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Getting to know your library

You may not have been to a library for a while, but that's about to change. The ECU Library is like a world within your new university world.

If you want to dig deep into all things Library, you should check out our Guide to Library essentials.

This is one of heaps of 'Libguides' you’ll be getting to know, including some for the study area you've chosen.

Guide to Library essentials

Library opening hours

Here's a page with semester opening hours for all of our campus libraries. We aren't open on some public holidays.

ECU Library hours

What if I'm studying online?

If you're an online student and can’t get to campus, you can request a student ID card by submitting an application for external student ID card.

If you live more than 50km from your nearest ECU campus, you may be eligible for external Library services where books are posted to you, or book chapters are scanned and emailed to you. You'll also be eligible to use our free document delivery service (you have to pay the cost of return postage on borrowed items).

Of course you can always save time and access our huge range of eBooks!

To find out more, send us an email: library@ecu.edu.au

Library services for students with disabilities or medical conditions

If you have a disability or medical condition that affects your studies, the Library can assist with:

  • orientation to the Library and its services
  • finding and retrieving information
  • access to special equipment
  • study rooms
  • extended loans if required
More about accessible services

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What does
that mean?
Here's a quick guide to some of the things we mention during the Orientation stage.

  • EndNote is a reference management software package that allows, you to create a personalised database of references for use in managing your bibliographies and references.

    You can download EndNote software for free through our software download service, using your ECU Login ID.

  • An International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a 13 digit number which uniquely identifies books and book-like items. It clearly identifies a particular edition of a title. Items published by ECU can be allocated an ISBN by completing the ISBN Request form and emailing the completed form to library@ecu.edu.au.

  • At ECU, all written assessments are required to follow a standard referencing format. Referencing is a formal, systematic way of acknowledging the sources that you have found in your research and used in your assessment. Failing to acknowledge other writers' words, ideas or theories, either intentionally or unintentionally is considered plagiarism.

    Follow the ECU Referencing Guide to ensure you understand and use correct referencing.

    Also see 'plagiarism' and 'Turnitin'.

  • To get an ECU student ID card, you need to visit one of our eLab counters at each campus. Your photo will be taken and your card produced while you wait. eLabs are here:

    • Joondalup eLab: Building 31.233 (in the library)
    • Mount Lawley eLab: Building 10.136
    • Bunbury eLab: Building 3.101E

    Your student ID card also acts as your:

    • photo identification as an ECU student
    • print credit card for printing and photocopying
    • Transperth SmartRider travel concession card (optional, for full-time students)
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