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AAA Education Team Master Guide

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Library Catalogue Search

 Go to the library catalogue 

Search the entire collection
 
Search for ebooks

 

Information about accessing Print resources while our physical libraries are closed.

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

 Library Guide on eBooks

Keyword Search Strategies

Follow these keyword search examples in the library catalogue.

school system* AND instructional leader*
leadership AND classroom instruction
instructional leader* AND student achievement
leader* AND school performance
school improvement AND evaluation
curriculum AND leader* AND school*

Tips for building your search statement

Use truncation to extend search results - e.g. Leader* will retrieve Leader, leaders and leadership

Add "quotation marks" to retrieve a specific phrase.

Use the term OR to find synonyms or alternative terms- e.g. school performance OR key performance indicators OR KPI

Use brackets around alternative terms to create order in your search - e.g. (leader* OR principal*) AND teacher effectiveness

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.

Getting started - Try Reference Books

Reference books can be an excellent starting point for locating quick, background information and developing an understanding of a topic. Here are some suggestions that may help you get started.

PLEASE READ:

  1. These reference books are suitable for adding to any guide  (USE THE LINKED BOOK OPTION)

 

Featured books and ebooks

The University of Melbourne organises books on the shelves using Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC).

Try exploring at the following call numbers when you browse the Giblin Eunson Library collections.

344.0407 Australian educational law and legislation
371.106 Teacher participation in administration
371.2 School management and organization
371.2012 School principals
371.207 Educational planning
378.1 Higher education and administration
379 Education and state
379.15 Educational change

Can't get to the library while on teaching rounds?

Incorporate streamed videos into your lessons or use them for your own professional development.

Find streamed videos on-line using the library catalogue or a database, they are accessible 24/7 and play immediately!

 Search these databases for streamed videos:

Keyword Search Strategies

Follow these keyword search examples in the library catalogue.

school system* AND instructional leader*
leadership AND classroom instruction
instructional leader* AND student achievement
leader* AND school performance
school improvement AND evaluation
curriculum AND leader* AND school*

Tips for building search statements

Use the following techniques to improve your search statements and results (e.g. to find more of the results with a variation of the word form, more focused results with the exact phrase included, a larger set of results with all the possible words in the results, or more accurate combination of the possible search terms).

Truncation (* $)

searches for variant endings

E.g. leader* = leader, leaders, leadership

Quotation marks (" ")

searches for an exact phrase

E.g. "educational theory"

OR operator

expands your search to find similar words or synonyms

E.g. (assessment OR measurement)

Brackets

to create correct processing order in searches

E.g. ("primary school" OR "secondary school") AND assessment

Tips for building search statements

Use the following techniques to improve your search statements and results (e.g. to find more of the results with a variation of the word form, more focused results with the exact phrase included, a larger set of results with all the possible words in the results, or more accurate combination of the possible search terms).

Truncation (* $)

searches for variant endings

E.g. leader* = leader, leaders, leadership

Quotation marks (" ")

searches for an exact phrase

E.g. "educational theory"

OR operator

expands your search to find similar words or synonyms

E.g. (assessment OR measurement)

Brackets

to create correct processing order in searches

E.g. ("primary school" OR "elementary school") AND assessment