Fraser Coast Library facilities
USQ and the Fraser Coast Regional Council have established a joint use library USQ/Public Library located at the Fraser Coast campus and offers:
Fraser Coast facilities
The Fraser Coast campus Library is located in the Fraser Coast Regional Library at Hervey Bay.
For enquiries related to USQ library issues, please see the friendly staff at the USQ Enquiries Desk, situated to the left of the library entry.
For additional information please contact the Library.
Study spaces
The Fraser Coast Library has a variety of different study spaces to suit your needs. This includes:
- individual/ quiet study
- group study zones.
Equipment housed in the Library
The Fraser Coast Library houses a variety of equipment for use by students, staff and members of the public. This includes:
- Library Catalogue and database computers
- Student computers
- Student printers and scanners (black and white)
- Workstation on wheels
- Photocopier
- Microfilm/fiche reader
- Video/DVD/CD players
- Data projectors.
Specific information for students on locations, hours of access, quotas and printing is available from Current Students Computing.
Equipment for loan
The Fraser Coast Library provides a variety of equipment for loan by students and staff. This includes:
- Digital video cameras
- Audiotape and CD players
- Headphones
- Microphones
- Digital voice recorders
- Scientific Calculators
- KeePad Interactive TurningPoint kits (Clickers)
- Digital note taker
- FM transmitter (for use by students with hearing aids)
Equipment can be borrowed via the Enquiries Desk.
Collections
Library resources are found in the following collections:
- Main Collection – range of resources across all subject areas
- Course Readings Collection – limited loan collection of texts and some recommended references
- Curriculum Collection – specialist resources for Education students; contains, children’s books, teacher resources, games, puppets, toys
- UQ Medical Collection – A specialised collection for students of the University of Queensland Rural Clinical School.
The Library also provides online access to a large collection of ebooks and ejournals which can be accessed via the Library Homepage.
Library use guidelines
