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Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Stephen Parker officially opened the Library and Learning Commons on the Berwick campus last week. He thanked Pro Vice-Chancellor and Academic Director Professor Phillip Steele and Berwick staff for volunteering to be the first campus of Monash University to develop a learning commons. He noted that this style of facility is recognised as being best practice in the delivery of services to students in the higher education sector. Professor Steele congratulated the many staff involved in funding and planning the project and then seeing it through to completion. About 60 Monash staff attended the opening. External guests included six IT coordinators or librarians from local secondary schools and two representatives from the architects Woods Bagot.

International students celebrated their new lounge last week with a special international food day. President of the Berwick International Students Association (BISA) Andrea Zhang (pictured) said the lounge was a great place for international students to meet others and to feel at home on the Berwick campus. The new lounge is next to the bookshop on the ground floor of 902.

The coordinator of the department of Marketing at Berwick Mike Willis reports that the department now has seven full-time staff on campus, with an eighth staff member about to arrive from Hong Kong City University. "He’s a real catch for our campus," Mike said. "We will also advertise for an aspro (again) soon, and all of this is a real change from the days when we seemed to have just too few staff! We also now have two PhD students at Berwick in Marketing, and this too is a sign of the consolidation of the department on this campus."

The Divisional Director’s Office of Facilities and Services will be relocating from Berwick to the Clayton campus next weekend. All Berwick staff are invited for a drink to farewell Stephen Davey, Diana Bracegirdle, Chris Flynn, Jill McLachlan, Brian Treloar and Laurie Cuttiford, in Room 203, Building 901 this Thursday 17th May from 4.30pm.

The campus office of Facilities and Services will remain at Berwick.

Emeritus Professor Peter Fitzroy in the Faculty of Business and Economics has asked Betty Weiler to find out if anyone at the Berwick campus has an interest and willingness to serve on an advisory board to the Western Port Seagrass Partnership.  The partnership is fully independent of government and has a strong community base. It was established for efforts to understand, protect and restore the ecosystems of Western port and its seagrass communities.

The Chairman of the Board, Roger James, would be delighted to hear from anyone at Monash Berwick who would like to contribute on a volunteer basis. If you are interested or know someone who might like to take on this role, please phone Betty Weiler’s office on extn 47104 for the contact details.

The fifth Tourism Research Unit (TRU) seminar will be held at Monash University's Berwick Campus on Thursday 8 June 2006 between 9.30 am and 3 pm. It will showcase current tourism research projects conducted by six Monash University staff and research students, at various stages of design and implementation, to gain feedback and foster scholarly debate. The format will allow time for questions and discussion. Topics include seasonality in the tourism industry, brand identity in rural tourism destinations and representations of international backpackers in the Australian media over time.

For further information, see the TRU website.

RSVP for catering purposes to Annita Allman by June 1 2006 on enquiries.TRU@buseco.monash.edu.au or phone Annita on 9904 7224 if you wish to attend. A light lunch and morning tea will be provided.

World's Greatest Shave on Thursday

Six Berwick staff are on the list to be shaved if sufficient funds are raised for the Leukaemia Foundation in the MUBS Lounge this Thursday lunchtime.  Tim Zapart and James Sofra will be shaved at the $3000 mark, Karyn Lemon and Paul Swan for $3500 and Andrea Howell and Pieter Van Dijk at the $4000 mark.  There are up to 25 others who will be shaved, coloured or waxed.  Come and give your donation to this very worthy cause and see what happens!

Most of the online tutorials available from the site formerly known as the Virtual Librarian are no longer being updated while a usability study is conducted.

However, two of the most popular online tutorials continue to be currently available:

Subject Guides available for students

Online subject guides bring together a range of relevant library subscribed and other resources for a specific subject. Students will find these useful for locating information for their assignments.

International students: Apply in June to graduate in December

International Students Please Note: If you are completing your degree in semester 2 this year and wish to graduate at the 14 December International Ceremony at Clayton, you must submit your application no later than 30 June 2006. There will be no In Absentia graduands at this ceremony. Get your application form here.

Wine sales at Berwick

Have you bought your souvenir bottles of the 10th Anniversary commemorative wine yet?  If you are at Berwick, pay at the Service Centre then pick up your order from the Campus Manager's Office, Room 235 in 901.  Further details and internet orders visit the 10th Anniversary Commemorative Wine page.

Lost Property

Have you lost property on campus during semester 1?  Even if you asked at the time it might be worth inquiring again at the Service Centre on the ground floor foyer of building 901. There are some unclaimed items which will be disposed of at the end of this semester. 

Berwick Campus News is published fortnightly with a weekly notices bulletin as required.

Notices deadline: 12 noon every Friday. Please send contributions to Kelly Garland-Gobbi

Editor: Katherine Lock.

Previous issues available here