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 Dentistry Library | |
The Dentistry Library is one of 13 branch libraries of Queensland Library and provides resources and services to support the teaching, learning and research needs of staff and students in the School of Dentistry and the continuing education needs of members of the Australian Dental Association, Queensland Branch (ADA (Q)).
The Dentistry Library began in 1936 with a collection of books housed in a room adjacent to the Dean's office and under his supervision. In 1944 the collection was moved into a small room on the top floor of the Dental Hospital and the first Librarian, Margaret Waugh, was employed. Fifty years later a section of the students' common room on level 1 of the Clinical Building was converted into a purpose-built facility for the Library and this is where it has remained.
The Dentistry Library has always enjoyed the support of the Dentistry Alumni and the Australian Dental Association, Queensland Branch. The first computer workstations were purchased with the assistance of the Dentistry Alumni and the ADA (Q) continues to contribute to the development of the collection.
The collection of the Dentistry Library provides teaching, learning and research materials in a wide variety of formats for onsite access, use and loan. The collection includes:
- Over 5000 books
- 145 current journal subscriptions
- Over 200 videos.
Links to electronic resources are provided via the Library's website. These include over 51,000 eJournals, almost 400,000 eBooks, and over 900 databases. Access to the global body of information is available through the internet.
Assistance in the use of information resources focuses on the specific needs of its clients.
There are 30 public-access computers throughout the Dentistry Library and the KF Adkins Learning Centre. These provide access to:
- Library website
- Email
- Internet
- Networked printing and copying
- Online course materials
- Software - Word, Powerpoint, Excel and Access
- UQ network.
The Dentistry Library collections are complemented by the collections at the three hospital libraries, the Rural Clinical Divisions and the Biological Sciences Library:
Contact Us
- General Enquiries
- Email: deni@library.uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 3365 8094
- Loans Enquiries
- Email: circ@library.uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 3365 8094
- Fax +61 7 3365 8188
- Building
- Dental Hospital
- Postal address
- Dentistry Library,
Dental School, 200 Turbot St, Brisbane QLD 4000
Executive Manager, Biological and Health Sciences Library Service
- (located in Biological Sciences Library)
Heather Todd
Email: h.todd@library.uq.edu.au
Phone: 3346 4394
Manager, Health Sciences Library Service
- (located in Herston Health Sciences Library)
Lisa Kruesi
Email: l.kruesi@library.uq.edu.au
Phone: 3365 5354
Manager, Dentistry Library
- Ms Kathy Hibberd
Email: k.hibberd@library.uq.edu.au
Phone: 336 58134
Library Assistant
- Thelma Campbell
Email: t.campbell@library.uq.edu.au
Phone: 3365 8094
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All library facilities are located on level 1 of the Clinical Building in the School of Dentistry in Turbot Street, Brisbane.
Facilities include a combined loans and information desk; book and journal collections; recently received books and journals display area; computers for access to the UQ network, Internet, Email, online course materials and software such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Access; printing and photocopying services, and audiovisual facilities.
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Semester Opening Hours
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9am - 5.30pm |
9am - 5.30pm |
9am - 7pm |
9am - 5pm |
9am - 5pm |
12noon - 5pm |
Closed |
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For recorded opening hours - telephone (07) 3365 6703. |
- These hours vary during the July vacation and the Summer semester period.
- Current opening hours are available from the Library website.
The book return chute is located outside the entrance to the Dentistry Library and is accessible when the Clinical Building is open.
The Dentistry Library provides 30 computers in total for accessing the Library website including the catalogue, databases, and the internet. Word processing and email facilities are also available. The KF Adkins Learning Centre, adjacent to the Library, contains 14 public computers. These are for general internet and library use and also for computer-assisted learning with virtual microscopy.
There are individual and group study areas available in the Dentistry Library including discussion areas for group study and individual study carrels.
Over 5,000 books and 145 current journal subscriptions are held in the Dentistry Library.
The strengths of the Dentistry Library are in general dentistry, dental materials, endodontics, oral health, oral pathology, orthodontics, paediatric dentistry, periodontics, prothodontics, oral and maxillofacial surgery and the history of dentistry.
For further information, see the Dentistry Library's Collection Development Policy.
University of Queensland staff and students may suggest items to be added to the Library's collection.
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