Australian National Botanic Gardens   LIBRARY BULLETIN

June 2009

last month: May

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

“Carta di Siracusa” on Biodiversity.
2009
The G8 Ministers of the Environment, together with eleven partners (including Australia,) at a meeting in Syracuse on 22-24 April 2009 adopted the "Carta di Siracusa".
Also available via the Internet at:http://www.cbd.int/doc/g8/g8-2009-04-23-chair-summary-en.pdf
P 333.9516 CAR

Micrographia, or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and inquiries thereupon
Robert Hooke
New York : Dover Publications, 1961 (Facsimile, originally published 1665)
From the collection of Helen Hewson.
502.82 HOO

Plantlife of the West Darling, 2 nd ed.
Albert Morris
Broken Hill : Barrier Field Naturalists’ Club, 1975
Albert Morris’ work is the subject of the Powerhouse Museum exhibition “The Greening of the Silver City”, on display at the ANBG Visitor Centre from 4th June to 26 th August 2009.
581.99449 MOR

No legs or many : spineless and wild
Laura Levens
Upper Beaconsfield,Vic. : Upper Beaconsfield Conservation Group, 2007
Pictorial guide to invertebrates found in grassy woodland areas near Upper Beaconsfield.
ABRS 592.099452 LEV

Handbook of the mammals of the world. 1. Carnivores
Chief eds.: Don E Wilson, Russell A Mittermeier
Barcelona : Lynx, 2009
Published in association with Conservation International and IUCN, first in an 8 volume series. This authoritative 727 p. work includes numerous colour photographs.
ABRS 599 HAN

Hortguide 2009
Cleveland, Qld : Agricultural Publishers, 2009
Guide to horticultural products, services and organizations.
Ref 635 HOR

A medieval flower garden
Jenny de Gex
London : Pavilion Books, 1995
From the collection of Helen Hewson.
635.0902 DEG

Potpourris and other fragrant delights
Jacqueline Heriteau
Harmondsworth, England : Penguin, 1975
From the collection of Helen Hewson.
668.542 HER

Gardens in time : in the footsteps of Edna Walling
Trisha Dixon & Jennie Churchill
North Ryde, NSW : Collins/Angus & Robertson, 1990
712.60994 WAL

Charles Darwin down under 1836
Booklet from the exhibition at the State Library of New South Wales 4 April to 26 July, curated by Paul Brunton.
Sydney : State Library of New South Wales, 2009
P 919.4042 STA

AUDIOVISUAL

Impressions of a year in the Australian National Botanic Gardens
Canberra : Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, 2009
DVD slide show running for about 20 minutes. “It displays about 190 pictures of Australian native plants in flower through the four seasons of the year. The pictures were all taken in the Australian National Botanic Gardens by a group of volunteers and a staff member" - from back cover.
AV 580.739471 IMP

REPRINTS AND VERTICAL FILE

A daily journal of taxonomy for rapid species discovery / Zhi-Quiang Zhang
Zootaxa, vol. 2120, 2009, pp. 1-2. [Announcement on the 8 th anniversary of the launch of the journal Zootaxa that it is to be published daily.]

Advantages of volunteer-based biodiversity monitoring in Europe / Dirk S Schmeller et al.
Conservation Biology, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 307-316

Citizen science breaks new ground / Rachel Sullivan
Ecos, no 149, June-July 2009, pp. 10-13

An ecologist calls for citizen-science ‘Wiki’ / Lucas N Joppa
Nature, vol. 459, no. 7247, 4 June 2009, p. 619
(Discussion at http://blogs.nature.com/nature/journalclub )

Mountain ash best for carbon / Bridie Smith
The Age, 16 th June 209, p. 5
( Victoria’s mountain ash forests are the best in the world at storing carbon according to researchers who compared the state’s forests with more than 130 others around the globe.)

ANNUAL REPORTS

Society for Growing Australian Plants Queensland Region 2009
University of Cambridge. University Botanic Garden 2007-2008

BIOGRAPHICAL FILES

Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin : an inspiring plant biologist and author (editorial)/ Rana Munns
Functional Plant Biology, vol. 36, 2009, p. iii
Also available via the Internet at:http://www.publish.csiro.au/?nid=102

Charles Darwin’s plant biology / Rosemary Purdie
Functional Plant Biology, vol. 36, 2009, pp. 481-489
Also available via the Internet at:http://www.publish.csiro.au/?nid=102

Bernard Fennessy, 1923-2006
ACT Planning and Land Authority street names in the new suburb of Forde have a theme of community service. Fennessy Way is “named after Bernard Fennessy, a volunteer guide at the Australian National Botanic Gardens who narrated 100 books to help the visually impaired”.

