Library
About the Library
The EIA Library is designed to provide a learning environment that enables and supports teachers’ and students’ teaching, learning and research needs. A range of relevant resources in a variety of formats are provided to support the successful completion of courses offered at Edvantage Institute Australia (EIA).
Collections
The general collection contains all the required textbooks, along with additional references that are recommended for each course taught at EIA. An Academic and Career support collection is included to empower students to succeed both at EIA. Support materials for the international students’ study of the English language are also provided. Course relevant magazines and daily newspapers are provided to ensure that students’ and teachers’ knowledge is current regarding their field of study and international events.
The Library collection includes items in the Course Reserve section with a Short Loan of 3 hours, which must be used only in the library, to ensure that the core texts are always available. There are also items within the collection with a Short Loan of 3 and 7 days, so that key texts are available to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to use the texts.
The main collection, including fiction and non-fiction, is available for a three-week loan with two renewals.
Contact the Library
If you are experiencing difficulty, or wish to discuss or appeal a fee, or require assistance with renewing or reserving an item, please contact the Library via one of these methods below:
Email: Library@eia.edu.au
In Person: Level 1, 338 Queens Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
Communications: All communications from the Library to you will be via the email address you have provided to the Library or student services. If you are not receiving emails, when you think that you should, please check that we have your current and most used email address.
Library FAQs
Please see the Frequently Asked Questions answers below. If you have a question you would like answered, please email Library@eia.edu.au
The EIA Library is open 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday during school term.
If you need a library outside these hours, please use the State Library Victoria on the corner of Swanston and La Trobe Street. They are open 10am – 9pm Monday to Thursday and 10am – 6pm Friday – Sunday. Also, the Melbourne City Library at 253 Flinders Lane, Melbourne is open 8am – 8pm Monday to Thursday, 8am – 6pm on Friday and 10am – 5pm Saturday and 12 – 5pm Sunday.
Any variation to these open hours will be announced on EIA webpage
Copyright is a form of intellectual property that protects a person’s creative skills and labour. In Australia, copyright law is governed by the Copyright Act 1968 (the Act), and the Act is amended from time to time to keep the law up to date. Material protected by copyright includes but is not limited to:
- Literary works such as books, journal articles, novels, reports;
- Computer programs;
- Compilations such as databases;
- Sound recordings such as recordings of music or words;
- Cinematograph films such as feature films, television programs and commercials and
- Artistic works such as photographs, maps, plans and paintings.
All students conducting their own research can rely on provisions in the Australian Copyright Act 1968 called “Fair Dealing for the purposes of research or study” meaning that you can copy the following:
- one article from a periodical publication (e.g.: journal) or more than one article from the same issue if they relate to the “same research or course of study”;
- one chapter (or 10% of the pages) of a literary, dramatic or musical work (e.g.: book, play or sheet music);
- 10% of the number of other types of works and subject matter, such as audio-visual material, for study purposes (e.g.: clips from films).
- Fair dealing for research or study allows you to make use of a copyright work for your assessment. It will not cover you if you intend to publish or communicate the work to the public (e.g.: put it on a website).
** DO NOT PHOTOCOPY WHOLE TEXTBOOKS **
For more information, visit the Australian Copyright Council website at: http://www.copyright.org.au/
Online resources are available for all EIA staff and students. For information on how to access these resources please see the Databases, Journal Articles, eBooks and Other Online Resources link below.
ProQuest Databases, Journal Articles, eBooks and Other Online Resources.pdf
Students will have access to EIA’s customised Moodle site. Moodle is an online Learning Management System (LMS). Moodle is an ideal education integrated system providing the e-learning tool. Through Moodle, the Proquest journal database can be access, and text book required by units can be found, which means lecturers, tutors and student can access the related resource at any time, anywhere.
If the EIA Library is not open when you need a library, please see the Other Libraries information below for both physical and electronic library services.
EIA is committed to assisting staff and students to ensure that there is a clear understanding of what plagiarism is and how to avoid it by referencing correctly.