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Study Smart - Otago Business School: Getting Started

Information including links to resources and services to support your studies

ID CARD

In the Library your ID card is needed to:

  • check out or renew books
  • hold funds to pay for printing / photocopying

 

 

 

 

 

 

You need your username (printed on your ID card) and your password to:

  • access some electronic resources e.g. eBooks
  • access databases off-campus
  • book group study rooms
  • access your Library account so you can renew books, make and cancel requests
  • log in to the Interloan service

ACADEMIC SUPPORT

Check out the resources at the Student Learning Development website.

This website has links to advice and information (including tip sheets) about:

Student Learning Development also run workshops.

GROUP STUDY ROOMS

All Dunedin campus libraries (except Hocken Collections) have group study rooms. Because they are extremely popular places, an online booking system is used...
 
All the rooms are:
  • wireless 
  • booked for 1 or 2 or 3 hours
  • have either a whiteboard or a smartboard 

LIBRARY LOCATIONS AND HOURS

You are welcome to use any of the 6 libraries on campus:

  • Central Library (Commerce and Humanities)
  • Hocken Collections (New Zealand)
  • Law Library
  • Health Sciences Library
  • Robertson Library (Education)
  • Science Library
The libraries are located across the campus.
Check the open hours of each library.

RESERVE

Reserve provides access to items in high demand, such as your textbooks. Every Library has its own Reserve collection.  Items on Reserve are issued for up to 2 hours at a time.

To search for items on Reserve:

  1. Click Reserve (this link is on the Library homepage, under the search box)
  2. Enter your course code
  3. Click Search

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If the item on Reserve for your course is:

E-book - click on the title to open the item.

Book - check the 'Available in the Library' details to see which Library holds it and the call number 

(call number = the code on the spine of the book that is used to locate it on the shelf).

 

If your lecturer has assigned articles for you to read, links to these can be found on eReserve in Blackboard.

MY ACCOUNT

My Library Account can be accessed from the Library homepage or Library Search | Ketu. 

Sign in in to 'My Library Account' with your username and password to see:

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  • which items you have checked out
  • when items are due to be returned
  • what overdue fines you have
  • if you have any blocks on your record, e.g. owe more than $30 in fines

When you are signed into 'My Library Account', you can renew items you have out.