New in the ANBG Library

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September/October 2010

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

Rainforest restoration manual for south-eastern Australia
Bill Peel
Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Publishing, 2010
333.75160994 PEE

Life counts: cataloguing life on earth
Michael Gleich et al.
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002
A inventory of the earth’s biodiversity presented in an informative and attractive way.
333.9516 LIF

Australian landforms: understanding a low, flat, arid and old landscape
CR Twidale and EM Campbell
Dural, N.S.W. : Rosenberg Publishing, 2005
551.40994 TWI

Botanic gardens: a living history
Nadine Kathe Monem
London : Black Dog Publishing, c2007
Features commentary from the directors and curators of some of the world’s principal botanic gardens.
580.73 BOT

Ferns of the tropics, rev. edn,
Wee Yeow Chin
Singapore : Times Editions-Marshall Cavendish, c2005
587.30913 CHI

A guide to the katydids of Australia
David Rentz
Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Publishing, 2010
592.7260994 REN

Weed: the ultimate gardener’s guide to organic weed control
Tim Marshall
Pymble, N.S.W. : ABC Books & Harper Collins, 2010
632.50994 MAR

2010/11 Nursery trade register: a comprehensive guide to Australia's nursery & garden industry
Produced by Australian Horticulture Magazine
Epping, N.S.W.: Nursery & Garden Industry Australia, 2010
Ref 635 OFF

Plants, people & places: the plant lover’s companion
Julia Brittain
Newton Abbot, U.K.: David & Charles, 2006
An A to Z history of plant collectors, botanists, horticulturists and gardens .
635.03 BRI

Correas: Australian plants for waterwise gardens
Maria Hitchcock
Dural, N.S.W. : Rosenberg Publishing, 2010
635.93377 HIT

The genus Hoya: species & cultivation
Anders Wennstrom & Katarina Stenman
Umea, Sweden : Botanova, 2008
635.93393 WEN

Starting out with orchids: easy-to-grow and collectable orchids for your glasshouse and shadehouse
David L. Jones
Chatswood, N.S.W. : Reed New Holland, 2010
635.9344 JON

Australia 's Open Garden Scheme: guide to 600 outstanding gardens 2010-2011
Prahran, Vic. : Hardie Grant Magazines, 2010
Ref 712.60994 AUS

A concise companion to Aboriginal history
Malcolm D. Prentis
Dural, N.S.W. : Rosenberg Publishing, 2008
Alphabetically-arranged entries include biographies, historical events, pioneering work by anthropologists, historical controversies, literature and sport.
994.0049915 PRE

REPRINTS AND VERTICAL FILE

Chambers, LE & Keatley, MR 2010, ‘Phenology and climate – early Australian botanical records’, Australian Journal of Botany, vol. 58, pp. 473-484.

Egins, Suzanne 2010, ‘Interviews that actually work: how to avoid useless questions’, Public Sector Informant, September 2010, p. 26-27 [Article from lift-out section of Canberra Times]

Graham, Eric A et al. 2010, ‘Public internet-connected cameras used as a cross-continental ground-based plant phenology monitoring system’, Global Change Biology, vol. 16, pp. 3014-3023.

WEBSITES

Phytotaxa: a rapid international journal for accelerating the publication of botanical taxonomy.
Volume 9, 30 September 2010 features ‘Bryophytes: the closest living relatives of early land plants’. All articles in this volume are available on open access at http://www.mapress.com/phytotaxa/content/2010/pt00009.htm

Myrtle rust arrival In Australia – a major threat to native biodiversity
compiled by Bob Makinson 20 September 2010
Available via the ANPC website at: http://www.anbg.gov.au/anpc/resources/Myrtle_Rust.html

Stevens, PF 2001-, Angiosperm phylogeny website, Version 9, June 2008 [and updates] is available at http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/apweb/
Also includes a link to a printable Angiosperm phylogeny poster athttp://www2.biologie.fu-berlin.de/sysbot/poster/poster1.pdf

JSTOR Plant Science – available via Intranet to staff only to end of 2011.
Includes links to text and illustrations of various floras (especially African floras), to images of herbarium specimens from the US, Europe and Africa, to serial publications such as Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, and to unpublished material such as correspondence and manuscripts.
At http://plants.jstor.org/

ARCHIVE COLLECTION

Villarreal, JC, Cargill, DC, Hagborg, A, Soderstrom, L & Renzaglia, KS 2010, ‘A synthesis of hornwort diversity: patterns, causes and future work’, Phytotaxa, vol. 9, p. 150-166.

Morrison, Norm &Jenny 2010 ‘A tradition of walking and camping at the Goodradigbee’, NPA Bulletin, Sept 2010, p. 10.

‘A champion of equal rights: Elizabeth “Bibi’ Bilney, born August 12, 1943; died September 26, 2010’, obituary in Canberra Times, 8 October 2010, p. 14.

ANBG Volunteer Guides’ meeting minutes of 21 September 2010
Growing Friends record of meeting 4 Sept 2010 and 2 October 2010

CONFERENCES, COURSES and EVENTS

# Indicates a new listing

13 th National Conference on Volunteering
27-29 October 2010
Sebel and Citigate Albert Park, Melbourne, Vic.
http://www.volunteeringaustralia.org/conference

# Upper Murrumbidgee Catchment Coordinating Committee Biennial Forum
28-29 October 2010
University House, ANU, Canberra & field trip to Tharwa, ACT
Phone Jo Perkins 0424 208 003
joperkins@grapevine.com.au

# ANPC Translocation of Threatened Plants Workshop
5 th November 2010
Tweed Bicentennial Environment Park, Centennial Park, Pottsville, NSW
http://www.anbg.gov.au/anpc/courses/Translocation%20NSW%20Nov%202010/TranslocationNov2010.html

The Art of Botanical Illustration, 10 th Biennial Exhibition
6-21 November 2010
Domain House Gallery, South Yarra, Vic.
Phone: 03 9650 6398
www.rbgfriendsmelbourne.org

# BGANZ Plants Forum
Future Focused: Horticulture for a Changing Climate
10 and 11 November 2010
Port of Sale Civic Centre, Sale, Vic
http://www.bganz.org.au

# New Rural Industries Australia 2010 Conference and Exposition
28 – 30 November 2010
Jupiters, Gold Coast
http://www.nria2010.com.au

Systematic botany across the ditch: links between Australia and New Zealand
2010 Australian Systematic Botany Society Conference
29 Nov – 3 Dec 2010
Lincoln University, Canterbury, NZ
http://www.anbg.gov.au/asbs/conferences.html

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