Happy Halloween!!

This year Halloween falls on Monstrous Monday- the perfect night for a freaky film or haunting read!

Macabre Movies:

• The Ring Check Availability
• True Blood Series 1 Check Availability
• The Others Check Availability
• The Birds Check Availability
• Psycho Check Availability
• Sleepy Hollow Check Availability
• Underworld Check Availability
• Creature from the Black Lagoon Check Availability
• Nosferatu Check Availability
• Rocky Horror Picture Show Check Availability
• Silence of the Lambs Check Availability
• Alien Check Availability
• Poltergeist Check Availability

Blood-curdling Books:

Nefarious Non-Fiction:

• The Exorcist (critique) by Mark Kermode Check Availability
• Beyond Dracula: Bram Stoker's fiction and its cultural context by William Hughes Check Availability
• Horror zone : the cultural experience of contemporary horror cinema edited by Ian Conrich Check Availability
• Hollywood horror : from gothic to cosmic by Mark A. Vieira Check Availability
• Death makes a holiday: A cultural history of Halloween by David J. Skal Check Availability
• Halloween From Pagan Ritual to Party Night by Nicholas Rogers

Frightening fiction:

• Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice Check Availability
• The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty Check Availability
• Dracula by Bram Stoker Check Availability
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Check Availability

Ghostly Tales for little goblins:

• The Halloween pumpkin by Pamela Oldfield Check Availability
• The Halloween witch : a play by Marjorie Thayer Check Availability
• Scary party by Sue Hendra Check Availability
• Halloween party by Harriet Ziefert Check Availability
• My tricks & treats : Halloween stories, songs, poems, recipes, crafts, and fun for kids by Carin and Joan Dewhirst Check Availability
• Franklin's Halloween by Paulette Bourgeois Check Availability

Wicked Websites:

• History. com- Halloween
• Neopagan
• True Ghost Tales
• Halloween Australia
• Family Fun
• Halloween-website

Upgrading the Passenger Lift

CSU Bathurst will be upgrading the passenger lift in building C03 Learning Commons from today to approximately the 28th November 2011. The lift will not be available during this time.

The 24 hour learning commons space has an entrance without steps from the eastern side of the building (near the teaching rooms) with an accessible car park adjacent to building S7.A temporary service will be provided though student central between 9am-5pm Monday to Friday on the ground floor to enable students who cannot use the stairs to borrow library items.

Thank you in advance for your patience with these circumstances. The works to the lift are vital and will greatly enhance the operation, reliability and accessibility of this lift.

ProQuest Database Downtime

CSU Library subscribes to a number of ProQuest databases including ANZ Newsstand, ProQuest Science Journals, ProQuest Natural Science Collection, ProQuest Religion, CBCA Complete, and Dissertations & Theses: Full Text.

We have been advised that all ProQuest products will be unavailable for a 12 hour period commencing Sunday 23 October at 1 pm (AEDT), while infrastructure maintenance is carried out.

On behalf of ProQuest, we apologise for any inconvenience.

Highlights Of New Titles Recently Added To The Library Collection

• Head First iPhone and iPad Development - A Learner's Guide to Creating Objective-C Applications for the iPhone and iPa. Check Availability

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

• Anthropology - Appreciating human diversity. Check Availability

• Environmental Science - Understanding our
  changing Earth. Check Availability

• Fashion at Royal Ascot - Three centuries of thoroughbred style. Check Availability

• Medical-Surgical Nursing - Critical thinking in client care. Check Availability

• Ben Behind His Voices - One family's journey from the chaos of schizophrenia to hope. Check Availability

• Periodontal-Restorative Interrelationships - Ensuring clinical success. Check Availaiblity

• Pushing for Midwives - Homebirth mothers and the reproductive rights movement. Check Availability

• Weeds - How vagabond plants gatecrashed civilisation and changed the way we think
  about nature. Check Availability

• Diversity Amid Globalization - World regions, environment, development. Check Availability

• James Cook Journal of Proceedings at Endeavour River - 11 June-14 August 1770. Check Availability

The complete list of new titles is here

Managing Your Search Results in Search@CSU Library

Do you need to find multiple journal articles or books for a literature review or other research? Search@CSU Library offers several easy and timesaving methods for managing your search results.

With Search@CSU Library, you can:

• Email your search results – to yourself, and/or to other people ;
• Organise your search results into separate folders ;
• Save your favourite search queries, with the option to receive updates when new relevant items become available – very useful for long-term research projects.

Email your search results

1. Make sure you are logged in to Search@CSU Library :

2. Perform your search. Add specific items to ‘My Folder’ by clicking on the icon to the left of each title :

3. Click on ‘My Folder’ at the top right-hand side of the screen to display My Folder contents:

4. Click on the check boxes next to the title(s) you wish to email (1)., then click on ‘e-mail’ (2.):

5. A new window will appear on your screen. Type in your email address, and check ‘save this e-mail address in my preferences’ to make this your default email address. Then click ‘send’.

The email will include a brief description of the item, with a link that will take the recipient straight to the catalogue record to either view the full text or request a loan or copy.


Organise your search results into separate folders

1. Follow steps 1 to 3 above.

2. To add new folders: in the box to the left-hand side of your ‘My Folder’ contents, click on the ‘New Folder’ icon:

3. ‘New Folder’ will appear as the default name. Type in a new name for your folder. Press Enter or click ‘Save’.

To move items to/from folders: check the box next to the title(s) you wish to move. Drag and drop the item into the appropriate folder.

Copy, paste , delete and rename folders by clicking on the appropriate folder and then selecting an action icon (1.)

Cut, copy and paste individual items by checking the box next to the item, then select the appropriate action icons (2.):



Save your favourite search queries, with option to receive email updates for new items

1. Make sure you are logged in to Search@CSU Library.

2. Perform your search. At the bottom of the search results screen, click on ‘Save query’:


3. A new window will appear on your screen. Type a name for your query in the ‘Search name’ box. If you wish to receive email updates for new relevant items, click on the ‘save and alert’ radio button. Click on the orange ‘save’ button, and then close the window.

4. Click on ‘My folder’, then the ‘Search history’ tab. Your saved search query will appear :

Click on the individual query’s ‘search name’ to bring up your saved search.

At this screen, you can also change your email update preferences or delete your saved search(es).

Highlights Of New Titles Added To The Library Collection This Week

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

• Participatory Journalism - Guarding open gates at online newspapers. Check Availability

• Social and Personality Development - An advanced textbook. Check Availability

• Not Quite a Teacher - Target practice for beginning teachers. Check Availability

• Nursing for Public Health - Promotion, principles, and practice. Check Availability

• The Physiotherapist's Pocket Book - Essential facts at your fingertips. Check Availability

• Qualitative Research Methods in Mental Health and Psychotherapy - A guide for students and practitioners. Check Availability

• Dental Radiography - Principles and techniques. Check Availability

• Shaping Change - Natural resource management, agriculture and the role of extension. Check Availability

• Fowler's Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine - Current therapy. Check Availability

• The Marketer's Handbook - Reassessing marketing techniques for modern business. Check Availability

• Datura Highway / Daniel King - Fiction. Check Availability

• Bed / Brendan Cowell - Theater - Australia. Check Availability

• There Should Be More Dancing / Rosalie Ham - Fiction. Check Availability

• In a Glass Darkly / J. Sheridan Le Fanu - Fiction. Check Availability

The complete list of new titles can be found here