La Trobe University Library news and information!

Thanks so much for your patience during the recarpetting works on Level 3. The whole floor is now open again!  

New furniture arrives next week so check it out – this silent study space of the Library now looks so much nicer with all the old carpet and patches gone.

We’ve had some great feedback already. Let us know what you think … leave a comment below.

Our next  instalment of suggestions for reading (and watching!)

Classic fiction

The sweet hereafter, by Russell Banks

Regeneration, by Pat Barker (part 1 of a trilogy)

Herzog, by Saul Bellow

2011 award winners

Let the great world spin, by Colum McCann – International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

That deadman dance, by Kim Scott – Miles Franklin Literary Award

dvd

Captain Corelli’s mandolin, based on the novel by Louis de Bernieres, directed by John Madden

e-reading

All Clear: Volume 2,  and Blackout, by Connie Willis – winner of the 2011 Hugo Award for outstanding fiction or fantasy

Librarians have created a new library guide for indigenous students. It gives an overview of key resources as well as the Library’s services and facilities for indigenous students. It includes information on:

• Finding journal articles and ebooks
• Key reference resources like encylcopedias and websites
• News media resources
• The Library’s indigenous collection
• Writing guides, referencing and a great Help section!

Find out how you can make best use of the Library during your time at La Trobe.

We’d love to know what you think of this guide or any other aspect of the Library. Leave a comment below…

This week’s fiction and dvd picks:

Classic fiction:

Surfacing, by Margaret Atwood

The New York trilogy: City of glass, Ghosts, The locked room, by Paul Auster

Giovanni’s room, by James Baldwin

2011 award winning fiction

A visit from the goon squad, by Jennifer Egan – the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The memory of love, by Aminatta Forna – Commonwealth Writers Prize

dvd

The lover, based on the novel L’amant, by Marguerite Duras, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud

e-reading

Mighty be our powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War, by Leymah Gbowee, winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize

•  Science and Technology: the Internet, mobile phones, cloning
• Geopolitics: the end of the Cold War, and the rise of global terrorism
• War: the collapse of Yugoslavia, the Gulf Wars, conflict in Afghanistan, war in the Congo
• Tragedy: Rwandan genocide, the Boxing Day tsunami, Kobe earthquake

New interface – new features

• Citation generation – users can now automatically create citations and export them to 3rd party bibliographic software, such as EndNote
• New image viewer – ability to manipulate images more easily and view articles and whole pages full screen
• Wider variety of printing options – making printing awkward size articles much easier
• …and an all-new design, making the archive a more pleasant experience to use.

Summer is finally here and hopefully you will have time to catch up on some leisurely reading. During the summer break we will be posting some suggestions for good reads and dvds.

This is our first instalment. Everything is available at La Trobe Library. Enjoy!

Classic must reads

Dona Flor and her two husbands: a moral and amorous tale, by Jorge Amado, translated from the Portugese by Harriet de Onis

Take a girl like you, by Kingsley Amis

Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson

2011 Man Booker Prize winners

The sense of an ending, by Julian Barnes – The Man Booker Prize

Nemesis, by Philip Roth – The Man Booker International Prize

dvd

Disgrace, based on the novel by J M Coetzee, directed by Steve Jacobs

ebook

Possession, by Annie Ernaux

Don’t miss the last weeks of the VAC Honours exhibition.

This year’s Honours program at La Trobe University has brought together a diverse range of emerging artists from both Bendigo and Mildura campuses in a new exhibition at the La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre.

The exhibition captures a range of artistic processes, some traditional and others new, and includes ceramics, analogue and digital photography, painting, printmaking, and sculptural installation.

Participating artists include Ann Berg, Frances Guerin, Murray Ross, Maree Santilla, Elisa Stone, Kerryn Sylvia and Linda Wheeler.

When: until 21 December
Where: VAC, 121 View Street, Bendigo

Most of Level 3 housing the General Collection is now open again for browsing and retrieving books. However, sections of shelves need to be closed down progressively while each row is lifted and new carpet placed underneath.

If you need books with call numbers between 323 and 600 we suggest you borrow these before Tuesday 13 December. This range of shelves will be closed until after the Christmas closedown period which finishes 3 January 2012.

We ask that you not sit and study on Level 3 as yet while the carpet replacement work is completed. There is plenty of seating for quiet study on Levels 2 and 1 of the Library at the moment.

Thank you for your patience while these improvements to your Library space are carried out.