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Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is one of the members of the Australian Technology Network (ATN). ATN is a consortium of technology and industry focused institutions, which includes Curtin University, RMIT University, University of South Australia and the University of Technology Sydney. With around 40,000 students enrolled in eight faculties (Built Environment and Engineering, Education, Business, information Technology, Health, Science, Law, and Creative Industries) in 2003 (Partridge and Edwards 2005) , QUT is devoted to provide ‘outstanding learning environments and programs that lead to excellent outcomes for graduates’ (QUT cited in Partridge and Edward 2005).
Image:Library.jpg QUT Library (QUT 2005).
QUT is a multicampus institutions with three campuses located at Garden Points, Kelvin Grove and Carseldine. In 1998, QUT put together a Flexible Delivery Policy which enhanced the online learning environment at the university. The library services and staff are then concentrating on increasing students’ learning outcomes in both traditional and non-traditional ways (McCarthy 2001).
The library’s homepage is linked to all library services, including:
The library provides 24 hour period service as well as providing electronic full text resources. The library service allows staff and students from both on-campus and off-campus to access to the library. Students are also offered to talk to the librarian online or face-to-face to give full support to the students McCarthy 2001.
Image:Cmd.jpg QUT CMD (QUT 2005).
The Course Materials Database (CMD) is a 24/7 database for QUT staffs and students to access to all materials through On Line Teaching (OLT) (Callan and Colleen 2005). The project started in May 2000 and was launched successfully in QUT during Semester 2, 2001. The CMD has collaborated with several areas of QUT to deliver information resources electronically to the students of QUT. All the materials including articles and book chapters for the course unit, lecture notes, law cases and legislation, and past exam papers contained copyright; and are available on the CMD through the Online Learning and Teaching (OLT) page. CMD was proved to be a success because there were only 4000 documents that had been loaded onto CMD, yet, CMD had received 250,000 hits by the end of July 2001 (the second week after CMD was launched) (Young and Stokker 2001).
Image:Eprints.jpg QUT ePrints (QUT 2005).
QUT ePrints was established in December 2003 as QUT own institutional eprint repository. This repository is the storage platform for the research outputs of QUT academic staff and postgraduate students. QUT ePrints uses the GNU EPrints open archive software which is free of charge, from http://software.eprints.org. The participation rate for involving in QUT ePrints is very low due to lack of understanding and awareness. Therefore, a few promotional strategies are used to increase the participation rate, which include publishing in University newspaper, giving presentations, updates email and display a link in QUT Library web page (Callan and Colleen 2005).
Callan, P. and C. Colleen. 2005. Digital repositories at Queensland University of Technology. In Managing Information in the Digital Age: ATN libraries respond to the challenge, ed. A. Huthwaite, 1-13. Adelaide: University of South Australia Library for Librarians of the Australian Technology Network.
McCarthy, J. 2001. Integrating library services into the elearning environment at Queensland University of Technology. Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 32 (3).
Partridge, H. and S. Edwards. 2005. Establishing the IT Student’s Perspective to e-Learning: Preliminary Findings from a Queensland University of Technology Case Study. In Proceedings Informing Science and Information Technology Education joint conference, Flagstaff, Arizona.
QUT CMD. 2005. [Image]. Brisbane: Queensland University of Technology.
QUT ePrints. 2005. [Image]. Brisbane: Queensland University of Technology.
QUT Library. 2005. [Image]. Brisbane: Queensland University of Technology.
QUT. quoted in H. Partridge and S. Edwards. 2005. Establishing the IT Student’s Perspective to e-Learning: Preliminary Findings from a Queensland University of Technology Case Study. In Proceedings Informing Science and Information Technology Education joint conference, Flagstaff, Arizona.
Young. C. and J. Stokker. 2001. Course materials database: integrating information resources into online teaching for students at QUT. Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 32(3).
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