Welcome new students and welcome back to returning students.

The Gatton Library has a dedicated page on the library's website, with information on services, hours and contact details - http://www.library.uq.edu.au/locations/uq-gatton-library.

For a limited time, the University is trialling 'Grammarly', an automated grammar and plagiarism checker.

Once you register with the site, you can upload a document to be checked. You can also download a Microsoft Office add-in, which will then appear as a toolbar in Word.

With both methods, you need to be online to sign in and get the feedback report.

For more information and links, go to http://student.eait.uq.edu.au/software/grammarly/.

The library is participating in an international online survey into journal use and reading patterns.

All staff and students are encouraged to take part.

It should only take five minutes to complete and it runs until May 11.

Click here for more information and to access the survey.

For tips on how to use (and exploit) the library's website, come to the 'Getting Started' training session.

No need to book. Just show up!

Ask I.T. supports students in their use of I.T. for university work. This includes help connecting mobile devices to the university's wireless network, eduroam and student account issues such as passwords. You can find out more about the services Ask I.T. provides on the website.

Gatton's Ask I.T. Help Desk is located on the lower level of the library, near the Printer and during semester help is available from 10am to 4pm.

The UQ Gatton Library will be closed on Tuesday, 10 January. The Queensland government has declared a special holiday for the Lockyer Valley Region on that day as it is the first anniversary of the 2011 floods.

Would you believe it's almost time for graduation?

If you are about to graduate, UQ has a new Graduations' website that can give you all the important details. Answers to questions about eligibility, ceremony dates and times, ticket information, directions to the ceremony, order of events, and photographs can be found on the Graduations' website.

Don't forget to return all your Library items before you leave. One of the graduating criteria is that:

Blackboard Mobile is designed to help you get more out of your courses, making a range of course materials available on your iDevice, Android, Palm or Blackberry.

Are you missing anything?

The Library has a collection of lost property looking for its rightful owner. The collection includes USBs, headphones, lab coats, pencil cases and much more.

So if you have misplaced anything, why don't you drop into the Library and check to see if your missing item is in our collection?

From 15 July 2011, the Graduate School will be offering complimentary bus passes for research students who are based at Gatton to allow them to travel to the St Lucia campus for Graduate School Skills Training and Graduate Student Week activities.

This pilot initiative has been introduced to encourage multi-disciplinary collaboration and to assist Gatton students in accessing a broader range of training activities held at St Lucia.