Posts from — March 2010

Proquest Central is now live on the Library’s databases list, allowing unlimited user access to over 9700 full-text titles.  As well as Proquest’s 5000 titles, you have access to:

• ANZ Newsstand – Australian and Pacific newspapers
• Canadian Newsstand – major and regional Canandian newspapers
• Proquest Newsstand – American and international newspapers
• Proquest Accounting & Tax Database – adds a collection of full-text accounting journals, trade publications, dissertations and working papers not included in ABI/INFORM
• Hoover’s Company Records – features profiles of more than 40,000 companies, 600 industries and 225,000 key executives.  With IntelliDocs™ technology, users can put company information in context by linking directly from articles in ProQuest to Hoover’s Company Records
• Snapshots – The Snapshot International Group Series of 4,600 reports is designed to provide an instant overview of a market, and the data is supplied in both graphical and tabular format for ease of interpretation and analysis
• Proquest Nursing & Allied Health Source – full-text journals and dissertations alongside Systematic Reviews, Evidence Summaries, and Best Practice Information Sheets from the Joanna Briggs Institute, video training programs from Medcom and cultural awareness reports from CultureVision
• Proquest Psychology Journals – over 500 full-text journals and over 4000 full-text dissertations
• Proquest Military Collection – includes over 400 full text titles covering areas as diverse as civil engineering, communications, international relations, political science and history
• Criminal Justice Periodical Index – database of US and international criminal justice journals. It includes abstracts and indexing for 250 titles, with more than 100 available in full-text

Here’s an update of what’s going on and why:

• A major book relocation is taking place. While some sections of this move are complete, others are still in progress.

• Some books may not be in their expected place. Please be assured that this is only a temporary situation and is changing by the day. We are doing everything we possibly can to help students and staff either locate books they need or find alternative copies.

• There is a whiteboard located at the top of the stairs to level 3 with daily updates of call numbers which have been affected by the move. Please check the catalogue and the whiteboard before attempting to locate a book on the shelves.

• We have employed extra staff to help locate items and answer questions about the relocation. They are working on level 3 and are easily identifiable by their red t-shirts. Students and staff are also welcome to ask for assistance at the service desks on level 2.

This work is part of the Library Redevelopment Project and involves creating more student study space with natural light on level 3 (top floor) of the Library.

320,000 low-use and older books are being progressively relocated to the on-site store on level 1. This process is about 75% complete and is due to be finished by mid April. We are aware that the timing of these moves is less than ideal, but it has been unavoidable due to the building schedule.

It will all be worth it in the end! There will be more study space close to windows, items on the shelves on will be easier to find, and the titles will be more current.

Please leave a comment or email library@latrobe.edu.au.

You can also call the Inquiry Desk: 9479 2922, or Research Help Desk: 9479 2718, if you need help to locate items or would like further information about the relocations.

Macquarie Dictionary & Thesaurus is available now online via the catalogue.

Features:

• easy, comprehensive and interactive searching with the ability to search either the dictionary, thesaurus or both.
• annual updates of words, definitions and encyclopedic entries — from 2008 words such as toxic debt, flashpacker, bromance, textaholic, guerilla gardener, ecocentrism, uberveillance, lawfare and many more.
• thousands of new words and senses. Words are constantly coming into use in Australian English, from many different sources.
• illustrative material from Ozcorp, Macquarie’s database of Australian writing, which continues to be increased and updated.
• regionalisms from around Australia, many gathered from Australian Word Map, a joint online project of Macquarie and ABC Online.
• etymologies for some of the more interesting phrases in English. Where does ‘save someone’s bacon’ come from? And what about ‘on the wallaby’?.
• extra features including the User’s Guide, Drag & Drop, Add-a-Word and Word of the Week.

Immigration will be at Bundoora campus to help you lodge your student application online!

Venue & Time

La Trobe University – Bundoora campus
Level 2, Room 202
Donald Whitehead Building
Wednesday 3rd March (10am – 4pm)
No Appointment Necessary
Please bring your passport and COE
www.immi.gov.au/e_visa/students.htm
For more information see La Trobe International