Australian National Botanic Gardens
LIBRARY BULLETIN
LIBRARY BULLETIN
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Australian National Botanic Gardens LIBRARY BULLETIN |
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New in the ANBG Library
The Gardens’ Library is located on the first floor of the Botany Building at the ANBG, Clunies Ross Street, Black Mountain.
Opening hours are 9.30am to 4.30pm, Monday to Friday. Members of the public may use the library by appointment.
The bulletin contains a list of new material recently received in the library. These items together with recent issues of journals and magazines are on display in the ANBG Library for approximately three to four weeks. All registered library clients are welcome to use the library and photocopy display items or reserve items for loan.
Staff may request items from the bulletin by phone, fax or email.
Phone: (02) 6250 9480
Fax: (02) 6250 9432
Email: ANBG.library@environment.gov.au
BOOKS & PAMPHLETS
Contact 2008/09
Canberra : Citizens Advice Bureau ACT, [2008]
Handbook contains descriptions of nearly 3,000 organisations in and around the ACT which offer not-for-profit services to the community as part, or all, of their charter.
Ref 068.947 CON
Kakadu National Park visitor guide
[ Canberra]: Director of National Parks, 2008
51 p. booklet
P 333.7830994295 KAK
Charles Darwin’s big idea: the revolutionary theory of evolution
Robin Stewart
Flemington, Vic : Hyland House, 2005
For primary and secondary school students
576.82092 DAR
Urban habitat guidelines for the ACT , 2 nd ed.
Beth Mitchell ; [with contributions from Craig Cosgrove, ANBG]
[ Canberra]: ANUgreen, Australian National University, 2008
Limited copies available from the ANBG Visitor Information Centre. Also available via the Internet at:http://www.lifeinthesuburbs.net.au/res/File/PDFs/Urban_Habitat_Guidelines_for_the_ACT.pdf
577.56099471 MIT
Ecological character description: Blue Lake Ramsar site
Sydney : Dept of Environment and Climate Change (NSW), 2008
“Ecological character has been defined as the combination of the ecosystem components, processes and benefits/services that characterize the wetland at a given point”. This document covers the Blue Lake and Hedley Tarn in Kosciuszko National Park.
577.68099447 ECO
Ecological character description: Lake Pinaroo Ramsar site.
Sydney : Dept of Environment and Climate Change (NSW), 2008
Lake Pinaroo Ramsar site is located in Sturt National Park, far north-west NSW.
577.68099449 ECO
Native plant species at risk from bitou bush invasion: a field guide for New South Wales
Mark A. Hamilton, Marion A. Winkler and Paul O. Downey
Sydney : Dept of Environment and Climate Change (NSW), 2008
581.680994 HAM
Flora of tropical east Africa. Aspleniaceae
H.J. Beentje
Kew : Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, 2008
581.9676 FLO
Native plants
Cathy Hope and Steve Parish
Archerfield, Qld : Steve Parish Publishing, 2008 (A Wild Australia guide)
581.994 HOP
Nymph Island (Great Barrier Reef, QLD, Australia): flora and vegetation of a low wooded island
Jacques R. De Sloover, Anne-Laure Jacquemart
Louvain-la-Neuve : National Botanic Garden of Belgium, 2008 (Scripta botanica belgica; vol. 43)
581.99438 DES
In celebration of Dr. John J. Engel: a tribute to 40 years in bryology
Editors: Matt von Konrat, Sabine Huhndorf
Chicago : Field Museum of Natural History, 2008 (Fieldiana. Botany, n.s., no. 47)
588 INC
A field manual for surveying and mapping nationally significant weeds , 2 nd ed.
I. McNaugh et al.
Canberra : Bureau of Rural Sciences, 2008
Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at:http://affashop.gov.au/product.asp?prodid=13948
632.50994 FIE
Correa cultivars
Maria Hitchcock
[S.l. : ASGAP Correa Study Group], 2008
List of cultivars prepared Autumn 2008.
P 635.93377 HIT
Australian plants for gardens in the sun , Rev. ed.
