Monash University Library Blog

Casa de las Américas - an insight into Cuban life

Clichés about Cuba abound: cigars, vintage American cars and, of course, the music. However, much less is known about daily life in the...

Are you a student of Japanese culture and history? Subject Librarian Ayako Hatta introduces us to books held at Monash describing and illu...

Associate Professor Martin Burd, from the Monash School of Biological Science, has written this article for our blog celebrating the annive...

You can see biological and medical procedures being demonstrated while reading about the experiments, says subject librarian Jennifer Kai...

Burning the midnight oil as you prepare for exams? Get more study done, with late night opening at Matheson Library. But remember to balance...

Five hundred years ago, on October 31, 1517, Martin Luther posted the 95 theses to a church door in Wittenberg. This month we celebrate or ...

It’s Week 12, and exams are just around the corner! The good news is, you’ve still got time to get into a great revision routine before Oc...

With the scheduled closure of the Law Building over summer, the Library has made alternate arrangements to ensure Law Library users will con...

The Matheson Library has an amazing collection of Chinese periodicals dating to the 1950s. Xiaoju Liu, subject librarian for Chinese studi...

Academic integrity is one of the key skills you need to develop during your university studies. This includes acknowledging the work of oth...

Inspired by the #PhDshelfie movement, we asked a few Monash PhD students to share their 'shelfies' and reflect on the books that h...

Inspired by the #PhDshelfie movement, we asked a few Monash PhD students to share their 'shelfies' and reflect on the books that ...

The internet has had a significant impact on the way that information is disseminated and used, allowing researchers to search more bro...

When researching projects, engineering students and researchers can be confronted with a deluge of information which may often be irrelevant...

Do you ever receive assignments back with the comment: “your essay is too descriptive” or “more critical analysis needed”? Learning Skill...