La Trobe University Library news and information!

Are you a night owl or an early bird?

Extended library opening hours at the Melbourne campus start on Monday 27 February.

To access the Library between 10pm and 8am Monday to Thursday and from 6pm to midnight on Fridays, register your student card online now.

Note: Even if you registered last year, you need to re-register at the start of each year.

At the normal closing time, everyone is asked to leave the Library. If your student card has been registered with security (via the online form) for 24 hours or more, you will be able to get back in to the building, or come into the building during the night or in the early morning.  

To find out more about security, services and how things operate, visit the extended hours page.

Extended hours operating dates 2012

Semester 1: 27 February to Thursday 28 June (except for public/University holidays)

Semester 2: Monday 23 July to Thursday 22 November

We welcome your feedback about any aspect of extended opening hours.

From the start of Orientation Week, Monday 20 February, the Library at the Melbourne campus will become ’cashless’.

This means you will not be able to pay fines etc. at the Inquiry Desk in cash. You can still pay by EFTPOS, credit card or cheque.

If you can only pay by cash, ask at the Inquiry Desk for a form that staff will fill in and ask you to take to the Cashier in the Student Hub (ground floor, building behind west side of Agora) and you can pay cash there.

We are sorry if this causes you any inconvenience.

The launch of Health, Illness and Wellbeing: Perspectives and Social Determinants, by Pranee Liamputtong, Rebecca Fanany and Glenda Verrinder will be held at The Co-op Bookshop, Melbourne Campus, on Tuesday, 7 February at 2pm.

The book will be launched by Professor Hal Swerissen, Dean of Health Sciences.

Several memorial services were held over the weekend to commemorate the third anniversary of the Black Saturday fires, with more community events planned for 7 February (the actual anniversary date):

Strathewan- a community gathering will be held at Strathewan Recreation Reserve from 6-8pm. The memorial ceremony begins at 7pm and will be followed by the turning of the sod for the Strathewan memorial. For further information visit the webpage.

St Andrews- St Andrews Church will be open from 7am-7pm for people to have a quiet place for reflection with family and friends. The St Andrews Community Centre will also be set up as a place for residents to drop in for the day. For more details call 9433 3727.

Plenty- Diamond Valley Baptist Church will host a community dinner from 6pm and a one hour service from 7pm on Monday, 6 February, at 309 Diamond Creek Rd, Plenty.  For more details call 9435 9377.

Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains over 22 million digital page images of virtually every work printed in the English language, as well as works printed in Great Britain and its dependencies  from 1473-1700, in any language. This database presents classic early English works as they appear in their original format. View the first edition of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales or Vesalius’ early works with illustrations on human anatomy, or Purcell’s musical scores. Currently 128,000 texts are included and provide works related to all subject areas. EEBO is cross-searchable with Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO).

ECCO includes over 180,000 titles (200,000 volumes) comprising books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more. It is based on the English Short Title Catalogue of works published in the UK during the 18th Century plus thousands from elsewhere. ECCO I and II are parts of the same collection.  ECCO II includes recently discovered 18th Century material, some of which was not included in the English Short Title Catalogue on which ECCO I is based.

Browse and search tips

browse

• authors- an alphabetical list of authors and their works
• Thomason Tracts- pamphlets, books, broadsides and manuscripts published during the English Civil War (1640-1661)
• periodicals- newspapers (395) published during the English Civil War (1640-1661)

search

• basic- includes simple field boxes such as: keyword, title and author
• advanced- includes advanced fields such as language, illustration and source library
• periodicals- limits searching to 395 newspapers published during the English Civil War (1640-1661)
• bibliographic number- searches for the alphanumeric entry found in the short-title catalogues Pollard & Redgrave, Wing, or the Thomason Tracts
• reel position- search the reel number and position of the microfilm document
• illustration type- search documents containing one of 14 different illustration types (e.g. portrait, map, music) using the multi-select list
• limit by date- you can restrict a search for a document within a particular date range
• source library- search the library where the original document is held

Downloading images in EEBO

EEBO allows you to download images into pdf and tiff formats. Use pdf when you want to print an image and tiff when you want to manipulate an image in software like SnagIt.

More reading/viewing suggestions:

Classic fiction

Ficciones, by Jorge Luis Borges

Nadja, by Andre Breton

The master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov, translated from the Russian by Michael Glenny

2011 award winners

New collected poems, by Tomas Transtromer, translated by Robin Fulton – Nobel Prize for Literature

The tiger’s wife: a novel, by Tea Obreht – The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (awarded for a full length novel, written in English by a woman of any nationality, published for the first time in the United Kingdom)

dvd

Once were warriors, based on the novel by Alan Duff, directed by Lee Tamahori

e-reading

Sing You Home, by Jodi Picoult

Wishing you a happy and prosperous Chinese New Year!

Chinese New Year 2012 falls on Monday 23 January 2012 which starts the Year of the Dragon according to Chinese Zodiac.  The celebration usually lasts for 15 days.

Come and celebrate at La Trobe! 

Professor John Rosenberg, Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, invites you to celebrate the year of the dragon, hosted by the Centre for China Studies and the Confucius Institute.  Co-sponsored by The Office of Chinese Language Council International (Hanban) and Old Street Grill.

When: 12.30 pm – 2 pm, Tuesday 31 January
Where: Eagle Bar, Melbourne campus
RSVP: Essential by 26 January to x.zhang@latrobe.edu.au

Find out more about Chinese New Year celebrations in Australia 

It’s the National Year of Reading in Australia in 2012.

Many events and activities are planned around the country during the year, starting with the  official launch by the Premier of Victoria, the Hon. Ted Baillieu, MP at the State Library of Victoria on Tuesday 14 February 9:30am – 1:00pm. Book by February 7.

National Year of Reading ambassador, author and demographer Bernard Salt will issue the call for action with a lively presentation on why literacy is vital for society, and reading promotion expert Henk Kraima (Netherlands) will provide inspiration and ideas on building a culture of reading.

Then on Sunday 19 February 11am – 1:00pm there will be a special literary tea party hosted by the Mad Hatter. Dress up as your favourite book character and join the Mad Hatter in the Library’s Queen’s Hall for a glorious celebration of books and reading.

Tickets to this free family event will be offered through the State Library of Victoria’s Library’s Facebook page and Twitter feed.

All campus libraries will be closed on the Australia Day public holiday, Thursday 26 January.

Find out more about Australia Day and events near you at www.australiaday.org.au/

Check daily opening hours at all campus libraries at lib.latrobe.edu.au/hours

New to La Trobe? Want to kick start your studies and set yourself up for a low stress semester ? Then take a look at these tips and tools get you started in the Library at lib.latrobe.edu.au/gettingstarted/ 

• Covers what you need first for borrowing and access
• What’s where and how to find resources
• How to get help if you need it
• Links to key online services and best places to start.

Have you checked out Ready4Uni? It’s a great site to help you get started at La Trobe. Take a look at the ‘Getting started in the Library’ page there too at ready4uni/academic/library