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School of Geosciences1. The schoolThe Faculty of Science is made up of six schools and several faculty centres, some of which are cross-faculty, offering a diverse range of disciplines in undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Ten departments from other faculties, primarily the Faculty of Medicine, contribute to science teaching at all levels. There are approximately 3600 students in the Faculty of Science, including over 304 postgraduates, and an academic staff of 295 The faculty conducts undergraduate and postgraduate studies on the Clayton, Gippsland and Peninsula campuses in Australia and at Monash Malaysia. The schools within the faculty are: Applied Sciences and Engineering; Biological Sciences; Chemistry; Geosciences; Mathematical Sciences; and Physics. The School of Applied Sciences and Engineering operates on the Gippsland and Peninsula campuses and offers studies in applied biology, applied chemistry, mathematics and modelling, and resource and environmental management. Amendment history The School of Geosciences is located at and teaches on the Clayton Campus. The school offers courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level in geology, geochemistry, geophysics, environmental geoscience, computational geoscience and palaeontology. Research interests within the school include economic geology, environmental geoscience, geochemistry, hydrogeology, hydrothermal geochemistry, geodynamics, geophysics, igneous petrology, metamorphic petrology, palaeontology, sedimentary geology, structural geology, tectonics and volcanology. The school is a member of the Victorian Institute of Earth and Planetary Sciences (VIEPS), a cooperative education and research institution, in conjunction with the School of Earth Sciences, La Trobe University and the School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne. As a member of VIEPS it is part of the National Geoscience Teaching Network (NGTH) initiative which provides world-class education and training for students and professionals in the mining industry. The school is linked to the Australian Crustal Research Centre, which is a research centre of the Faculty of Science. The Centre is concerned with research into the structural and tectonic evolution of the Earth's crust, with a particular focus on orogeny. More information about:
2. General policy statementThe Collection Development Policy covers printed books and journals, electronic resources, multimedia and any other formats acquired for the Library's collection. The Policy is regularly monitored to ensure that the selection and acquisition of new resources supports the teaching and research needs of the faculties and their departments. While every effort is made to meet known information needs some gaps in the collection may develop which need attention, and suggestions to address them are welcome. This may be done through liaison with library staff or, for individual titles, using the recommendation form at lib.monash.edu.au/forms/acquisition-request.doc To ensure that the library provides collection materials to support new courses and subjects, completion of a Library Impact Statement lib.monash.edu.au/forms/impact.doc is required. When establishing new research directions staff are encouraged to liaise with the library about the provision of supporting information resources. All titles listed as prescribed or recommended reading for teaching subjects are acquired as high priority and in multiple copies depending on student enrolment numbers. This is particularly necessary for undergraduate students, who need access to adequate resources on their home campus. Electronic versions of these texts are also provided where possible, so that access is more readily available regardless of location and number of copies held. The inter-campus loan and photocopy services for undergraduates further support the needs of those students. However, the library cannot acquire every item that could conceivably be needed by Monash staff or students. The reciprocal borrowing scheme enables Monash library users to borrow from other university libraries. Post-graduates and staff may also use the document delivery service to obtain books and articles from other libraries in Australia and overseas. 3. The library's collectiona. LocationResources purchased by the School of Geosciences are located in the Hargrave-Andrew Library on the Clayton campus. The School of Chemistry and the School of Applied Sciences and Engineering (both Faculty of Science) and the School of Geography and Environmental Science (Faculty of Arts) also collect some material of interest in the earth sciences, for example in the areas of crystallography (Chemistry) and environmental science. These materials are located in the Matheson Library on the Clayton campus and the Gippsland, Peninsula and Berwick libraries. Significant resources in the area of environment, ecology and physical geography are acquired for the School of Geography and Environmental Science (Faculty of Arts), and these are housed in the Matheson Library on the Clayton campus. The schools of Biological Sciences and Chemistry also purchase some material in this area. b. LanguageGenerally only material in the English language is acquired. c. Classification usedMaterial acquired for the School of Geosciences is classified using the Dewey Decimal Classification. d. FormatsNo format is excluded, although in practice the majority of the collection is monographs or serials, both print and electronic. e. Size of collectionMore than 200 journal titles of interest to the School are received, increasingly these are in electronic format. Most print titles are located in the Hargrave-Andrew Library. The library receives the reports and special publications of the Australian Geological Survey Organisation and the United States Geological Survey. f. Significant electronic resourcesThe library is purchasing increased numbers of resources in electronic format, including networked or internet databases, full-text resources, including suites of electronic journals and encyclopedias. There are some CD-ROM databases that are only accessible within a particular Branch library and also subscriptions to various databases and electronic collections including the available AGU journals. g. Coverage of the collectionThe library resources acquired for the school cover in general all areas of the Dewey Decimal Classification in the 550s, earth science, and 560, Palaeontology. The main areas of collecting for the School of Geosciences are detailed below
The collection is extensive in the areas of geology, hydrology and meteorology. Other areas well served are crystallography, economic geology and petrology. Palaeontology and its sub-disciplines are also well accommodated. 4. Other significant Monash collections or resourcesMap Collection : A valuable adjunct to the collections in the earth sciences is the Map Collection in the Hargrave-Andrew Library. The focus of this collection is on Australian geological material, topographic material and thematic material in the form of maps, atlases, gazetteers and reports. Some material is also collected from other parts of the world. (Map Collection site available lib.monash.edu.au/hal/maps/) SESTICON: As a member of SESTICON (South Eastern Scientific and Technical Information Consortium), Hargrave-Andrew cooperates with the member libraries covering this subject to consolidate and maximise holdings, thus providing the most effective access to information resources. Selected serial titles in areas of shared research interest are also circulated among the SESTICON libraries. (More infomation about SESTICON available lib.monash.edu.au/hal/sesticon.html) Monash Geosciences Collections and Library: the geological collection of the school contains an extensive and varied collection of over 50,000 samples of minerals, rocks and fossils, used for teaching, research and display purposes. The school also holds all the field notes and collected papers of P. Vickers-Rich and T.H. Rich with respect to major explorations in Australia on Mesozoic and Cenozoic fauna, amongst others. The school also has a large collection of Australian geological and topographical maps, aerial photographs and teaching videos. Collections Table(T = teaching level, R = research level)
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