Rate My Professor Scott Venning

Scott Venning is the Divisional Manager, Commerce and Humanities, at the University of Otago Library in Dunedin, New Zealand. He serves as Library Kaiāwhina for Commerce and Subject Librarian for Accountancy and Finance, Tourism, Marketing, Information Science, and Economics. His subject responsibilities also cover Business, Planning Studies, and Sustainability. Venning's direct dial is +64 3 479 7155, and his professional email is scott.venning@otago.ac.nz. He is featured on the University of Otago Library contacts page and staff directory. On the LibGuides platform, Venning authors and maintains several specialized guides, including Business Administration - MBA, DBA (last updated April 13, 2026), Digital Humanities (September 7, 2025), Diversify the Library Project (April 21, 2026), Library Liaison Service & Subject Librarians (February 17, 2026), and ResearchReady (March 11, 2026). These guides support commerce and humanities users with resources on academic literature, databases, referencing, writing, and research skills.

Venning began working at the University of Otago Library in January 2019 after his whānau relocated to Dunedin from Auckland. Prior to joining Otago, he was at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Library. His Google Scholar profile lists his affiliation as University of Otago with interests in Library and Information Studies. A publication by S. Venning is 'International Postgraduate Students’ use of Academic Libraries: At the Auckland University of Technology and in their Home Countries' (2017), which investigates library usage patterns among international postgraduate students at AUT and in their home countries. Venning provides his pepeha as: Nō Ngāti Pākeha mātou ko tōku whanau. Nō Ōtautahi ahau. Ko Scott tōku ingoa. He grew up in Christchurch before moving to Auckland as a teenager.