooks
- Use a keyword search to find books and ebooks on a topic. Once you have completed a search you can limit your search to a specific collection such as, Giblin Eunson Library or format such as online books (login with your username and password to view e-books)
- Only want an eBook? Choose the option 'eBooks' in the catalogue. To read an e-book, open the catalogue record and then select the link: Connect to electronic book.
Searching in Discovery will also retrieve books and ebooks
Finding and using eBooks
Search strategies
Keywords
Enter the keywords from your topic e.g. youth and citizenship
Subject headings - Library catalogue
Adolescent psychology.
Youth -- Australia.
Peer pressure.
Child care -- Government policy
Citizenship -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain.
Identity (psychology) in adolescence
Youth -- Political activity.
Youth, Aboriginal Australian
Youth -- Attitudes.
Youth -- Australia -- Social conditions.
Youth -- Counseling of.
Youth -- Cross-cultural studies.
Youth -- Employment -- Australia
Youth, Aboriginal Australian
Youth and violence.
Getting started with reference books
Reference titles can be an excellent starting point for locating quick, background information and developing an understanding of a topic.
The majority of our reference sources are available online via the library catalogue and Discovery.The print reference collection is housed in the compactus on the ground floor of the Giblin Eunson Library. Here are some recomended titles.
Encyclopedia of child behavior and development by Call Number: Online resource
Youth, education, and sexualities : an international encyclopedia by Call Number: UniM Giblin Eunson REF 371.826603 YOUT
Youth activism : an international encyclopedia by Call Number: UniM Giblin Eunson REF 320.083503 YOUTEncyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media by
Call Number: Online resource
International encyclopedia of adolescence by Call Number: UniM Giblin Eunson REF 305.23503 ARNE
Browsing the collection
As well as searching the library catalogue, you might like to browse the library shelves of the general book collection at the Giblin Eunson Library.
Try exploring at the following call numbers.
301 Sociology & anthropology
305 Social groups
305 235 adolescence
305.235 youth culture
306 Culture & institutions
323.6 citizenship
331.340994 youth employment
364.360973 Homelessness
362.87809945 Refugee youth
364.360973 Juvenile justice
372.21 early childhood education
Further borrowing options
- Graduate students and staff member can request books and articles we don't own via interlibrary loans Requested books are delivered to the University of Melbourne Library for collection.
- Find copies of books held in Australian libraries using TROVE.
- Borrowing from other Victorian Universities - Get a CAVAL card and then you can visit and borrow books from other university libraries in Victoria.
- Live Interstate? Borrowing options - Use the ULANZ borrowing scheme to borrow in person from any other participating Australian and New Zealand university libraries.
- Want us to buy a book? Fill in the Orders Request form.