About the Library

About the Library

Learn about our vision, core purpose and service principles, and meet our executive and management teams.

There are four Library sites in Melbourne and two Library sites in Vietnam. There is a Makerspace at the City campus and the RMIT University Archives are at our Bundoora campus. Each Library provides a range of study environments, including flexible group study areas and silent individual study spaces. All our libraries have extensive computer facilities, wi-fi access and long opening hours.

Library Executive

David Howard - Executive Director, Library Services, david.howard3@rmit.edu.au

Anne Lennox - Associate Director (Learning, Teaching and Research), anne.lennox@rmit.edu.au

Arlene O’Sullivan - Associate Director (Collections), arlene.osullivan@rmit.edu.au

Jack Dunstan - Associate Director (Quality and Engagement), jack.dunstan@rmit.edu.au

Rex Steiner - Senior Manager Library Services (Vietnam), rex.steiner@rmit.edu.vn

Library Management (Melbourne)

Executive Director, Library Services: David Howard

Library Operations

Business Partners

Consult your Business Partner on library services and strategic opportunities for collaboration with the Library.

Adobe Creative Campus

Director, Adobe Creative Campus: Clare Dyson, clare.dyson@rmit.edu.au

Indigenous Participation and Partnerships

Director, Indigenous Participation and Partnerships: Cathy Doe, cathy.doe@rmit.edu.au

Provides strategic advice and support to the Library Executive and Senior Leadership team, focusing on the success of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, and ensuring inclusivity in our library spaces, services, and collections.

Library Services (Melbourne)

Collections team

Associate Director, Collections: Arlene O'Sullivan

Learning, Teaching and Research team

Associate Director, Learning, Teaching and Research: Anne Lennox

Quality and Engagement team

Associate Director, Quality and Engagement: Jack Dunstan

Library Services (Vietnam)

Associate Director, Library Services (Vietnam): Rex Steiner

Our Vision, core purpose and service principles

Vision

  • We will be dynamic and innovative in the co-creation of knowledge.
  • We will lead where required, partner as needed and collaborate with all those who seek to build academic success for our students and impact for our researchers.
  • We will think globally and act bravely in our delivery of quality information, learning and research services.
  • We will put our students and staff at the centre of everything we do.

Core purpose and service principles

We shape the education and research experience, transforming how students and staff discover, access, use and create knowledge.

  • We will help the University deliver its goals
  • We will be a nexus for inspiration, learning and collaboration
  • We will offer a global experience
  • We take the Library to our users
  • Our solutions will be sustainable, scalable and replicable
  • We will put the scholar at the centre
  • Our services and collections will be institutionally and culturally fit for purpose
  • We will be easy to use
  • We will invest in our people. They are the key to our success.
Library core purpose and service principles infographic. RMIT University Library core purpose and service principles
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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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