End of year closing for CSU Libraries

With Charles Sturt University closing for the end-of-year break, CSU's Australian Campus Libraries will be closed from 12.30 pm (AEDT) on Friday 23 December 2011 until 9.00 am (AEDT) on Tuesday 3 January 2012.

Ontario Campus Library will be closed from 12.30 pm on Friday 23 December to 9.00 am on Tuesday 3 January (local time).

A full list of Library opening hours is available online.

You won’t be able to contact us for help and assistance during closing times, but you can submit an enquiry using our Web-Form. These enquiries will be answered when the libraries re-open in January.

Library staff would like to wish CSU staff and students a happy and safe festive and holiday season.

Carbon Price Calculator

In 2012, Australia will introduce new laws that put a price and limit on carbon pollution, in what many people are calling the "carbon tax".

CHOICE, the Australian Council of Social Service, and The Climate Institute have teamed up to look at how a price on carbon pollution will affect the cost of living.

You can go to the new YourCarbonPrice website to get information on the carbon price and to use the online calculator to estimate your costs, financial support from the government, and the potential savings you can make from energy efficiency measures.

There is also a link to the Climate Institute website, which reports CSIRO-AECOM research that shows that the impacts of the carbon pollution price on Australian households is likely to be smaller than anticipated.

New eBooks

Each week the library adds 100's of new titles to the collection, this is a selection of new eBooks that have been added over recent weeks:

• Doing Your Research Project - A guide for first-time researchers in education, health and social science. Check Availability
• Essential Documents for School Libraries - Provides practical written and online solutions to common challenges in school libraries. Check Availability
• Social Work Education and Training - Covers the key debates surrounding social work education. Check Availability
• Applied Semantic Web Technologies - Integrates theory with case studies to illustrate the history, current state, and future direction of the semantic web. Check Availability
• Translation of Evidence into Nursing and Health Care Practice - Application to nursing and health care. Check Availability
• Evidence-Based Oral Health Promotion Resource - Summarises the most effective health promotion strategies for prevention of oral health problems. Check Availability
• Soil Hydrology, Land Use and Agriculture - Measurement and modelling. Check Availability
• Birth Models that Work - A worldwide search for birth models that work in order to improve the standard of care for mothers. Check Availability
• Health-Promoting Properties of Fruits and Vegetables - An essential resource for researchers and students in food science, nutrition and fruit and vegetable production. Check Availability
• Equipping Young People to Choose Non-Violence - A violence reduction programme. Check Availability
• A Student's Writing Guide - How to plan and write successful essays. Check Availability
• Got a Minute? - The 9 Lessons Every HR Professional Must Learn to Be Successful. Check Availability
• 2012 Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market - A must-have reference guide for emerging artists Check Availability
• Justice, Crime and Ethics - Examines the ethical dilemmas pertaining to the administration of criminal justice Check Availability

The complete list of new titles can be found here

Farewell to SmartSearch

Access to the Library SmartSearch service will cease on Tuesday 13 December 2011.

SmartSearch has been replaced with the new ‘http://www.csu.edu.au/division/library/find-info/search@csu-library’ that enables CSU staff and students to simultaneously search for print and electronic resources. Books, journals, journal articles, and other digital resources, e.g. CSU Research Output (CRO), CSU theses, can be found using a simple intuitive search tool, with more advanced search functions available if required.

Staff and students who have saved searches, alerts or records to the eShelf, in SmartSearch, will need to record these details and re-create the saved searches etc. in ‘Search@CSU Library’.

Please contact the Library if you require assistance using ‘Search@CSU Library’

Changes to Informit (database) Collections

On 3 January 2012, 256 Australian journal titles in the Informit databases will be migrated to different collections in order to 'minimise duplication and create more subject-specific Informit Collections'.

Existing links to these articles will no longer work. Please check existing Informit links in your online teaching materials and update if necessary. RMIT Publishing has produced a list of titles displaying the old and new URLs for each title.

Titles affected by these changes include:

• Australian Indigenous Law Review

• Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy


• AQ: Australian Quarterly


• Australian Journal of Social Issues


• Australasian Journal of Environmental Management
  

Please contact one of the Library faculty liaison staff if you need more information, or assistance with updating links to articles in these Informit journals.

Highlights Of New Titles Recently Added To The Library Collection

BOOKS:

• The Expert Library - Staffing, sustaining, and advancing the academic library in the 21st century. Check Availability
• War, Torture and Terrorism - Rethinking the rules of international security. Check Availability
• Anatomy and Physiology - From science to life. Check Availability
• Blackwell's Five-Minute Veterinary Consult - Canine and feline. Check Availability
• Future of the Internet - Social networks, policy issues, and learning tools. Check Availability
• The Impossibility of Perfection - Aristotle, feminism, and the complexities of ethics. Check Availability
• Teaching Generation Text - Using cell phones to enhance learning. Check Availability
• Asian American Education - Identities, racial issues, and languages. Check Availability
• Periodontal Management of Children, Adolescents and Young Adults - a step-by-step approach to periodontal diagnosis and management. Check Availability
• Australian Wine Vintages - 2012. Check Availability
• Learn Marketing with Social Media in 7 Days - Master Facebook, LinkedIn & Twitter for business. Check Availability
• The Ballroom : The Melbourne Punk and Post-Punk Scene - A tell all memoir. Check Availability

DVD's:

• Bridesmaids - Drama. Check Availability
• The Trip - Drama. Check Availability
• Water for Elephants - Drama/Romance. Check Availability
• Happy Feet - Animation. Check Availability
• Balibo - Drama. Check Availability
• Atonement - Drama. Check Availability
• Mad City - Hostage/Drama. Check Availability
• The Lovely Bones - Murder/Drama. Check Availability
• Downton Abbey - Season one. Check Availability
• Rebel Without A Cause - James Dean/Natalie Wood. Check Availability
• Little Women - Classic Drama. Check Availability

The complete list of new titles can be found here