Christmas Closure

CSU Library will be closed for business from 12:30pm Thursday December 24 until Monday January 4th.

During this time, the CSU Library Catalogue and all online resources (journal databases, ebooks etc) will be available for use, unless stated otherwise in the News section on the Library Homepage.

Unfortunately the contact points for CSU Library, such as Live Chat, Library Forum, Ask a Question and the 1800 phone will not be monitored during this time.

Be sure to check your loans via My Library Record, as any items which were due December 25-January 3 are automatically extended until January 4. If you need to renew your loans, please do so to avoid fines after January 4.

Any hold requests placed or messages left during this period will be handled as soon as possible on January 4. Any inconvenience caused is regretted, and your understanding is appreciated.

The staff at CSU Library would like to wish all our patrons a Merry Christmas and a safe holiday season. We look forward to providing all your information needs in 2010, as another big year of study, research and teaching is planned.

The Howard Years

How much difference did the Howard government make to Australian society? Read the commentary by Rodney Tiffen and Ross Gittins in Inside Story. (Text adapted from AustralianPolicyOnline)

The Future of Research is Here - CCH IntelliConnect

IntelliConnect™ is CCH Online's revolutionary new platform that will transform the way that you do research.
CCH, with the help of tax and accounting professionals, have developed a familiar and intuitive user interface that offers the same ease of use found in today’s most popular consumer Web search engines.
The biggest change is the "federated search" box at the top which will search everything on CCH at once. You do not have to know what practice book or even what subject you want to search. Users can simply type in search terms to quickly access CCH's world-class online tax content.
Filters and browse functions let users locate and view exactly what they need. If you are looking for a specific topic, click on Browse in the upper left hand corner. Clicking on Browse will also take you to the indexes, which are great finding tools.
Functions of this flexible new platform include:

• Google® like search function with filters to easily narrow results
• Multiple tab searching to retrieve relevant results faster than before
• Print and email PDF's with active links to content
• Save searches and create research folders with notes
• View and retrieve your search history for past 60 days
• Intuitive layout complete with extensive ‘in context’ help resources
• Individual user customisation
  
  

Library Catalogue Upgrade

The Division of Library services has recently upgraded the Library Catalogue system, and as a result, most users will experience better performance. However for a few, there may be some initial issues.

If you find that the library catalogue is not performing how it should for you, please contact the library immediately with the following information:

• a screen dump of the problem if possible
  
• browser type (Internet Explorer, Firefox etc), and


• how you are accessing the catalogue (from the Library homepage, from my.csu etc.).

Contact the Library on 1800 808 369 (within Australia).

Is the Carnival over?

Why are festivals so popular in Australia? Click here to read the article by Ben Eltham in the latest issue of Meanjin. (Text adapted from AustralianPolicyOnline)

LibraryNews@CSU - Dec 09 Edition

The latest edition of LibraryNews@CSU is now available to download.

Featured is:

• CSU Research Output (CRO)
• The new Orange Learning Commons
• Digital Library Usability Lab at Wagga
• New eResources
• and much more.

Past editions of LibraryNews are also available to download.

Library System Upgrade

The Library is upgrading the Library Management System (Aleph) to improve services to staff and students. Work on the upgrade will commence on Sunday 6th of December and is due to be completed on Thursday 10th of December.


The library catalogue will be unavailable between 5pm Sunday 6th of December and 8am Monday 7th of December.


Until Thursday 10th, users will NOT be able to access their library record [My Library Record], renew loans or request books via the catalogue during this period. If you wish to request books or renew loans during this change over period, please contact your campus Library, where library staff will manually process requests


Freecall from landlines within Australia: 1800 808 369
Ask a Question Web Form

Bathurst: +61 02 6338 4723
Orange: +61 026365 7593
Wagga Wagga: +61 02 6933 2343
Albury-Wodonga: +61 02 6051 9812
Dubbo: +61 02 6885 7305
Ontario: +1* 905 333 4955

We apologise for any inconvenience during this change over period.

Google Dictionary

In the world of dictionaries, people have always had their trusted source – Oxford, Cambridge, Macquarie… Google? The number of online dictionaries has rapidly increased and a recent article on ZDNet.com suggests that Google has improved its dictionary so much that all it could mean the end to other online dictionary services:

“Although google.com/dictionary used to provide aggregated definitions for words from various dictionary resources online, it’s now a full-blown dictionary tool that leverages Google’s translation technology and provides concise definitions and synonyms.”

Read the rest of the article on the ZDNet Education page.

Growing up in Australia

Growing up in Australia. This longitudinal study collects information about children and their families including children’s academic ability, their health and emotional wellbeing, parenting, family functioning, early childhood care, and education and schooling. (Text adapted from AustralianPolicyOnline) Read the full report here

Albury Library is on the Move

Removalist have started working on relocating the collection in the Albury Library to Thurgoona. The Albury Library is now closed permanently as of today Friday 4th December however, book returns can continue to be made until Monday 7th December.

New eBooks for Indigenous Studies - available anywhere, anytime!

With Indigenous Studies to be included in every course from 2010, the Library has added hundreds of eBooks that are specifically relevant to indigenous issues. There are many new and recent titles, plus a lot of useful older titles, now available online. Here are just a few of the many titles now available:

• Aboriginal Victorians : a history since 1800 / Richard Broome - Check availability
• Black Founders : The Unknown Story of Australia's First Black Settlers by Cassandra Pybus - Check availability

• Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts : Indigenous Health in Northern Australia / Tess Lee - Check availability
• Dhuuluu-Yala - to straight talk : Publishing Indigenous Literature /Anita Heiss - Check availability
• Isabel Flick : The many lives of an extraordinary Aboriginal woman / Isabel Flick - Check availability
• First peoples : Indigenous Peoples and their futures / Jeffrey Sissons - Check availability
• High lean country : land, people and memory in New England / Alan Atkinson- Check availability

• Lost World of the Kimberley : Extraordinary glimpses of Australia's ice age ancestors /Ian Wilson - Check availability
• Mutton Fish : The surviving culture of Aboriginal people and abalone on the south coast of NSW / Beryl Cruse - Check availability
• The Politics of Official Apologies / Melissa Nobles - Check availability
• Reconciliation and colonial power : indigenous rights in Australia / Damien Short - Check availability
• Rights for Aborigines / Bain Attwood - Check availability

• Seven Seasons in Aurukun : My Unforgettable Time at a Remote Aboriginal School / Paula Shaw- Check availability
• Tourism and indigenous peoples : issues and implications / Richard Butler and Tom Hinch - Check availability
• Trauma trails, recreating song lines : the transgenerational effects of trauma in Indigenous Australia / Judy Atkinson - Check availability
• Uncommon ground : white women in Aboriginal history / Anna Cole - Check availability

• Unfinished constitutional business? : rethinking indigenous self-determination / Barbara Hocking - Check availability
• Where the ancestors walked : Australia as an Aboriginal landscape / Philip Clarke - Check availability