La Trobe University Library news and information!

Environment Victoria and Victoria’s Climate Action Groups have organised The Melbourne Walk Against Warming.

In December world leaders will meet in Copenhagen to decide what to do about climate change. Join this year’s Walk Against Warming, and help form a massive HUMAN SIGN over Princes Bridge.  A sign so big, they’ll get the message all the way over in Copenhagen!

Over the last four years, Environment Victoria have mobilised 100,000 Victorians to walk against warming, and for a safe climate future.

Visit the Walk Against Warming website for more information and to RSVP.

Details:

12pm, Saturday, 12 December 2009
State Library, Swanston St,  Melbourne

‘Meeting the Millennium Development Goals: Old Problems, New Challenges’.

The public plenary session will be held on Sunday, 29 November 2009, at the State Library Village Roadshow Theatrette, from 6-7.30pm.

The conference will be opened by The Hon Bob McMullan MP, Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance. The keynote speech will be by Dr Jan Vandemoortele, former UNDP Resident representative in Pakistan and one of the architects of the MDGs.

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a United Nations partnership initiative to eradicate extreme poverty and other forms of disadvantage and human crises by 2015.  The global financial crisis, rising food prices and climate change have significantly impacted the achievement of the MDGs. This conference will critically engage the MDGs and the processes or possibilities for change. One key aim is to bring together development practitioners, academics, policy makers and the business community.

More information is available on the Institute for Human Security website; or register online.

The La Trobe Media and Cinema Studies Program will be holding the Radical Beginnings Symposium on Thursday, 26 November from 9.30am-5.30pm, in the Undercroft Lecture Theatre, at La Trobe’s Bundoora Campus.

Radical Beginnings is an oral history project exploring La Trobe’s own cultural and screen studies history during the late 1960s and 1970s. Symposium speakers will include the filmmakers and other key media and education figures of the time.

There will be  a pre-symposium screening of two films made at La Trobe in the 1970s: ‘Beginnings’ (a documentary directed by Scott Murray in 1971) and ‘Yakkety Yak’ (an experimental film directed by Dave Jones in 1974).  Screenings will take place  in  the Undercroft Lecture Theatre on Wednesday, 25 November, from 4-7pm.

Members of the public are invited to attend these events.

The Bundoora Library Redevelopment Project is about to begin. The first step is a series of major collection moves starting in the week of November 16th.

During the first of the moves, from 16 November to 15 January, the majority of the collections in the Library on-site ‘Storage’ will be temporarily unavailable.

From the middle of January 2010, items identified as ‘low use’ in the ‘Bundoora General’ collection will be temporarily unavailable until the end of February 2010.

If you have any questions about items from these collections please contact the Bundoora Inquiry Desk or phone 9479 2922.

To find out more about what is moving and the planned changes, visit the Redevelopment Project Website.

Thank you for your patience while the Library prepares for the major renovations during 2010.

Students in a second semester interdisciplinary unit on Climate, Sustainability and Society launched their group poster work at the Albury-Wodonga Campus Library recently.

The launch involved student groups speaking to their posters and highlighting the effects of climate change on a chosen geographical area in Australia.

The library was privileged to be chosen once again as the venue for the launch and student poster exhibit.

You can now get help with your IT problems in the Bundoora Campus Library from 9:00am to 6:00pm Monday to Friday.

Report your computer issues or faults to the ICT staff at the Student IT Support desk located on Level 2 at the rear of the Library (next to the AV Desk).

Further details about requesting IT support can be found at the ICT services for students website.

The Library has many past examination papers available online–here’s a quick demonstration on how to find them:

The exams are only available to staff and students so you will have to enter your La Trobe username and password to access them. It is also a good idea to check the course materials for your subject on the University’s ‘Schools and Departments‘ webpages as many exams are also available on the web.

And if you need more help, remember your Subject Librarian is expert at finding resources–drop in and have a chat with them!

This time of year can be stressful, but remember the University has some great resources to help you get through this period:

• Planning and priorities
  To do lists, ways to prioritise, breaking up tasks so they don’t seem so daunting.
• Study timetables
  Different approaches to using timetables including downloadable forms.
• Goal setting
  Tips for goal setting, different types of goals, focusing your energy.
• Revision and exam preparation
  Strategies for completing and preparing for exams. You can also look up old exam papers.
• Reading & note taking, editing and proofreading
  Checklists and strategies for that last minute editing and proofing.

There are more links to information on making presentations and academic writing available at Student Learning.  Also if you’d like to talk to someone face to face about study issues there are services at all campuses with friendly specialist advisors to help you.

The Library’s ‘Bundoora Annexe’ at 666 Waterdale Road has been established. Work to connect to the University’s telephone and computer networks has been completed. A tender for erection of 20km of shelving has been let, and construction is well underway.

The Bundoora Annexe features an air conditioned workroom which will be furnished to allow its use, by appointment, by researchers requiring access to the print collections stored there. On request, delivery of information from the store will also be provided, either as hard copy or emailed scans of journal articles.

More information on the Project, including plans and FAQs, is available at: www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/bundoora/building/

Systems Biology for Drug Discovery:

Professor Liam O’Connor, Professor of Systems Biology & Bioinformatics, Bioscience Research Centre, La Trobe University

• 12-1pm Friday 6 November, Level 1, Seminar Room, Borchardt Library, La Trobe University

Post-genomic era drug discovery takes place in the context of an exponentially growing amount of genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic and chemical data. Making sense of all this information often requires going beyond reductionist models of biology and pharmacology. Dr O’Connor’s research involves using multiple diverse data types to extend our knowledge of the developmental and molecular signaling pathways dysregulated in disease.