Posts from — November 2009

Bendigo Campus Library now has EFTPOS!

The “Incredibly Easy” set of electronic nursing titles is now available at La Trobe Library. The set includes :

• Dosage calculations made incredibly easy!, 3rd ed.  Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,  c2005
• ECG interpretation made incredibly easy!, 4th ed.  Ambler : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,  c2008
• Emergency nursing made incredibly easy!, Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,  c2007
• Fluids & electrolytes made incredibly easy!, 4th ed.  Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,  c2008

Post content supplied by: Eva Fisch, Collection Development Manager

The Library’s new digital collection, ‘Perdita Manuscripts:  Women Writers, 1500-1700‘,  is a rich resource for those researching women’s studies, history and literature.

The collection consists of the full text of original manuscripts, reproduced as greyscale facsimiles.  The manuscripts (e.g. account books,  advice, almanacs, autobiography, biblical writings, biography, diaries, drama, historical writings, medical writings, prose, religious writing, travel writing, verse, etc.) were written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the 16th and 17th Centuries and they have been sourced from archives and libraries across the United Kingdom and the USA.  One of the key attractions of Perdita Manuscripts is that it brings together little known material from widely scattered locations and provides a biographical and bibliographical resources, and contextual essays by academics working in the field.

Post content supplied by:  Eva Fisch, Collection Development Manager

The Library has purchased over 1,250 titles in the Palgrave Macmillan ebook collections in 8 subject areas:

• Business & Management
• Economics & Finance
• History
• Language & Linguistics
• Literature & Performing Arts
• Political & International Studies
• Religion & Philosophy

These electronic books can be found by typing  palgrave connect into the Library catalogue keyword search.

Post content supplied by: Eva Fisch, Collection Development Manager

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.