Free Library postal service for onshore Distance Education students.

Great News! The Library will continue to provide free return postage to Distance Education students.

This means that for DE students living in Australia, there is no need to pay postage when returning items to the library.

A postage paid return address label will be included in each DE postage parcel. This label can simply be affixed to each parcel when posting items back to the Library.

The return postage service does not include items borrowed through the InterLibrary Loans scheme and does not extend to DE students living outside of Australia.

Call the Library on 1800 808 369 or visit our website for more information.

New ProQuest Databases, and Downtime

CSU Library subscribes to a number of databases provided on the ProQuest platform. These have traditionally included such datababases as ANZ Newsstand, Dissertations and Theses Full Text, ProQuest Religion, ProQuest Natural Science Collection, and ProQuest Science Journals.

Recently, CSU Library has subscribed to ProQuest Central, which includes a number of new databases, including the well-known business database ABI/Inform, and various other databases covering a range of subjects. (We are in the process of listing these new databases on our databases pages.)

ProQuest advises that, on Sunday 5 February 2012, for a period of 12 hours from 2 pm (AEDT), all ProQuest databases will be unavailable while infrastructure management is carried out.

ProQuest has said: “ We welcome customer feedback. Please email your comments to platform feedback at www.proquest.com/go/suggestions“.

Australia Day Closure

CSU's Australian Campus Libraries will be closed on Thursday 26th January for Australia Day. Normal services will resume on Friday 27th January.

Keep the kids entertained for the day by downloading these free Activity Sheets, includes colouring sheets, flag activities, crossword, puzzles and join the dots just to name a few.

And some Online Trivia. There are 3 levels for this, Joey (easy), Grey (Medium) or Western Grey (hard). Goodluck and have fun!

Whether it be a backyard BBQ or a day out with the family, however you decide to celebrate, library staff would like to wish you a happy and safe Australia Day.

Renewing items on loan in Primo Search

You can renew your loans in Primo Search

1. Visit Primo Search.

2. Click My Library Record at the top of the page.

3. Enter your CSU username and password.

4. Click Loans from the list of Activities.

5. You will see a list of all your current loans. Click the Renew link next to the loan you want to renew, or click Renew All at the top of the page to renew all your current loans.

Note:

You will not be able to renew loans if:
• items are more than two weeks overdue
• you have outstanding Library fines or charges of $100.00
• another student has placed a request on that item

Primo Search – New name, same great search tool

Over the past 6 months, the CSU Library has been beta testing a new search tool, Search@CSU Library and the feedback has been so positive that we are ready to launch the service in March 2012. However, our users aren’t as happy with the name – you told us that Search@CSU Library is too long to say, too hard to remember, and difficult to type without it turning into an email address.

The new name - Primo Search - is short and simple, reflecting how quick and easy it is to get started with your research. Only the name is changing – the URL will stay the same, so you don’t need to update any bookmarks or links.

If you haven’t tried it yet, you will find quick search options on the Division of Library Services home page, the Library tab in CSU Student, or go directly to Primo Search.

Highlights Of New Titles Recently Added To The Library Collection

BOOKS:

• Does my bum look big in this ad? : body image and the media - Shows teenagers how to critically evaluate what they see, hear or read in popular culture and the media. Check availability
• Single white female in Hanoi - A funny, warm and engaging memoir. Check availabilty
  
• Play and playfulness : developmental, cultural, and clinical aspects - Essays about the value of play. Check availability

• The Oxford handbook of bioethics - Covering the perennial and newer issues of bioethics. Check availability
• Cool tools for the connected classroom - Incorporating web 2.0 tools into classroom pedagogy. Check availability
• Dictionary of classroom strategies K-6 - Teaching, learning and assessment strategies for the classroom. Check availability
  
• I'm listening : communication for health professionals - Designed to promote effective communication skills. Check availability

• Handbook of signs and symptoms - All the assessment information busy clinicians need. Check availability
  
• Essentials of life-span development - 2011 edition. Check availability
• Blood on my hands : a surgeon at war - An incredible story of the Kosovo conflict by an Adelaide surgeon. Check availability
• 100 Australian gardens & landscapes - The best of Australia's residential gardens and landscape designs. Check availability

• Doing your literature review : traditional and systematic techniques - For researchers from any academic background. Check availability

DVDs

• The West Wing : the complete first season - A behind the scenes, fictional look at the White house.Check availability

• Freakonomics : the movie - "Six rogue film-makers explore the hidden side of everything."Check availability
• Writing with: Aboriginal and settler interrelationships and identity - Explores the suppression of indigenous voices within the communities of Australia. Check availability
• Just like you : a guide to etiquette and communicating with people with a disability - How to communicate effectively and appropriately with people with disabilities. Check availability
• Long long time ago realisation - a metaphor about modern Australia and the search for an identity. Check availability
• Australian cinema collection. Vol 1 - 12 Australian classics. Check availability

• Babies -A look at one year in the life of four babies from around the world. Check availabilty

For more great resources in all subject areas, check the complete list of new titles.