There’s a difference between when a merger is announced and when it has been completed. The merger of the AGSM with the UNSW Faculty of Commerce and Economics to form the Australian School of Business at UNSW has been announced, but the integration process is still continuing.
The Frank Lowy Library is a good example of this. The Library’s user database is populated from the AGSM’s student and staff databases, but at the moment, it is not synchronized with the equivalent UNSW databases.
The Frank Lowy Library welcomes all faculty and staff and postgraduate students from the Australian School of Business who are interested in using the Library. Because the AGSM and UNSW databases are not integrated yet, the Library needs you to fill out a registration form so that you can be added into the Library’s database. This allows us to keep track of what books or DVDs you’ve borrowed, and any materials you have reserved.
The other difference is with using the Library’s electronic collection. Accessing databases and electronic journals is crucial to using a library these days. As things are today and for the immediate future, AGSM students can reach these things only through the Frank Lowy Library. Every other UNSW student, staff or faculty member needs to use the UNSW Library’s gateways for this – Sirius and the LRD (Library Resource Database).
The good news is that it doesn’t really matter whether you use the Frank Lowy Library or the UNSW Library interface to access the electronic collection, with only a few exceptions, the two collections have the same content.
As the integration process continues, it is expected that the registration forms and the different ways of accessing databases will eventually go away, but this process will take time.
If you have any questions about the merger and integration process or would like to give some feedback about it, feel free to send us a comment.
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