Gerald McCraith, 1909-2009
Obituaries: The Orchadian, vol. 16, no. 4, 2009; Journal of the Orchid Society of South Australia, vol. 33, no. 5, June 2009, p. 49.

Alison McCusker, Honorary Associate ABRS
OAM (Medal of the Order of Australia) in the General Division, 8 June 2009 “for service to science through the cataloguing of Australian flora”.

Dick Schodde, Honorary Associate ABRS
OAM (Medal of the Order of Australia) in the General Division, 8 June 2009 “for service to science, particularly in the field of ornithology”.

STAFF PUBLICATIONS

A fungus that is simultaneously an ascomycete and a basidiomycete / Heino Lepp
Fungimap Newsletter, 37, April 2009, pp. 11-12.

Broadening the view of ecotourism : botanic gardens in less developed countries / Lucy Sutherland
In J Hill & T Gale (eds) Ecotourism and environmental sustainability : principles and practice, Ashgate, Farnham, England, pp. 197-219.

ARCHIVE COLLECTION

Recovery of nature-based attractions after the 2003 Canberra fires / Kate Armstrong
From a talk given to the Friends of the ANBG, ANBG Theatrette, 21 May 2009

Challenging traditions to support biodiversity in Belize / Lucy A Sutherland
From a talk given to the Friends of the ANBG, ANBG Theatrette, 28 May 2009

Greening the Silver City : Seeds of Bush Regeneration
F older containing information on the Powerhouse Museum exhibition displayed at the ANBG, 4th June – 26th August 2009
Archive – Exhibitions 2009

CONFERENCES, COURSES and EVENTS

# Indicates a new listing

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

# National Conference of the Australian Hydroponics & Greenhouse Industry
19-22 July 2009
Sydney Showgrounds, Homebush, NSW
http://www.ahga.org.au

Landscape Australia Expo Sydney
22-24 July 2009
Sydney Showground
http://www.landscapeexpo.com.au

# Ecology in a Changing Climate, 10 th International Congress of Ecology
16-21 August 2009
Brisbane
http://www.intecol10.org/

Landscape Australia Expo Melbourne
26-28 August 2009
Melbourne Showgrounds
http://www.landscapeexpo.com.au

Xth Australasian Bryophyte Workshop
30 August – 5 September 2009
Manjimup, WA
Email to Louise.Biggs@dec.wa.gov.au

# 18 th Australian Orchid Council Conference and Show
8-13 September 2009
Wyndham Events Centre, Werribee, Vic
http://www.mosorchid.org/AOCConf2009.php

Australian Landscape Conference 2009: Designing the Liveable Landscape
11-15 September 2009
Camberwell Centre, Camberwell, Vic
http://www.landscapeconference.com

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

Plan(e)t Priority : Regional Reality.
2009 Botanic Gardens of Australia and New Zealand (BGANZ) Congress
8-11 October 2009
Mackay, Qld
http://www.bganz.org.au/congress.html

Cultivating Australia Felix: the Pastoral Legacy
Australian Garden History Society 30 th Annual National Conference
16-18 October 2009
Geelong Conference Centre, Geelong, Vic
http://www.gardenhistorysociety.org.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, South Africa
http://www.ebg2009.org.za

Australasian Conference of Voluntary Guides in Botanic Gardens
9-13 November 2009
Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens
http://www.friendsanbg.org.au/rtbgbrochure.doc

Systematic Botany : From Science to Society. Australian Systematic Botanic Society 2009 Conference and Workshop on national accreditation of providers of biological information.
1–Dec 2009
University of New England, Armidale, NSW
http://www.anbg.gov.au/asbs/conferences/2009-UNE/index.html

29 th International Seed Testing Congress
16-18 June 2010
Cologne, Germany
Call for papers http://www.ista-cologne2010.de

8 th International Flora Malesiana Symposium
23-27 August 2010
Singapore Botanic Gardens
http://www.sbg.org/fm8