La Trobe University Library news and information!

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/.

19-23 October is Open Access Week. The Library invites you to find out more about this important and growing international movement that uses the internet to throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge.

Open Access encourages the unrestricted sharing of research results with everyone, everywhere, for the advancement and enjoyment of science and society. It is the principle that all research should be freely accessible online, immediately after publication, and it’s gaining more momentum around the world as research funders and policy makers throw their weight behind it.

Open Access is widely supported in Australia and by Australian Universities, including La Trobe. The Library is developing an open access research repository promoting the research of La Trobe staff, while operating within copyright restrictions.

Find out more at openaccessweek.org, including why it matters to students, or read A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access. You may also be interested to find out more about one of the organisations supporting Open Access Week, Students for Free Culture.

It is THAT time of year.  Final exams and assignments are looming. Don’t add to stress levels by making the library a noisy place to be.

Please be considerate of others when using the library. The Mezzanine and Level 2 are quiet study areas.

In response to our blog post on new Bendigo Sunday hours we are currently conducting a survey so that we can best meet your needs.

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A more detailed survey is available at the Circulation desk.

On Tuesday, 20 October at 12pm, Henry Reynolds, leading historian of indigenous dispossession, and Ghassan Hage, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Melbourne, will debate Judith Brett, Professor of Politics at La Trobe, and John Hirst, Australia’s leading political historian, on the question of Racism in Australia.

Venue: Union Hall, La Trobe University, Bundoora Campus

Any queries about the aims of the program or about the event should be addressed to Professor Robert Manne, r.manne@latrobe.edu.au or 03-9479-2114.