As a Monash student, engaging with the Library and the programs we offer through your academic units will hopefully mean that you are more likely to achieve higher grades. Indeed, 74% of students who used the Library achieved at least a Distinction average, according to results of our 2017 Library user survey.
Not only will your grades improve, but you'll be less stressed while you're working on assignments or studying, too, if you can find a conducive spot in one of our libraries, which offer many desks, areas, computers, and bookable rooms for your use.
Today, finding yourself in a library no longer just refers to the physical spaces. At Monash, our digital and online resources mean that you can find relevant material wherever you are, whenever you need it. From electronic databases for researching your topic to our well-used Research and Learning Online for tutorials on developing study, research and writing skills, you can find yourself in the virtual library.
Of course, face-to-face interaction with our expert staff is still as important as ever. At the Research and Learning Point in each of our libraries, students are able to seek advice on how to improve their study skills or approach an assignment.
Sarah, a second year Arts/Law student at Monash, has thanked the Law Library learning skills advisers and the librarians who helped her a lot with her very first law assignment. Sarah feels that such a resource should be valued by all students.
“The Library staff were very patient, friendly and communicative, which I found to be a massive relief during the stressful assignment period, and they were easily able to clarify my endless questions and directed me in the right direction regarding essay structure and referencing/citations.”
A student on exchange from South America says that Caulfield Library is her favourite resource at this university; the Library’s resources and classes helped her to settle in and know what to do now that she is here.
An Honours student in the department of Art, Design and Architecture (MADA), says that the support and encouragement she has received from the subject librarian (“an exceptional staff member and advocate for thinking”) is such that her friends at another university are applying to do their honours at Monash.
Positive feedback has also been received from one of several PhD students who were feeling "under the pump"; sessions on Copyright, data collection and taxonomy, and individual advice from their Arts subject librarian on what kind of software might best suit their research purposes, helped this student to feel positive and hopeful that their research outcomes will be successful.
And what about this well-written piece by another PhD student about what libraries and books mean to him? It became part of the #PhDshelfie movement.
We would love to hear from you about your favourite study spot in the Library or your story about the best thing that has happened in the Library.
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