Podcasts @ Your Library - South Wing Level 1

On this floor you will find many of the Library’s printed journals as well as several other significant collections. These include the Microform Collection, the Chinese, Japanese, Korean Collection and the Australian Bureau of Statistics Collection in printed format.

If you are not standing in the foyer area of this floor, please pause your tour now and make your way there. In the foyer of South Wing Level 1, note the lift and the stairs on your left and toilets to your right. Note also the external door leading to Sir Walter’s Café. There is another entrance to the Café on Learning Common North Wing Level 2.

Still in the foyer, look at the room opposite the lift. This is E-Library South Wing Level 1, a Silent Lab. Here you can access Murdoch University web sites, the Library Catalogue, email, the Internet and word processing. These computers require login and can only be used by Murdoch staff and students. This E-Library is sometimes also used for Library training classes. We will place a notice on the door when this happens.

Now walk through the glass doors into level 1, on your way noting floor plans on your left. As a courtesy to other library users, remember to switch your mobile phone to silent on all floors of the Library. Calls may be taken in the stairwells. Note also that bottled water may be brought onto this floor.

Pause just inside the entrance. Here you will see a small group of computers. These can be used for accessing the Library Catalogue and databases but not for word processing. Still just inside the entrance, look to the left and note the Sorting Shelves. Books used on this floor should be returned here so other students can find them and attendants can sort prior to shelving.

Now look up at the sign pointing to the Chinese Japanese Korean Collection (known as the CJK Collection). Walk forward and look at where this arrow is pointing but don’t go into the collection. Pause at this point and look around at the journals on this floor. These are the journals for Social Sciences, Humanities and Education, Politics, Psychology, Computing, Criminology, Environmental Science, Economics and Commerce. Journals are not able to be borrowed. Please be aware that they represent only a small fraction of the journals subscribed to by the Library. Most are available electronically from Library databases and the Catalogue.

Now look to your left. You should be outside the Group Study Room. Walk forward, noting the photocopiers as you pass. The next room to your left holds the less heavily used books in the Student Learning Collection. They are all listed in the catalogue and are able to be borrowed. Still keeping to your left continue walking until you get to the Library’s Training Lab. Over the course of your degree you will probably come here for various information skills training classes.

Moving forward, and still on your left, is the Library’s Microform Collections & Viewing Room. Walk in. Significant research collections on microfiche and film are held here, as well as collections of law journals and back issues of newspapers in microform. Please note that many newspapers can now be accessed electronically from databases on the Library web pages. Where available, printed guides accompany the various collections. Reader/Printers are located against the wall adjacent to the windows, together with booking sheets and instructions for use. Walk out of the room. Turn left, then with your back to the Microform room, look towards the green cabinets at the end of this floor. These hold Maps, Charts and Kits.

Lockable Postgraduate Study Carrels are located along the back wall. Eligible postgraduate students may apply for one of these. For further information please see staff at the Reference Desk.

Still facing the Map cabinets walk straight ahead towards the Exit sign above the back stairs, but stop at the entrance to the aisle between the journals. Note that the doorway to the back stairs will not only give you access to other floors on the South Wing, but will also provide access to the Emergency Exit.

Now go down the central aisle between the journals. Look to the left to see the start of the oversize journal collection with the location prefix JZ. As you walk forward note study tables amongst the shelves and individual study desks around the walls. Move past the first group of tables to the Government Journal Collection all with the location prefix GJ.

Keep walking forward past more study tables until you get to a bank of individual study desks and green metal filing cabinets. This is the start of the Australian Bureau of Statistics Collection (ABS) prefixed by the location symbol GR. Remember that most of the current ABS material is now available electronically from the Library web pages.

Continue to walk forward and we are back to the Chinese Japanese Korean Collection as indicated by the CJK location symbols on the shelves. Walk through to the foyer of South Wing Level 1. Your tour of this floor ends here.