Get to know your Library during Orientation
If you’re just starting your studies with Deakin, welcome to your first study period! And if you’ve already commenced your degree but this is your first chance to spend time on campus, we look forward to meeting you!
No matter where you are studying, there are loads of ways you can get to know your Library in your first few weeks at uni.
Commencing students, explore your library
The Library is running online ‘Explore your Library’ sessions to help new students understand the resources, services and facilities available to them through Deakin Library. In this online session, you will learn all you need to know about how the Library helps you succeed at Deakin. Our programs, services and activities save you time, provide critical information and enable you to be more effective in your learning and research.
Your Library offers a range of services, including live Library Chat, to ensure study from home is just as easy. Discover the best way to approach your studies by joining us for this Library session.
At the end of this session, students will have knowledge and skills to:
- navigate key parts of the Library website
- search for digital and print resources
- borrow, return and request items
- access course materials and subject-specific guides.
Register for a session now, as spaces are filling fast!
Don’t worry if you miss a live session, you can watch the recording on UniStart (undergraduate students) or Preparing to Succeed (postgraduate students) in your own time.
Get help with your tech set up
Deakin Library’s Student TechAssist service offers students in their first few weeks at Deakin a chance to get one-on-one assistance with their technical setup and related queries. This is an on-demand student-led service at the Library service desk.
Our Student TechAssist team can help with:
- CloudDeakin/D2L setup
- multi-factor authentication
- wi-fi/Eduroam login
- printing queries
- basic Microsoft support.
TechAssist will be available during OWeek, Week 1 and Week 2 from 10am-5pm Monday – Friday
Look for the Student TechAssist banner at your campus Library service desk. Our team of friendly Deakin students will be wearing grey aprons and blue lanyards, with tablets and laptops at the ready to help you out! No appointment needed.
Join us for a Library tour
Each campus Library is unique – full of group study spaces, comfy seats and powered desks, computers, printers and scanners, book collections and much more. Guided tours of your campus Library are also available on demand – just speak to staff at the service desk. These tours are a great way for you to get to know the spaces in your Library, as well as ask any questions you might have.
You can also take a virtual tour of our Australian Library campuses on our website to see what’s available!
Check out an exhibition
Through the Library’s Exhibitions Program, the Deakin community can explore the many ideas that shape our University. We create new connections through showcasing Deakin’s unique and valuable collections and scholarly outputs.
Discover our current exhibitions including Memories that Make Us at Burwood campus, The Garden We Grew at Waurn Ponds campus and Neighbourhood: What does the Library mean to you? at Waterfront campus. These exhibitions are free, open to students and the public, and offer a chance to experience the Library as more than just a study space.
Bookmark/subscribe to the Library blog
Deakin Library’s official blog, Article, is updated weekly to provide you with the latest Library news, study tips, interesting stories from our Archives and Special Collections, research insights, digital display innovation and much more. You can subscribe to get an email when a new blog is posted or look out for new blogs on the Library homepage under News.
Follow us on social media
This is the easiest way to keep up to date with what’s going on in your Library is by following us @deakinlibrary on:
Good luck in your first study period! Don’t hesitate to reach out via Library Chat with any questions you may have. We are here to help you succeed at Deakin.
Originally published on Article, the Deakin Library blog.
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