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.

 

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.

 

Search all the National Library… and more

The National Library of Australia has announced its new “Single Business Discovery Service” in Beta mode.  Despite the wordy name this is a single easy access point to a variety of Australian catalogues, directories and collections.  For this initial version there are a range of data sources including: the Australian National Bibliographic Database, Australian Newspapers, Picture Australia, the ARROW Discovery Service, and Pandora. The new service also provides the discovery interface for the People Australia initiative and some external sources of data such as OAIster, Open Library, the Hathi Trust, the Internet Archive and the Library of Congress tables of contents, publishers’ descriptions and sample book chapters.
This is set to be really useful, so if you have any suggestions or comments please make them – so iwe get the best service possible!

To have a look, a play, and to use it – <a href=”http://sbdsproto.nla.gov.au/”>http://sbdsproto.nla.gov.au/</a>

 

Roger Coates Labour History Research Grant

Roger Coates Labour History Research Grant – up to $10,000

Applications are invited from people currently engaged in (or about to commence) a research project dealing with Australian labour history.

The Roger Coates Labour History Research Grant will assist with the cost of such projects, with priority to projects with good prospects of publication or other public use, but without access to other funding.

The SEARCH Foundation is auspicing the Roger Coates Labour History Research Grant. It is an independent, non-profit foundation established to promote social justice, environmental sustainability and the development of a more democratic and egalitarian society. Details of its aims and objectives are available on request.

Suitably qualified applicants should contact the SEARCH Foundation for detailed application guidelines.

Applications must be received by
July 31, 2009
Social Education and Research Concerning Humanity (SEARCH) Foundation. Level 3, 110 Kippax St, SURRY HILLS NSW 2010
Ph: (02) 9211 4164; Fax: (02) 9211 1407

 

Displays in the library

There is a display on the ground floor of the library to help commemorate Reconciliation Week. This includes posters and materials promoting or about reconciliation and the history of black/white relations in Australia.

There is also a display from the Queensland State Archives about South Pacific indentured workers (‘kanakas’) in Queensland.

 

New book alert

To find new books in the QUT Library collection go to the Recently added titles page. You can click on Humanities or any other faculty or school to see what has come in. You can even get an RSS feed so you can be notified when new titles arrive.

To get to the page click on More in the About the Library section of the Library Home Page and then choose Recently Added Titles… or just click on this URL – http://www.library.qut.edu.au/about/recentlyaddedtitles.jsp

To find out more about RSS you might enjoy the RSS in Plain English video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU .

 

Searching for journals

You can now search for journals from the library homepage. From the Quick Catalogue search on the left hand side, click on the drop down menu. This will find all journals held at QUT and link to the fulltext of those that we get electronically.

For more assistance with finding journal articles/conference papers/electronic newspapers etc., go to http://www.library.qut.edu.au/learn/type/journalarticles.jsp