Rodger Elliot
Dural Delivery Centre, NSW : Rosenberg, 2008
635.95194 ELL
The art of the First Fleet & other early Australian drawings
Editors: Bernard Smith & Alwyne Wheeler
Melbourne : Oxford University Press in association with the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the British Museum (Natural History), 1988
Contains works from the British Museum (Natural History).
From the collection of Helen Hewson.
741.994 BRI
The Lycett album: drawings of Aborigines and Australian scenery
Joseph Lycett; Commentary by Jeanette Hoorn
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1990
From the collection of Helen Hewson
741.994 LYC
Brush with Gondwana: the Botanical Artists Group Western Australia
Text by Janda Gooding; foreword by Stephen D. Hopper
Fremantle : Fremantle Press, 2008
Features the work of Rica Erickson, Pat Dundas, Ellen Hickman, Penny Leech, Philippa Nikulinsky, Margaret Pieroni, Katrina Syme.
758.42 GOO
The principles of drawing flowers & plants , 4 th ed.
F.W. Burbidge
London : Winsor & Newton, [187?]
From the collection of Helen Hewson.
Rare 743.7 BUR
Bill Baillie: his life and adventures
Ellis Rowan
Melbourne : Whitcombe and Tombs, 1908
Children’s story about a bandicoot. Includes 8 colour landscape images by the author.
From the collection of Helen Hewson.
Rare 823.3 ROW
Australian Institute of Marine Science 2007/08
Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation 2007/08
Cargill, D. Christine & Fuhrer, Bruce A 2008, ‘Taxonomic studies of the Australian Anthocerotophyta II: The genus Phaeoceros’, Fieldiana: Botany, n.s. vol 47, pp. 239-253.
Generate / Julie Ryder
Folder of material relating to the exhibition held at the ANBG, 2 Dec 2008 to 26 March 2009
Various articles on Charles Darwin
Conservation and adaptation to climate change / Cassandra Brooke, Conservation Biology , vol. 22(6), pp. 1471-1476
Discusses the role of "boundary organisations" in building shared understanding at the science-policy interface, NGOs mentioned specifically but also applicable to botanic gardens.
* Indicates a new listing
Alpine Ecology Course 2009
16-20 February 2009
Bogong High Plains and Falls Creek Resort
alpine.ecology@latrobe.edu.au
Ingredients for a Brighter Future.
Nursery & Garden Industry National Conference and Exhibition 09
18-19 February 2009
National Convention Centre, Canberra
Minding our own Biodiversity: Conservation on Private Land
2 nd National Forum, Australian Network for Plant Conservation
30 April – 1 May 2009
Halls Gap, The Grampians, Vic
http://www.anpc.asn.au/conferences.html
* “Botanic Gardens in the Age of Climate Change”
Eurogard V, Fifth European Botanic Gardens Congress
8-12 June 2009
Helsinki, Finland
http://www.luomos.fi/eurogardv
The Global Garden, APGA Conference
23-27 June 2009
St Louis, Missouri
http://www.publicgardens.org
* Barks, Birds & Billabongs : the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land 1948 Remembered
6-10 July 2009
National Museum of Australia, Canberra
http://www.nma.gov.au/barks_birds_billabongs
Charles Darwin University Symposium
22-24 September 2009
Darwin Convention Centre, NT
http://www.cdu.edu.au/cdss
* Australian Plants in the 21 st Century
Association of Societies for Growing Australian Plants Conference and Seminar
26 Sept – 2 October 2009
Convenor: Paul Kennedy, PO Box 220, Strathmerton VIC 3641
Ph (03) 5874 5239
Email hakeaholic@aapt.net.au
Action Learning: Places, Spaces and Partnerships for Biodiversity and Human Well-Being.
BGCI’s 7 th International Congress on Education in Botanic Gardens
1-6 November 2009
Durban Botanic Gardens
http://www.ebg2009.org.za
* 29 th International Seed Testing Congress
16-18 June 2010
Cologne, Germany
Call for papers http://www.ista-cologne2010.de