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Library support for teachers

Resources and services to help you build your course content, augment your teaching, and improve the learning experience of your students.

Do you need teaching support?

Contact the Library Teaching Support team for advice and support in these areas:

Reading lists; this includes activation, publishing and rollover, request for reading lists training, and troubleshooting advice.
Course support focused on guiding educators in the selection and integration of scholarly resources into the curriculum.
Professional development workshops for staff.
Curation of learning material resources on diverse voices and perspectives (e.g. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, non-Euro/Western centric, LGBQTI+) and Open Educational Resources (OER).
Copyright and digitisation of course materials.

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Reading lists

Find out how to create and manage reading lists in Canvas. The Reading List app allows teaching staff to create and manage a dynamic reading list that connects students directly with their course learning materials.

Support for your course

Discover how the Library can help you enhance the quality of course resources, making them copyright compliant and readily available to your students.

Support for your students

The Library offers a range of training and customised workshops to help your students develop the skills needed to become lifelong learners.

Guides and training

Explore guides, webinars and training opportunities offered by the Library Teaching Support team.

Copyright services

Our Copyright services will help ensure your learning and teaching activities at RMIT comply with copyright law. Includes consent forms.

Open education

Open education is a core element of open scholarship. It supports teachers and learners to access, use and adapt educational resources to best suit their needs.

Press Play studios

The Press Play studios are self-service, digital production spaces co-managed by the Digital Development teams in the four colleges and maintained by the Library.

Find out more about this service

Adobe Creative Campus at RMIT

All RMIT staff and students have free access to Adobe Express (Premium). Students who need more technical programs in the Adobe Creative Cloud suite for study or research have access to additional programs.

Find out more

Artificial intelligence and teaching

This guide supports educators in understanding and applying Generative AI tools within teaching, learning, and assessment contexts.

Access the guide

How to apply copyright best practice in your teaching

This program will guide you in using library resources, online materials, video, images and other copyright works in your online teaching.

Copyright Capability program (WorkDay)

Events

Signed Book and Artwork Auction

21 Sep 2026 - 03 Nov 2026

Online

Authors and artists from RMIT and beyond have donated signed copies of their novels and artwork for an online auction, which raises funds for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.

Super Spreader: Second-year printmaking group exhibition

22 Sep 2026 - 12 Oct 2026

Melbourne City

Super Spreader is the second-year printmaking group exhibition that captures current individual practices sealed in a shared envelope.

Open Access 2026: The Cost of Knowledge

19 Oct 2026 - 25 Oct 2026

Open Access Week provides an opportunity to raise awareness of open access and open scholarship initiatives.

Close Encounters: Intimacies and Asian Australian Cinema

27 Oct 2026

Melbourne City

The RMIT Australian Screen Research Collection Salon celebrates milestones in Asian Australian filmmaking through an exclusive in-conversation event with pioneers of the topic: Professor Olivia Khoo and director/producer Tony Ayres.

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News

Launching the display of Artothek: the art lending library

30 Sep 2026

On Wednesday 23 September, the Library and RMIT Giving were delighted to launch a display of the Artothek Collection, with remarks from special guest, Senior Industry Fellow Dr Christoph Dahlhausen.

Update on publisher agreements for 2027

31 Aug 2026

RMIT University Library is participating in a sector-wide negotiation of agreements with several publishers, led by the Council of Australasian University Librarians.

Read local and international newspapers through your Library

13 Aug 2026

RMIT users can read a broad range of local and international newspapers for free through the Library. The NewsBank platform offers many titles in various formats for easy access.

Track your research impact with Overton

30 Jul 2026

RMIT now has access to Overton, a platform for discovering policy documents, government reports, think tank publications and other forms of grey literature.

Help and related information

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.

Learn more about our commitment to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples