La Trobe University Library news and information!

Orientation Tours of the Library are being offered during the first two weeks of Semester.

Major structural changes are underway and a guided tour with one of our librarians will help you get better acquainted with where resources are currently located.

Book your place via our training page, or visit our Orientation website for more information.

The last of our summer reading suggestions are great reads and the perfect way to escape over the holidays:

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon
• The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
• Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
• Everything is illuminated: a novel, by Jonathan Safran Foer

Maybe you already knew these books have been challenged or banned, but have you read them yourself yet? Summer break is the perfect time to find out what all the fuss was about!

• Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov: banned in France, United Kingdom, Argentina, New Zealand & South Africa
• The well of loneliness, by Radclyffe Hall: banned in the United Kingdom
• The God of small things, by Arundhati Roy: banned in India
• Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury: challenged in the United States
• As I lay dying, by William Faulkner: banned and challenged in the United States
  
• Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut: banned and challenged in the United States
  
• Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller: banned in the United States & Turkey
  

Clearing of Level 1 has been swift – you can barely recognise the area as most of the empty shelving has also been dismantled. Plans are underway to relocate the study carrels on Level 1 to Levels 2 and 3 in the next few days.

As of yesterday and despite the heat, relocation contractors Movers and Shakers had packed up and relocated 100% of the Government publications to go to the Annexe and 70% of the Serials on the open shelves. By the end of the week all the older Serials, closed runs and electronic equivalent materials will be located in the Annexe.

Workstations from Level 1 have been relocated to Level 2 and some service desks and collections are now in their new places.

• The Audiovisual Desk and ICT Student Help are now located with the main Inquiry Desk.
• New books are now located in the foyer.
• New Journals are now located behind the Research Help Desk.
• Current Journals and Government Publications are now locate behind the Reference collection in the compactus on Level 2.
• Current Newspapers are located at the north end of the Library, near the AV collection.

Check the updated floorplans for other location changes.

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More information about the renovations can be found on the Bundoora Library Redevelopment Project site.

These summer reading suggestions are a little more serious and thoughtful:

• How are we to live?: ethics in an age of self-interest, by Peter Singer

• Letters from Robben Island : a selection of Ahmed Kathrada’s prison correspondence, 1964-1989, foreword by Nelson Mandela, introduction by Walter Sisulu, edited by Robert D Vassen

• Elders: wisdom from Australia’s indigenous leaders, forewords by Mandawuy Yunupingu & Lowitja O’Donoghue, photographed and recorded by Peter McConchie

• Lucky Man: a memoir, by Michael J Fox
  

It’s always interesting to read (or re-read) the book that inspired the film or tv series you just watched.  There are some new, and not so new, suggestions here.  Enjoy!

• The Lovely Bones , by Alice Sebold
• New Moon, by Sephenie Meyer
• The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
• The Time Traveler ’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
• Wake in Fright , by Kenneth Cook
• Bleak House, by Charles Dickens
• Q&A: a novel (Slum Dog Millionaire), by Vikas Swarup

This instalment of reading list suggestions includes stories and narratives about travel and science. You may find something a little bit different or inspiring here.

American Journeys, by Don Watson

From rice to riches: a personal journey through China, by Jane Hutcheon

Bomb, book and compass: Joseph Needham and the great secrets of China, by Simon Winchester

Forecast: the consequences of climate change, from the Amazon to the Arctic, from Darfur to Napa Valley, by Stephan Faris

The greatest show on Earth: the evidence for evolution, by Richard Dawkins

Longitude: the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time, by Dava Sobel and William J.H. Andrewes

Throughout the break we will post ideas for your summer reading list. The list below includes books inspired by the classics:

The final solution: a story of detection, by Michael Chabon (Sherlock Holmes)

Mr Pip, by Lloyd Jones (Great Expectations)

March, by Geraldine Brooks (Little Women)

A thousand acres: a novel, by Jane Smiley (King Lear)

Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys (Jane Eyre)

Junior fiction: Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the west, by Gregory Maguire (The Wizard of Oz)

La Trobe Library now subscribes to PsychiatryOnline. This new database  includes access to the following titles:

Textbooks

• DSM-IV-TR®
• DSM-IV-TR® Handbook of Differential Diagnosis
• DSM-IV-TR® Casebook and its Treatment Companion
• American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines in both comprehensive and quick-reference formats
• The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychiatry, 5th Edition, with its companion study guide, Self-Assessment in Clinical Psychiatry
• What Your Patients Need to Know About Psychiatric Medications
• Essentials of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2nd Edition, with its companion study guide, Self-Assessment in Clinical Psychopharmacology
• Manual of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 6th Edition
• Gabbard’s Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders, 4th Edition
• The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Substance Abuse Treatment, 4th Edition, with its companion study guide, Self-Assessment in Substance Abuse

Treatment

• Textbook of Psychotherapeutic Treatments (Sept 2008)
• Helping Parents, Youth, and Teachers Understand Medications for Behavioral and Emotional Problems: A Resource Book of Medication Information Handouts (Sept 2008)
• The complete DSM archives (DSM-I, DSM-II, DSM-III, DSM-III-R, DSM-IV, and a couple of significant changes to between-edition printings) for research and archiving purposes

Journals

• Psychiatric Services
• Psychosomatics
• The Journal of Neuropsychiatry & Clinical Neurosciences
• Academic Psychiatry
• Psychiatric News
• The American Journal of Psychiatry

Access PsychiatryOnline

To ensure the safety of Library users during the relocation of collections and while the area is prepared for scheduled redevelopment works in January, Level 1 of the Library has been closed.

If you need access to materials previously located on Level 1, please ask at the Inquiry Desk and staff will assist you.

Newspapers and the current serials display will be relocated to Level 2.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

To find out more about the Library redevelopment project visit www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/bundoora/building/