Organisational structure

The UQ Library is divided into five Services:

View our Organisational chart (101.17 KB), or view our Services chart (116.14 KB).

The UQ Library is made up of 15 branch libraries located across the University's campuses, hospitals and research stations:

Biological Sciences Library
Dorothy Hill Engineering and Sciences Library
UQ Gatton Library
Health Sciences Libraries
Herston Health Sciences Library
- UQ/Mater McAuley
- UQ/Princess Alexandra Hospital
- PACE Health Sciences Library
- Dentistry Library
- Rural Clinical Division
Architecture and Music Library
Fryer Library
Graduate Economics and Business Library
UQ Ipswich Library
Social Sciences and Humanities Library
Walter Harrison Law Library

Services to support teaching and learning

The Library provides a high-quality environment on campus that incorporates learning spaces, research infrastructure, and technology to support independent learning and peer-interaction. In developing modern learning spaces and services, the Library has applied research into student information-seeking behaviour, pedagogy, and new media.

The Library supports student learning and discovery by providing access to scholarly information resources and by fostering the knowledge and critical skills required to discover and use these resources effectively. The Library's objective is to provide tools and deliver training that best meet a student's needs and enrich their learning experience. The Library develops and adopts new technologies to enhance the research process. It encourages and acknowledges student research and academic achievement with the annual Library Excellence Award. Librarians and other library staff are an important source of support for UQ students while they are at University. They provide support for students in-person and online and they are available for student consultation, by appointment. The Library embraces social media and new technologies to communicate with students.

The Library's centralised Teaching and Learning Service co-ordinates and delivers services across all the libraries at the St Lucia campus. It is responsible for library materials circulation, document delivery requests, course materials provision, and general library information skills training for students.

Services to support research

Increasingly academics and researchers seek access to scholarly information in electronic format. To support UQ research the Library provides extensive print collections and a vast range of digital materials including substantial back-runs of journals, archival material and electronic books, as well as online exhibitions of material from its own collections.

The Library's Research Information Service provides support to researchers through all stages of their research lifecycle from discovery to gathering, creating and sharing the output of their research. Librarians play a vital role in supporting research at UQ. Librarians in the Research Information Service are information specialists, structured in teams that support three clusters: Arts, Business and Social Sciences; Engineering and Physical Sciences; and Life Sciences.

Scholarly communication is an important part of research. The Library supports the creation, evaluation, dissemination and preservation of research and scholarly writings.
Library staff in the Scholarly Publishing and Digitisation Service specialise in research data management, research publications reporting and evaluation and bibliometrics. Together with librarians in the Research Information Service they can provide researchers with advice on these areas.

The Library has developed and manages UQ eSpace, the University's institutional repository.

UQ eSpace stores, manages and makes available the digital research outputs produced by, or to support, University of Queensland researchers. It is harvested by Australian Research Online as well as by search engines such as Google and Google Scholar.

UQ eSpace provides access to a wide range of material, including scholarly publications, multimedia, image collections and 'grey' literature such as working papers and technical reports.

UQ eSpace is an open access repository that was originally set up to showcase the output of UQ researchers, supporting the open access principle that the published output of academic and scientific research should be available, without charge, to everyone. While still supporting this principle, UQ eSpace has gradually taken on the additional role of being of a central collection point for the official research outputs of UQ academics. As a result, UQ eSpace is now central to: