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 Rauru Whakarare Evaluation Framework to support our information literacy teaching.
- See library classes and workshops
- Contact a Māori services or subject librarian
- Book an appointment with a librarian
Linking to library resources
We can give you links to online library resources for you to use in reading lists for your courses.
To create reading lists, we recommend you use eReserve.
In eReserve you can either:
- create lists yourself
- ask someone else to create lists for you.
If you create lists yourself in eReserve, you’ll need correct links to online library resources.
You can get links by:
- emailing a request to library@massey.ac.nz
- using the Permalink button in Discover – this should be under Tools at the right hand side in an item record.
Both of these methods give you links that are persistent, authenticated and compliant with licensing agreements.
You might also need to upload PDFs of scanned print material. You’ll be guided through this in eReserve. PDFs should only be used:
- within copyright
- if links aren’t available.
Following the instructions in eReserve makes sure you comply with copyright.
Buying textbooks and course resources
We automatically order compulsory and recommended textbooks for your courses.
If you need other items for your course, let us know. We buy ebooks whenever available.
Print textbooks
Textbooks are no longer held in the short loans collection. If you need an item to be available to students for a short duration (for example, for a film screening or campus block course, or an item the library does not hold), please email Library@massey.ac.nz with the item, the campus library you need it to be held at, and course details. Material will be kept in the short loans collection and may be borrowed by students for two hours at a time.
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).
Contact a subject or Māori services librarian
We’re here to help you with your research or teaching. Contact a subject or Māori services librarian by email or book an appointment.