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.

Request your learning resources for 2027

To ensure that the learning resources you set for your courses are available through the Library for the start of semester 1 2027 and for the courses offered in the first half-year of 2027 (January-June), please submit your request or confirmation by Friday 27 November.

Confirm or request learning resources

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

Explore Library services and spaces designed to help you enhance the quality and availability of course resources, encourage student engagement and showcase student works.

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

Events

Library Matter Exhibition

11 Nov 2026 - 28 Nov 2026

Melbourne City

An exhibition of Design Studio work from the RMIT School of Architecture and Urban Design exploring ideas of future Library place where collections and community come together in a culture of care.

Screenwriting Archives Symposium: Contemporary perspectives on an often-underestimated body of work

26 Nov 2026 - 27 Nov 2026

Melbourne City

This two-day international symposium is proudly presented by the RMIT Australian Screen Research Collection, Université du Québec à Montréal and the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la littérature et la culture au Québec.

Open Education in Practice: Finding, Using and Creating OER

26 Nov 2026

Teams Live

This webinar will explore the benefits of open educational resources (OER) in supporting affordable, accessible and engaging learning experiences.

News

Join RMIT’s Cultural Collections advisory panels in 2027

11 Nov 2026

RMIT Cultural Collections are seeking expressions of interest from students to join its advisory panels in 2027.

Celebrating Asian Australian cinema at The Capitol

10 Nov 2026

More than 150 attendees joined acclaimed director Tony Ayres, film professor Olivia Khoo and ASRC screen research fellow Dr Scarlette Nhi Do for a thoughtful discussion and special screening of Ayres’ short documentary, Sadness.

Planned disruptions to all Library systems: January and February

04 Nov 2026

RMIT Vietnam Library and RMIT Australia Library systems are merging to provide a better experience and access to digital resources for Vietnam students. This will cause a planned outage that will impact our users.

Last chance: Online auction for Indigenous Literacy Foundation ends 5 November

29 Oct 2026

This year’s Great Book Swap activities at RMIT University have already raised more than $6800 in donations and pledges for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.

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