La Trobe University Library news and information!

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.

Jan Leeroy New, winner of the Ateneo Art Awards and current artist in residence at the La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, is developing his new installation ”Psychopomp” on site using recycled and found objects.  Leeroy’s work explores hybrid forms of deities and supernatural beings.  See the interview and installation photographs on the ABC website.

The exhibition is running until Sunday, 8 November from 10am-5pm. This is a free public exhibition at the Visual Arts Centre, 121 View St, Bendigo.

For more information contact: Paul Northam, Managing Curator, on 03 5441 8724 or email: p.northam@latrobe.edu.au

The Library will be open as usual on Melbourne Cup Day, Tuesday 3^rd November:

• Albury-Wodonga: 8.30am-9pm
• Bendigo: 8.30am-9pm
• Bundoora: 8am-10pm

‘The Challenges Facing Barack Obama: An Historical Perspective’

When: 30 October 2009, 1pm start

Where: La Trobe University, Bundoora HU2 228

William Chafe is the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History at Duke University, USA.  Much of his professional scholarship reflects his long-term interest in issues of race and gender equality. For many years he has been a leader in the effort to bring interdisciplinary studies to higher education. Professor Chafe is a former president of the Organization of American Historians, and served for nine years as Dean of the Faculty and Vice-Provost at Duke University. Professor Chafe has been co-director of the Duke Oral History Program, and its Centre for the Study of Civil Rights and Race Relations; he is a founder and the former Academic Director of the Duke-UNC Center for Research on Women; he is also a founder and senior research associate of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

All are welcome to attend this lecture.

For more information contact:
Dr Claudia Haake
c.haake@latrobe.edu.au

‘My 80 year journey through learning and life’.

Presented by Mary White, Australia’s foremost paleo-botanist
Monday 26 October 2009, 1- 2pm, Agora Cinema, La Trobe University, Melbourne (Bundoora) campus.

Videoconferenced to: Room 4101 at Albury-Wodonga
BUS133 at Bendigo, and Seminar Room 1 at Mildura

RSVP to Kristen Pascoe
Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering
E: k.pascoe@latrobe.edu.au | T: 9479 2556

The Chronicling America site gives you access to a wide range of America’s historic newspapers. You can  search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1922 and find information about American newspapers published from 1690-present.

View newspaper pages from 1880 to 1922 from the following states: Arizona, California, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washington.

Find information about newspapers published in the United States from 1690 to the present in the Chronicling America Directory.

See all available newspapers currently available on Chronicling America. Scroll through the list of newspapers, select the title you are interested in and then click on Browse Issues to display all available issues.

Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

We understand your frustration with the lack of power points in the Bundoora Library, but  please don’t cause a safety hazard by running laptop power cords across aisles or walkways in the Library.  People trip over them and it’s dangerous.

After the redevelopment project, there will be LOTS more power points in convenient places for laptops. Until then, we would be grateful for your patience and a little extra care.

You can find out more (or ask us questions) about the new Library spaces at www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/bundoora/building/.