Check out the new Library Resource Guides page
Did you know the library has more than 100 Resource Guides? Resource Guides are created by expert librarians across all four faculties, collecting key resources and databases for a huge range of subject areas. They are regularly updated and tailored for your area of study, so you’ll find only the most relevant information.
Finding the right guide for your needs is key. This has driven a recent library project to make some changes to this area of our website. As part of this work, we improved navigation and added better access to relevant study materials or skills that match individual needs.
In fact, to ensure we were better supporting your needs, we made several designs and then chatted with students to check how easy they found them to use! Their feedback helped us fine-tune the pages and make sure we provided the best result possible.
So, what has changed? We:
- improved the style to align with Deakin branding and more recent design work
- added extra categories to help you find our skills improvement guides, including:
- Finding and using resources, for general guides that don’t specifically relate to a particular school or study area
- Teaching resources for academics, for guides aimed at academics
- tailored our recommended skills-improvement guides by faculty, grouping them by topic under each subject area guide (e.g. all Health guides have related guides of endnote and referencing)
- improved accessibility, particularly for users on mobile devices
Hot tip!
If you can’t find a guide on a particular subject, we strongly encourage you to click on the ‘Contact your librarian’ button at the top of the landing page and let us know. We might have something relevant ready to roll or we can add it to our next steps plan!
Like all webpages, the Library Resource Guide landing page is one that will continue to change and improve over time. We are always looking for ways to make the content on our website more useful for you. Stay tuned in 2021 for even better functionality when moving around our guides.