Australian National Botanic Gardens   LIBRARY BULLETIN

September 2009

last month: August

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

Numbers of living species in Australia and the world, 2 nd ed.
Arthur D. Chapman
Canberra : Australian Biological Resources Study, 2009
Also available via the Internet at: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/publications/other/species-numbers/index.html
Ref 333.95160994 CHA

Henderson’s Dictionary of biology, 14 th edn
Eleanor Lawrence, editor
Harlow, Essex : Pearson Education, 2008
Ref 570.3 LAW

Alpine sphagnum bogs and associated fens : a nationally threatened ecological community
Canberra : Dept of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, 2009
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. Policy Statement 3.16
577.6870994 ALP

Lichen biology , 2nd edn
edited by Thomas H. Nash
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008
579.7 LIC

The diplomatic gardener : Richard Schomburgk : explorer and botanic garden director
Pauline Payne
North Adelaide : Jeffcott Press, 2007
Biography of the second director of the Adelaide Botanic Garden.
580.92 SCH

Georgiana : woman of flowers
Libby Hathorn
Sydney : Hachette Livre Australia, 2008
Based on the life of Georgiana Molloy, pioneer botanist in Western Australia.
580.92 MOL

The biology of Australian weeds. Volume 3
edited by F.J. Panetta
Melbourne : R.G. and F.J. Richardson, 2009
Taxa: Anredera cordifolia (Ten.) Steenis, Madeira vine -- Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce, bridal creeper -- Bryophyllum Salisb. species, mother of millions -- Calotropis procera (Aiton) W.T.Aiton, rubber bush -- Conzya bonariensis (L.) Cronquist , hairy fleabane-- Jatropha gossypiifolia L., bellyache bush-- Lantana montevidensis (Spreng.) Briq., creeping lantana -- Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit, leucaena -- Ligustrum lucidum Aiton and Ligustrum sinense Lour., privet -- Lonicera japonica Thunb. , Japanese honeysuckle-- Macfadyena unguis-cati (L.) A.H.Gentry, cat's claw creeper -- Pittosporum undulatum Vent, sweet pittosporum-- Polymeria longifolia Lindl., clumped bindweed -- Prosopis L. species, mesquite -- Solanum elaeagnifolium Cav., silverleaf nightshade -- Ziziphus mauritiana Lam., chinee apple.
581.6520994 BIO

Cronin’s key guide : Australian rainforest plants
Leonard Cronin
Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2009
581.7340994 CRO

Wildflowers of southern Western Australia , 3rd edn
Margaret GCorrick and Bruce A Fuhrer
Dural, NSW : Rosenberg, 2009
582.13099412 COR

Australia ’s remarkable trees
Richard Allen and Kimbal Baker
Carlton, Vic. : Miegunyah Press, 2009
Features 50 of Australia’s oldest, largest and most unusual trees.
582.160994 ALL

Introduction to bryophytes
Alain Vanderpoorten and Bernard Goffinet
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009
Contents: Evolutionary significance of bryophytes -- Ecological significance of bryophytes -- Liverworts -- Mosses -- Hornworts -- Biogeography -- Ecology -- Physiological ecology -- Bryophytes in a changing world -- Conservation biology.
588 INT

Nightwatchmen of bush and plain : Australian owls and owl-like birds
David Fleay
Brisbane : Jacaranda Press, 1968
Includes five chapters on the Powerful Owl.
598.970994 FLE

Community gardening
Ellen Kirby and Elizabeth Peters, editors.
Brooklyn, New York :Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 2008 (Handbook no. 190)
Contents: Seeing green -- Food gardens -- Youth garden programs -- Therapeutic horticulture -- Growing new Americans -- Pocket parks and small community gardens -- Habitat communities -- Making gardens sustainable --- Soil health and safety -- Bringing communities into the garden.
635.097 COM

Integrated pest management in ornamentals : information guide, 2 nd edn
Stephen Goodwin … [et al.]
[ Sydney]: NSW Agriculture, 2002
635.920994 INT

Pests, diseases, disorders and beneficials in ornamentals : field identification guide , 3 rd edn
[ Sydney]: Dept of Primary Industries, 2007
A companion to ‘Integrated pest managament in ornamentals : information guide’.
635.920994 PES

Dictionary for managing trees in urban environments
Danny B. Draper and Peter A. Richards
Collingwood, Vic.: CSIRO Publishing, 2009
635.97703 DRA

Women of flowers : botanical art in Australia from the 1830s to the 1960s
Leonie Norton
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2009
Based on works held in the Pictures Collection of the National Library of Australia.
ANBG 743.9340994 NOR

Floating life : contemporary Aboriginal fibre art
Diane Moon, curator.
South Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery, 2009
Accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Gallery of Modern Art, 1 August - 18 October 2009.
746.07943 FLO

REPRINTS AND VERTICAL FILE

Creative Commons : information from a workshop held at National Museum of Australia, 28 September 2009.
See also: http://www.creativecommons.org.au/

‘Yellow-haired September’ a reflection on the national floral emblem in AJ Campbell’s Golden Wattle
Ian Campbell
Australian Humanities Review, issue 41, Feb 2007, 12 p.
Also available via the Internet at: http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/archive/Issue-February-2007/EcoCampbell.html

Information about wattles : a selection of references prepared by the ANBG Library, September 2009
Also available via the Internet at: http://www.anbg.gov.au/bibliography/acacia-wattle.html

STAFF PUBLICATIONS

McCarthy, PM 2009, ‘New combinations of Australian Collemopsidium Nyl. (Ascomycota, Xanthopyreniaceae)’, Australasian Lichenology, no. 65, p. 3.

McCarthy, PM 2009, ‘A new foliicolous species of Strigula (Strigulaceae) from New South Wales’, Australasian Lichenology, no. 65, pp. 4-5.

ARCHIVE COLLECTION

Biographical file on Robert William Boden , 1935-2009, first director of the Australian National Botanic Gardens
Archive – Biographical Files

Celebrate our Wattle
Exhibition held at the Australian National Botanic Gardens, organized by the Friends of the ANBG, 1 September – 11 October 2009
Includes invitation, press clippings.
Archive – Exhibitions 2009

Australian National Botanic Gardens volunteer handbook
[ Canberra]: ANBG, 2009
Archive 2009/07

CONFERENCES, COURSES and EVENTS

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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

Managing Biodiversity in a Time of Global Change
Society for Conservation Biology - Oceania Section Meeting
30 November - 3 December 2009
University of Tasmania, Hobart
http://www.cdesign.com.au/scboceania2009/

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

Safeguarding Agriculture and the Environment
Global Biosecurity 2010 Conference

28 February – 3 March 2010
Brisbane
http://www.globalbiosecurity2010.com

Addressing Global Change: a New Agenda for Botanic Gardens
4 th BGCI Global Botanic Gardens Congress
13-18 June 2010
Dublin, Ireland
www.4GBGC.com

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

XVIII International Botanical Congress
24-30 July 2011
Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre
http://www.ibc2011.com/