The Creswick Library supports the teaching, learning and research activities of the School of Forest and Ecosystem Science and the wider University community.

It is located at the Creswick Campus of the Faculty of Land and Food Resources in Water Street Creswick. 

Its book, periodical and audio-visual collections cover the areas of forest and plantation hydrology, community forestry, fire ecology and management, forest industries and wood products, forests climate change and greenhouse research, native forest ecology and restoration, tree developmental biology and forest biotechnology, tree ecophysiology and tree plantations and health.

Members of the general public are welcome to come into the library and use the resources and facilities.

Staff contacts

Phone: 03 5321 4115
Fax: 03 5321 4278

General enquiries: creswick-lib@unimelb.edu.au

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Creswick collections

Books

Periodical

Catalogue location code: UniM Cres P

The periodical collection includes a large range of national and international journals on forestry and related disciplines in both print and electronic form. All journal titles can be accessed through the Library Catalogue. Databases which index the contents of the journals can be found at the Key resources in forestry web page.

Reserve

Audio-visual

Catalogue location code: UniM Cres AV

The audiovisual collection consists of videos, tapes and slides which are 28 day renewable loan. All these resources can be accessed through the Library Catalogue

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Information skills

Library staff can arrange Information Skills courses and orientation courses at any time for staff and students.

Undergraduates

Classes held at the beginning of first semester cover basic library skills such as catalogue use, online database and effective internet searching.

Students are taken on an orientation tour of the library and receive information on how to access the entire University of Melbourne Library resources.

Extra classes or individual instruction to cover other information skills requirements is available on request.  These classes involve using specific Forestry related on-line databases, internet searching, etc Contact Library Staff

Staff and Postgraduates

Staff and Postgraduate students can request classes or individual instruction. Contact Library Staff

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Photocopying facilities

A photocopier is situated in Student Computer Lab 1, which is adjacent to the library.  Copies are 10 cents for A4 sheets and 20 cents for A3.  Scanning facilities are also available in the student computer labs.

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