Other registered users Login Help
 
Category Explanation
When will I need to login?
What do I need? UQ Library username and password
Problems logging-in Contact your branch library.
Forgotten my password
  • Ask Library staff at any Loans Desk to remove it from your record. Library staff cannot tell you what your password is as it is encrypted in our system to maintain your privacy.
  • Add a new password to your record immediately
Change my password Go to Your record and click on "Change Library password"
Remember to logout To maintain your privacy, we strongly recommend that you log-out from the Library's home page
 

What do I need?

Library card
 

Library password

As set-up by you when you registered. You must not tell anyone your password.

Logging-in to Library computers

When you sit down at a Library computer (except at Ipswich), you will be asked to enter your UQ Library username and password.

Enter Username:    
Enter Password:    
 
        
Visitors login as "Guest" with no password

Based on your login, the following services will be available, depending on the configuration of the individual machine:

User Category USB read/write    Email     Internet  
Teaching hospital staffYesYes*Yes*
UQ AlumniYesYesLimited
General public, reciprocal and community borrowers, Fryer visitorsNoNoLimited

* re-authentication may be required

 
Ipswich Library: Only UQ staff and students are able to log in to the computers in the Library at the Ipswich campus. Use the computers in the café and the High Use area. Note that these computers will not allow USB access, printing rights or access to MS-Office.

Remember to logout

To maintain confidentiality, the Library strongly recommends that you do the following:

If you are using a Library computer and have accessed secure online services you should

  • click on the browser's home icon to access the Library's home page
  • click on the logout facility at the top left of the screen under the UQ logo that says "Logout" followed by your name as it appears in your Library record
  • close down the browser
  • double click on the Logoff Workstation icon on the desktop

If you are using a Library computer and have NOT accessed secure online services you should

  • close down the browser
  • double click on the Logoff Workstation icon on the desktop

If you are using a computer outside the Library, you should close down the web browser.

Accessing secure web services

Access to the following services may require authentication, whether you are using a Library computer or a computer elsewhere, such as at home or work:

  • Your record
  • Requesting items via the catalogue
  • Databases from home (UQ Alumni only)

Upon clicking on a link on the Library's website to one of the above services, you will be presented with the following authentication page:

Login
Username
Password    
      

You will normally have to authenticate once only per web browser session to access the above services.