Teaching support for staff , He tautoko mā ngā kaiwhakaako

We offer a range of library services to support your teaching.

Information skills development

We teach library and information skills development to students in your course. We work with you to tailor the teaching to your subject area, assignments and students’ needs.

The teaching may be:

• face to face
• online
• blended
• synchronous
• asynchronous.

We also offer online classes to all students at the beginning of each semester. These suit beginners and those returning to study who may not be familiar with our resources.

Information literacy

We’re committed to helping students and staff develop information literacy skills.

Information literacy is:

• a set of skills used to discover information
• an understanding of how information is produced and valued
• the ability to use information in creating new knowledge
• ethical participation in learning communities.

We use the Te Whatu Aho Rau - He Anga Arotake framework and other models to support our information literacy teaching.

How to evaluate information

• See library classes and workshops
• Contact a Māori services or subject librarian
• Book an appointment with a librarian

Linking to library resources in Stream

We can give you links to library resources for you to use in reading lists for your courses.

These will mostly be online but will sometimes be scans of items only available in print.

Coordinators need to build their own reading lists. We recommend you use eReserve to do this. Need help? Contact the Stream team via Assyst.

Links to online resources

If you create lists in eReserve, you’ll need correct links to online library resources.

You can get links by:

• emailing a request to library@massey.ac.nz
• from an item record in Discover, copy the link from your browser address bar or use the Share button to create a link (which is often shorter and tidier).

Both of these methods give you links that are persistent, authenticated and compliant with licensing agreements.

PDF scans and uploads

You might also need to upload PDFs of scanned print-only material, such as book chapters or journal articles.

PDFs should only be used:

• within copyright
• if links aren’t available.

The best way to do this is to request the item through eReserve. The library will then upload a high-quality scan of the item to your eReserve list.

You’ll be guided through this in eReserve. Following the instructions in eReserve makes sure you comply with copyright.

Buying textbooks and course resources

The library provides some access to compulsory and recommended textbooks. However, we cannot guarantee access to compulsory textbooks via the library for all students in a course.

Ebooks or print books

The library is advised which textbooks are compulsory or recommended via the Student Management System. We get a complete report at the beginning of each semester and then weekly updates.

We buy ebooks in preference to print books, but not all publishers offer an institutional license suitable for libraries.

If there is an ebook suitable for libraries, we do not buy print copies. Exceptions are books for the Nga Kupu Ora and Pasifika collections.

Numbers of copies

For compulsory textbooks we buy:

• one print copy for every 50 students in the course
• 1 ebook copy for every 100 students in the course.

For recommended textbooks, we buy at least the same as compulsory texts.

All copies are available for loan. We do not keep textbooks in reserved or short loan collections.

Limits / Digital Rights Management

Common usage limits for ebooks are:

• number of simultaneous users – commonly 1 or 3 per licence
• number of pages that can be permanently downloaded or printed.

Our usage statistics show that it is rare for an ebook to have 3 users at one time.

If a compulsory textbook has ebook user limits, we turn off downloading of the full book. It can still be viewed online. This maximises availability as downloads block a user seat for up to two weeks.

We monitor turnaways (where the user limit is reached) and may buy extra licences to meet the buying ratio.

We may also restrict downloads and monitor turnaways for highly recommended and recommended textbooks when necessary.

Offshore students

The Library does not post print copies of compulsory or recommended textbooks overseas.

Course co-ordinators with many offshore students should check that the chosen textbook is available for purchase in those countries. We do not buy copies or licences to support those students beyond the print buying ratio.

Ereserve readings

The Library does not monitor which books have chapters nominated as required or recommended readings in eReserve.

For large courses, co-ordinators may want to check that ebook usage limits don’t make it difficult or impossible for all students to access the reading.

More on textbooks

To find out more about textbooks:

• investigate the possibility of an open access textbook
• see the collection development policy
• recommend a purchase.

Library impact statements

We can write a library impact statement for you. This is required for new courses and programmes.

Please ask your subject librarian directly if you need a library impact statement, and include them as a collaborator in the Curriculum Management System (CMS).