October Long Weekend Opening Hours

Over the October Long Weekend (1st - 3rd October 2011), most CSU campus libraries will be open Sunday and Monday from 1.30 pm – 5.00 pm providing access to the library collection and basic lending services. The 24 hour areas will continue to remain open for computer and printer access.

Normal services (including Live Chat and our 1800 number) will resume from the 4th of October. Please see the Library Website to view the hours of each Campus.

Don't forget you can still access all our online resources, including Journal Databases, Search@CSU Library, eBooks, and much more from the Library Website.

Problems With Content Displaying On Library Website

The library is experiencing issues with content displaying from the Online Reference and Subject Support pages, the Delicious links are not displaying on some pages.

In the meantime you can still access this content through Delicious. For example: Online Reference>Dictionaries & Thesauruses>for more useful links, see: CSU Library's Online Reference Bookmarks on Delicious.

The problem seems to have occurred when the new owners of Delicious relaunched the site with many changes that seems to have affected the links to the library's website.

YouTube Founders Relaunch Delicious

The library is endeavouring to have this rectified as soon as possible.

Highlights Of New Titles

Each week the library adds 100's of new titles to the collection,
here is a selection of these titles:

• Reference and Information Services in the 21st Century - An introduction. Check Availability

• Barbaric Civilization - A critical sociology of genocide. Check Availability

• International Child Abduction - The inadequacies of the law. Check Availability

• A Life Saver for New Teachers - Mentoring case studies to navigate the initial years. Check Availability

• Weeds of the South-East - An identification guide for Australia. Check Availability

• The Pharmacy Leadership Field Guide - Cases and advice for everyday situations. Check Availability

• Paramedic Practice Today - Above and beyond. Check Availability
  

• Small Animal Surgical Nursing - Skills and concepts. Check Availability

• Birdscaping Australian Gardens - A guide to native plants and the garden birds they attract. Check Availability

• Managing Human Resources - Productivity, quality of work life, profits. Check Availability

• Making Radio - A practical guide to working in radio in the digital age. Check Availability

• Mapping Your Thesis - The comprehensive manual of theory and techniques for masters and doctoral research. Check Availability

• Red Dog (fiction) - An utterly charming tale of an amazing dog with places to go and people to see. Check Availability

• Still Alice (fiction) - A novel. Check Availability

• Shot by Both Sides (fiction) - A novel. Check Availability

View the complete list of new titles here

Banned Books Week- Celebrate the Freedom to Read!

Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read and the importance of open access to information and literature despite the nature of its content.
This annual event was started in the USA in protest to the attempts to ban controversial books and to draw attention to the dangers of censorship and the importance of freedom of expression.

Why not join in this week by reading a banned or challenged book from CSU Library:

• Angels and Demons by Dan Brown Check Availability
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Check Availability
• Bowling For Columbine (film) by Michael Moore Check Availability
• The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Check Availability
• The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger Check Availability
• Child of God by Cormac McCarthy Check Availability
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker Check Availability
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Check Availability
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey Check Availability

Websites:

To find out more about Banned Books week or find other challenged or banned books visit the ALA website.

The University of Melbourne have also published a list of books that have been banned in Australia.

Download from Microfilm to USB for free!

CSU Library has access to thousands of journal and newspaper articles via microfilm. The microfilm readers at our Albury, Bathurst and Wagga Wagga campuses can now save direct from microfilm to your USB drive - no need to print, and at no cost to you.
Instructions have been placed at the microfilm readers or see our friendly loans desk staff for assistance.

Indigenous Resources Recently Added To The Library Collection

Books:

• Aboriginal Environmental Knowledge - Rational reverence. Check Availability

• Indigenous Research Methodologies - The first research methods textbook that situates research in a larger, historical, cultural, and global context. Check Availability

• Joan Martin (Yarrna) - A Widi woman. Check Availability

• Playground - Listening to stories from country and from inside the heart. Check Availability

• Boigu Island - Out of sight, out of mind. Check Availability

• The More Things Change - The origins and impact of Australian Indigenous economic exclusion. Check Availability

• Survival - A history of Aboriginal life in New South Wales. Check Availability

DVD's:

• Sunset to Sunrise - Check Availability

• Yellow Fella - Check Availability

• Through Our Eyes - Check Availability

• Working in Aboriginal Health - Check Availability

• Bungalung - Check Availability

• Aboriginal Art and Culture - Check Availability

• Green Bush - Check Availability

• Yolngu boy - Check Availability

The complete list of new titles can be found here

The 20 Most Iconic Book Covers Ever - What Do You Think?

To remember the good old days, and give a little nudge to the new, a list of the 20 most iconic book covers ever has been compiled, all examples of amazing book cover design. Click through to see the cover art chosen, and comment if any of your favourites have been missed.

