Australian National Botanic Gardens   LIBRARY BULLETIN

October 2009

last month: September

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

Gungahlin’s treasures: guide to interpreting the region’s heritage
Conservation Council ACT Region & Canberra Archaeological Society
Canberra : Conservation Council ACT Region, 2009
40 p. booklet on the natural and cultural heritage places in the Gungahlin region.
333.78309947 GUN

Darwin and the Beagle
Alan Moorhead
Harmondsworth, UK : Penguin Books, 1971
508.092 DAR

Diversity, ecology and conservation of truffle fungi in forests of the Pacific Northwest
James M Trappe … [et al.]
Portland, Or. : USDA, [2009]
Also available via the Internet at: http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/pnw_gtr772.pdf
579.5709795 DIV

Biodiversity and ecology of lichens: Liber Amicorum Harrie Sipman
Editors: Andre Aptroot, Mark RD Seaward, Laurens B Sparrius
Berlin : J Cramer, 2009 (Bibliotheca lichenologica; Band 99)
579.7 BIO

Flowers of mountain and plain , 3 rd edn.
Edith S Clements
New York : HW Wilson Co., 1926, reprinted 1955.
Rocky Mountain wildflowers.
582.13099978 CLE

Systematics, evolution, and biogeography of Compositae
Vicki A Funk , Alfonso Susanna, Tod F Stuessy, Randall J Bayer
Vienna : International Association for Plant Taxonomy, 2009
583.99 SYS

Some Latin American genera of Hypnaceae (Musci)
Robert R Ireland and William R Buck
Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2009 (Smithsonian contributions to botany; no. 93)
Also available via the Internet at: http://www.sil.si.edu/SmithsonianContributions/Botany/sc_RecordSingle.cfm?filename=sctb-0093
588.2098 IRE

Plant germplasm conservation in Australia: strategies and guidelines for developing, managing and utilising ex situ collections, Rev. edn
Editors: Catherine A Offord & Patricia F Meagher.
Canberra : Australian Network for Plant Conservation, 2009
Revised edition of: Germplasm conservation guidelines for Australia / editors DH Touchell, M Richardson & KW Dixon. [ Canberra : ANPC], 1997.
631.5230994 PLA

Rustic adornments for homes of taste, and recreations for town folk in the study and imitation of nature
Shirley Hibberd
London : Century in association with the National Trust, 1987
Reprint. Originally published 1856.
Includes a chapter on Wardian cases, used to transport live plant material from Australia via ship to the UK.
712 HIB

Gardens of Eden : among the world’s most beautiful gardens
Holly Kerr Forsyth
Carlton, Vic. : Miegunyah Press, 2009.
712.6 FOR

Towards an Australian garden
Howard Tanner
Woollahra, NSW : Valadon, 1983
712.60994 TAN

The evolution of a gardener, and the making of St. Erth
TR Garnett
Melbourne : Hill of Content, 1993
712.6099452 GAR

The garden within
Joan Law-Smith
Melbourne : National Trust of Australia ( Victoria), 1991
Story of the development of Bolobek, a garden in the Macedon Ranges of Victoria.
712.6099452 LAW

ANNUAL REPORTS

Australian Garden History Society annual report 2008/2009

GHD 2009 annual review

STAFF PUBLICATIONS

Armstrong, EK 2009, ‘Ex situ success: the role of the Australian National Botanic Gardens in native plant conservation’, Australasian Plant Conservation, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 11-12.

Good, R, Taylor, D, Fethers, S, Cosgrove, C, McAuliffe, J, Nicotra, A, Steadman, K & Hoyle, G 2009, ‘Australian National Botanic Gardens: protecting alpine plants in the face of climate change’, Australasian Plant Conservation, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 13-14.

Duncan , A 2009, ‘The Council of Heads of Australia’s Botanic Gardens: working together now and for the future’, Australasian Plant Conservation, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 25-26.

Lepschi, B & Monro, A 2009, ‘Australian Plant Census: August 2009 update’, Australasian Plant Conservation, vol. 18, no. 2, p. 27.

Orchard, AE 2009, ‘A revision of Cassinia (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae) in Australia. 6. Section Cassinia’, Australian Systematic Botany, vol. 22, issue 5, pp. 344-376.

Orchard, AE & Gross, CL 2009, ‘The misapplication of the name Croton urticoides, the reinstatement of the name Adriana tomentosa, and Allan Cunningham’s book herbarium at Chelsea Physic Garden’, Australian Systematic Botany, vol. 22, issue 5, pp. 377-383.

ARCHIVE COLLECTION

Biodiversity conservation and the Australian National Botanic Gardens : strategic opportunities : a report to the ANBG
Sue Mathams
2009
Archive 2009/08

Australian National Botanic Gardens 2010 calendar
Canberra : ANBG, Director of National Parks, 2009
Archive

CONFERENCES, COURSES and EVENTS

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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

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/