Partnerships for the Goals
“To revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.” [1]
Local and global partnerships help to mobilise resources and address challenges related to sustainable development. There is value in coming together to find solutions. Australian university libraries form partnerships and work collaboratively to achieve strategic priorities and promote common interests. UniSQ Library actively participates in many initatives to develop services that support student learning, research, and teaching. UniSQ Library is a member institution of the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) which provides a space for collaboration and cooperative activity, nationally and internationally. This partnership helps to advance university library’s essential contributions to higher education, enabling student and research successes.
CAUL ‘Enabling A Modern Curriculum’ Partnership
Fiona Salisbury (Director of the CAUL Enabling a Modern Curriculum Program); Tahnee Pearce (UniSQ Library Associate Director, Content)
Fiona Salisbury and Tahnee Pearce discuss with Emilia Bell how taking a national and collaborative approach with the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) Open Educational Resource (OER) Collective is working collaboratively to achieve greater equity and access in education.
Interlibrary loan network
Elizabeth Firman (Manager, Client Support)
UniSQ Library is a long standing member of the Australian interlibrary loan network which allows researchers and staff to request items held in Library collections across Australia and New Zealand. This access to information held by other libraries significantly improves the research capabilities and knowledge of all who participate.
In July 2022, UniSQ Library went live with an expansion of this traditional interlibrary loan service to offer improved and faster access to journal articles and book sections.
This new service offers UniSQ students and staff access to information sourced from over 800 libraries worldwide, including world-renowned university libraries. It offers faster turnaround time (usually within 24 hours), and for the first time UniSQ undergraduate students are also eligible to place requests for digital material not held by UniSQ. In return, UniSQ Library scans and supplies information from our collection to fill requests received from libraries around the word.
This extension to the interlibrary loan service ensures UniSQ students are connected to a wider range of information sources and can access them in an easy, cost-free and timely way.
- United Nations. (n.d.). Partnerships: Why they matter. https://web.archive.org/web/20220727033234/https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/17_Why-It-Matters-2020.pdf ↵
- (2021). The evolution of the Open Textbook Initiative. Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association, 70(2): 194-212. https://doi.org/10.1080/24750158.2021.1883819 ↵