Highlights Of New Titles Added To The Library Collection This Week

• Neal-Schuman Library Technology Companion - a Basic guide for library staff. Check Availability

• Forensic Investigations and Miscarriages of Justice - The rhetoric meets the reality. Check Availability

• Comparative Emergency Management - Examining global and regional responses to disasters. Check Availability

• 10 Best Teaching Practices - How brain research and learning styles define teaching competencies. Check Availability

• On Being a Pharmacist - True stories by pharmacists. Check Availability

• Vital Signs for Nurses - An introduction to clinical observations. Check Availability

• Electronic Business Interoperability - Concepts, opportunities and challenges. Check Availability

• Remembering Forward - Australian Aboriginal painting since 1960. Check Availability

• Understanding Single-Crystal X-ray Crystallography - Examines and explains this method to users with only modest mathematical backgrounds. Check Availability

• Oral Radiology - Principles and interpretation. Check Availability

The complete list of new titles can be accessed here

Journal Database Downtime: ScienceDirect

The ScienceDirect journal database will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance (by the database vendor, SciVerse) for approximately 11 hours on the 10th of September (from about 9.30pm AEST Saturday night.)

Two health-related eResources available on trial

CSU Library has negotiated a trial of 2 health-related eResources.

Nursing Education in Video provides 260 videos created specifically for the education and instruction of nurses, nursing assistants, and healthcare workers.


eTG: Electronic Therapeutic Guidelines provides health practitioners with treatment guidelines - both pharmacological and nonpharmacological - for common disorders found in clinical practice.


Both these eResources can be accessed from the Trial Databases page, and CSU Library welcomes feedback from staff and students, using this feedback form.


Please note that these eResources are available on trial during September 2011, so make sure to check these exciting new resources out and let us know what you think.

Indigenous Literacy Day and National Poetry Week

This week (5-11 of September) is National Poetry Week and today (7th of September) is the fifth Indigenous Literacy Day. To mark these occasions, why not check out some of the indigenous poetry resources available through the CSU Library.

Indigenous and Australian Poetry Books:

• Etchings Indigenous : black and sexy : stories, poetry, interviews, reviews, photography, art by Janelle Moran, Coral Reeve, Christine Ward

• Crow feathers : an indigenous collection of poems and images by Rebecca Edwards , Janelle Evans

• Rimfire by Romaine Moreton, Alf Taylor, Michael J. Smith

• The strength from within : Sista Girl Yarnz by Sista Girl Yarnz Aboriginal Women's Group.

• See my world : writings by young Indigenous Australians by Northern Territory Writers' Centre

• Little Eva at Moonlight Creek : and other Aboriginal song poems by Robert M. W Dixon , Martin Duwell

• Poems and rhymes by Arron Richardson

• Dark secrets : after dreaming (AD) 1887-1961 by Jeanine Leane

• Fresh cuttings : a celebration of fiction and poetry from UQP's black writing series by Sandra Phillips, Sue Abbey

Websites:

• Indigenous Literacy Foundation
• Australian Poetry
  
• Northern Territory Writers' Centre
  
• Creative Spirits

Journals:

• Journal of Australian Studies
  
• Poetry World
• Literature Today
  
• Antipodes
  
• Aboriginal History

Australian Literature Databases:

• AustLit (Australian Literature Resource)
  
• AUSTGUIDE
  
• Australian Public Affairs - Full Text (APA-FT)

Indigenous Databases:

• Indigenous Collection
  
• Indigenous Australia
  
• Indigenous Studies Bibliography (AIATSIS)
  
• Australian Education Index - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Subset (AEI-ATSIS)

Highlights Of New Titles Recently Added To The Library Collection

Books:

• Adobe Photoshop CS5 - Introductory. Check Availability

• Religion and Ethics in a Globalizing World - Conflict, dialogue, and transformation. Check Availability

• The Architect of Kokoda : Bert Kienzle -The man who made the Kokoda trail. Check Availability

• Explaining Crime - A primer in criminological theory. Check Availability

• Clinical Skills for Pharmacists - A patient-focused approach. Check Availability

• Blackwell's Five-Minute Veterinary Consult Clinical Companion - Equine theriogenology. Check Availability

• Developing Technologies in E-Services, Self-Services and Mobile Communication - New concepts. Check Availability

• Research Methods in Psychology - Investigating human behavior. Check Availability

• International Law - Contemporary principles and practices. Check Availability

• The Future of Nursing - Leading change, advancing health. Check Availability

• Who Owns Football? - The governance and management of the club game worldwide. Check Availability

eBooks:

• 28 Business Thinkers Who Changed the World - The management gurus and mavericks who changed the way we think about business. Check Availability

• Being Indispensable - A school librarian’s guide to becoming an invaluable leader. Check Availability

• Teaching Students Thinking Skills - A framework for cognitive education in inclusive settings. Check Availability

• Evidence-Based Dentistry - Outlines the key concepts of evidencebased dentistry and illustrates the process from analysis to implementation using relevant clinical examples. Check Availability

• War on Words - Who Should Protect Journalists? Check Availability

The complete list of new titles can be found here

Informit Databases Unavailable On Sunday 4th September 2011

The Informit package of Australian databases and indexes are an important source of Australian journal and other academic material.

Informit have advised that all online databases will be unavailable on Sunday 4th September, 2011, from 6 am - 2 pm AEST, due to network maintenance at RMIT.

RMIT Publishing has apologised for any inconvenience.