Reconciliation week at QUT

QUT has a number of activities planned in relation to Reconciliation Week 2010. There is a ceremony on the 26th of May, with a presentation by Chris Lawrence of generation one. There will also be movie screenings and a display in the library. For more information see http://www.reconciliation.qut.edu.au/issues/recweek/index.jsp

 

KG Library Books moved to the Library Store

The Library Store has been completed and all low use KG books designated for Store have been moved there.
Books in Store are accessible by placing a Hold on them.
To allow for the building work during the Library refurbishment, books in the following Dewey ranges from KG have also been temporarily moved into the Store.
The Dewey ranges affected are;
200-299 Religion
400-499 Language
500-599 Science
810-899 Literature
900-999 Geography and History

While the books have already been physically moved into the Store, they have not yet had their location changed in the catalogue. This job will take time and will probably not be completed until the 19th of February.
What does this mean? If you need a book from Store and you cannot place a Hold on it because it has not yet had its location changed, you need to fill in a missing items form and Library staff will collect the book for you.

If you have any problems let me know and apologies for the inconvenience.

 

Copyright for HDR students

I recently attended a talk on copyright where the following publication was mentioned;
Copyright Guide for Research Students: What you need to know about copyright before depositing your electronic thesis in an online repository http://www.oaklaw.qut.edu.au/files/Copyright%20Guide%20for%20Research%20Students.pdf
It provides a clear, succinct explanation of copyright law and the issues HDR students and their supervisors need to be aware of.

 

A Statistical account of the seven colonies of Australasia

In response to increasing demand to access historical statistics on the Web, the Australian Bureau of Statistics has recently digitised an important compendium of Australian and New Zealand colonial data, A Statistical account of the seven colonies of Australasia.

A Statistical account of the seven colonies of Australasia (and its later title, Statistical account of Australia and New Zealand) was compiled between 1890 and 1904 by the New South Wales Statistician, Timothy A. Coghlan. The eleven volumes bring together statistics for each of the colonies of Australia and New Zealand and are complemented by analysis and commentary. The publication also includes chapters on political divisions, areas and boundaries, climate, parliaments and defence much like in the current Year Book Australia.

Coghlan’s expressed aim, as stated in the Preface to the first volume, was to ‘exhibit at a glance the position held by each Colony individually, and by the country as a whole, with regard to all matters connected with its moral and material welfare’.

The scanning process allows full-text searching capability once downloaded.

This title adds to a range of historical data which ABS has been progressively adding to its Website, including Demography bulletin which includes detailed population and vital statistics data for the period 1900 – 1971 and Labour reports, covering the period 1911 – 1997. See the full list of titles already available, as well as those which will be available later in the year.

 

QUT Library Links within Google Scholar have now been restored.

Great news!
In Google Scholar preferences, the correct option “Queensland University of Technology – Get fulltext @ QUT” is now visible again (QUT Library Links appear automatically for staff & students in our IP range, when connecting from on-campus).

For those of you who don’t know what I am referring to, Google Scholar has automatic Links to QUT Library holdings from QUT IP addresses. For the last couple of months this has not been working and has been sorely missed.
If you are off campus and wish to set up Google Scholar to access this link just follow these steps from Google Scholar;

• Click on Scholar Preferences.
• Type Queensland University of Technology in the ‘Library Links’ section.
• Click Save preferences.
• Start searching with links to your library’s resources (you may need to authenticate yourself to access these resources).

You can select to link to any library you like.

 

New Indigenous Library resources can be now flagged by RSS feed

If you like to keep up to date with new additions to the Library collection, this feature is for you. We now have a featured list and RSS feed for Indigenous Australian resources in our Library Catalogue.  See http://www.library.qut.edu.au/about/recentlyaddedtitles.jsp#indigenous  if you would like to subscribe to the feed, or click on View Recently Added Titles from the Library catalogue http://libcat.qut.edu.au/ to access new titles feeds on all subject areas.

 

Stronger Smarter Summit

Stronger Smarter Summit will be held in Brisbane on 28 & 29 September 2009.

It is hoped that this inspiring and informative inaugural event will commence the revolution and turn the tide on Indigenous Education outcomes.

 

Black History month

August is Black History Month in Brisbane.  Activities include lectures, movies, presentations and debates.

For more information go to www.ourbrisbane.com/blackhistorymonth

 

Call for papers – History of Labour Relations in Queensland from 1859 to 2009 Conference

History of Labour Relations in Queensland from 1859 to 2009 Conference Friday, 11 December 2009, Brisbane Papers are invited on all aspects of labour relations in Queensland. For more information and submission details, go to http://www.deir.qld.gov.au/industrial/labourrelations/index.htm

 

AIATSIS Library

The AIATSIS Library (http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/library)  holds the most comprehensive collection of print materials on Australian Indigenous studies in the world.  If a trip to Canberra is not possible, you can contact them and receive assistance via phone or email. 

In addition to the catalogue of  their resources, there are also some VERY useful finding aids.  These cover such areas as biographies, social justice, Stolen Generation and substance use.   http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/library/subject_guides__bibliographies

The language bibliographies provide references for linguistic and cultural information pertaining to individual language groups.  These are very detailed – the bibliography for Jagara/Yuggera is over fifty pages!  http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/library/subject_guides__bibliographies/language_bibliographies