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September 2008

(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

BOOKS & PAMPHLETS

Note for file: a report on recordkeeping in the Australian Public Service: a summary guide
Canberra : Australian Public Service Commission, 2007
P 322.30994 NOT

Welcome to Aboriginal land, Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park: visitor guide and maps
[S.l.]: Director of National Parks, 2006
P 333.7830994291 WEL

Pills, plants and people: a guide to complementary medicines trade and conservation
[ Canberra : Dept of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts], 2008
P 343.940853 PIL

Climate change : what you can do about it, at work, at home, at school
Paul Holper and Simon Torok
Sydney : Pan Macmillan, 2008
363.73874 HOL

Growing trees and greenhouse sinks: an overview for landholders, 3 rd edn .
Canberra : Australian Greenhouse Office, 2006
Also available via the Internet at: http://www.climatechange.gov.au/land/publications/sinks-landholders.html
P 363.738740994 GRO

Proceedings of the National Taxonomy Forum, 4-5 October 2007, Australian Museum, Sydney NSW
Kathryn Hall (comp.)

[ Sydney]: Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies, 2008
Also available in an electronic format via the Internet at: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/workshop-forum/pubs/ntf-proceedings.pdf
578.012 PRO

A first assessment of the Ticholichen Biodiversity Inventory in Costa Rica: the genus Graphis, with notes on the genus Hemithecium (Ascomycota: Ostropales: Graphidaceae)
Robert Lucking … [et al.]
Chicago : Field Museum of Natural History, 2008
579.7097286 FIR

Pamir Botanical Garden
Niyatbek Miralibekov
Dushanbe, Academy of Sciences Tajikistan 2005
580.73586 MIR

Flora of tropical east Africa. Acanthaceae part 1 and Scrophulariaceae
Kew : Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, 2008
581.9676 FLO

Utilising Aboriginal knowledge in western NSW plant conservation
Peter Dykes … [et al.]
Dubbo, N.S.W. : Dept of Natural Resources, 2006
Language groups included: Barranbinya, Budjiri, Euahlayi / Gamilaroi, Moorawarri, Ngiyampaa / Ngemba, Wangkumara.
Contents: Part 1, Technical report - Part 2, Language groups - Part 3, Vegetation community description and plant lists -- Set of 11 large plant cultural value tables and vegetation community tables -- Set of 4 language group maps.
581.63099449 UTI

Integration of cultural education with native vegetation management
Peter Dykes .. [et al.]
Orange, N.S.W. : Dept of Natural Resources, 2006
Language groups included: Weilwan, Wiradjuri.
Contents: Part 1, Technical report - Part 2, Language groups - Part 3, Vegetation community description and plant lists -- Set of 4 plant cultural value tables and vegetation community tables -- Set of 2 language group maps -- Educational multimedia CD.

581.63099445 INT

Revision du genre afrotropical Pauridiantha (Rubiaceae)
Salvator Ntore
Meise : National Botanic Garden of Belgium, 2008
583.930967 NTO

Phylogeny and evolution of the Mollusca
Winston F. Ponder, David R. Lindberg
Berkeley : University of California Pres, 2008
ABRS 594.138 PHY

Status of the Red Knot (Calidris canutus rufa) in the Western Hemisphere
Lawrence J. Niles … [et al.]
[ Calif.]: Cooper Ornithological Society, 2008
ABRS 598.33091812 STA

ISTA handbook on moisture determination
Harry Nijenstein (ed.)

Basserdorf , Switzerland : International Seed Testing Association, 2007
Provides for uniform seed moisture content testing. Also includes general information on the role of water in seeds.
631.521 IST

Garden plants of Japan
Ran Levy-Yamamori, Gerard Taaffe
Portland, Or. : Timber Press, 2004
635.90952 LEV

Australia’s eremophilas : changing gardens for a changing climate
Norma Boschen, Maree Goods, Russell Wait
Melbourne : Bloomings Books, 2008
Contains a brief description, extensive cultivation and growing hints, additional notes and photographs for most of the 216 described species of Eremophila. Also includes many hybrids and cultivars.
635.93395 BOS

Easy ways with hypertufa
Avon Bank, Pershore, UK : Alpine Garden Society, 2008 (Info leaflet; v. 8)
6 p. pamphlet on using hypertufa, a substitute for tufa, used as a substrate for growing alpines.
P 635.9528 ALP

Indigenous visual arts and craft resource directory 2006
Canberra : Dept of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, 2006
706.089915 IND

Gunyah, goondie + wurley : the Aboriginal architecture of Australia
Paul Memmott
St Lucia : University of Queensland Press, 2007
Explores the range and complexity of Aboriginal-designed structures, spaces and territorial behaviour, from minimalist shelters to permanent houses and villages.
720.89915 MEM

Twined together = Kunmadji njalehnjaleken, [Rev. edn.]
Louise Hamby (ed.)
Oenpelli, N.T. : Injalak Arts and Crafts, c2005, 2008
Contemporary fibre practice and history from western Arnhem Land.
746 TWI

Cook’s Endeavour journal: the inside story
John Clark
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2008
910.941 COO

REFERENCE COLLECTION

The New McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian art, [4 th edn]
Alan McCulloch, Susan McCulloch, Emily McCulloch Childs
Fitzroy, Vic. : Aus Art Editions in association with The Miegunyah Press, 2006
Ref 709.9403 MCC

Australia ’s Open Gardens : guide to 600+ outstanding gardens 2008-2009
Prahran, Vic : Hardie Grant Magazines for Australia’s Open Gardens Scheme, 2008
REF 712.60994 AUS

MAPS

Lands and waters managed by the Department of Environment and Conservation, Greater Southwest
[ Perth]: Dept of Environment & Conservation, 2007
1:1,000,000 scale map of the national parks and reserves in the southwest of Western Australia.
Map 333.783099412 LAN

VERTICAL FILE

Toward a global biodiversity observing system / R.J. Scholes et al.
Science, vol. 321, 22 August 2008, pp. 1044-1045

How useful are botanic gardens for conservation ? / Dave Aplin
The Plantsman, n.s., vol. 7(3) Sept 2008, pp. 190-193

ARCHIVE COLLECTION

Volunteer guide training manual 2008
Canberra : ANBG, 2008
Archive 2008/03

CONFERENCES, COURSES and EVENTS

* Indicates a new listing

* Exhibition: Wildflower Society of Western Australia (Inc.) and the Wildflowers of WA
20 Sept – 16 November 2008
State Library of Western Australia, Perth Cultural Centre

* Signage & Interpretation – a Practical Workshop
BGANZ NSW
24-25 November 2008
Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney
Enquiries to leanne.hilton@rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au

Systematics and Evolution in a Changing Environment
2008 National Australian Systematic Botany Society Conference
28 September – 3 October 2008
University of Adelaide
Queries to pbc@saugov.sa.gov.au

Eremophilas, 7 th FJC Rogers Seminar, Australian Plants Society
4-5 October 2008
Horsham, Victoria
Phone (03) 5383 2229

* 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

 

 


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