The Library is packed full of events to help you settle into a new semester—from fun activities to workshops that will level up your academic skills.
Skill up in your studies
Check out the Library's range of training workshops designed to help you hit the ground running:
- Get industry-prepared with the Library's Adobe Creative Cloud workshops
- Learn how to navigate essential Microsoft programs including Excel, CoPilot, Word, PowerPoint with these digital skills workshops
- Knock that first assignment out of the park by learning how to utilise research and resources to your advantage with these assignment skills workshops
Find your perfect place to study
Whether you're after focused study or collaborative study for an assignment, the Library in Building 2 has you covered.
- Visit the Reading Room in Building 2, level 5 for silent study spaces with plenty of powerpoints and desk space to go around
- Check out levels 8 and 9 inside the Library which has cozy booths for you to hunker down and do independent study in
- If it's a computer you're after, visit the computer bays inside the Library on levels 7, 8 and 9 for both Windows and Mac setups
- For a room of your own, check out the numerous bookable spaces on campus here
Join the C.U.L.T
Deborah Kelly, the 2025 UTS Library Creative in Residence, invites you to experience C.U.L.T (Collage Using Library Things)—a project that explores the radical act of reclaiming and reimagining discarded materials.
- Colour Using Library Things: Take some time to relax and colour in discarded books in our passive colouring space outside the Library gates. Your colouring will honour and reimagine what has been discarded, and will eventually be turned into collages as part of Deborah's residency.
- Cut and Collage Using Library Things: We invite you to join us in this series of workshops where you will carefully (or enthusiastically) dismantle and re-curate discarded library books in preparation for their next life as collage.
Submit to the Big Vertigo
The Library's newest interactive craft zone offers students an opportunity to submit a piece of writing or artwork to Vertigo, UTS's student-run magazine. Using supplied materials, write your feelings, thoughts, draw, and cut and paste your work into a physical Big Vertigo—which will then get published at the end of the year. It's time to get crafty, raw and messy!
Where: UTS Library, level 7
When: 16 July–15 September 2025
Elsie (and Minnie) Archival Display
Discover the legacy of women’s resilience in the Elsie (and Minnie) Archival Display at UTS Library. Created with UTS Gallery and Zanny Begg, it features rare images, newspapers, audio and literature from the women’s refuge movement and the communities that shaped it. Find out more here.
Where: UTS Library, level 7
When: 17 June–5 September 2025