Monday, July 11, 2011
And then (more) stuff happened
An ongoing pictorial tour of the work site that will become the learning common at Bairnsdale campus. As these pictures attest, things are certainly coming along.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Hell in a handbasket..?
Your library strives to include resources that approach current thinking on the global stage. Sustainability and environmental issues are forefront at this time - politically, economically and socially - and continue to impact on classroom education. These books and DVDs encourage debate whilst offering an informed grounding in an ongoing international discussion.
Small Fortunes: Microcredit and the Future of Poverty (DVD)
Small Fortunes explores microcredit as a growing answer to poverty Borrowers from around the world tell their own stories, while microfinance luminaries share perspectives about this important new movement. Find it: Sale campus 332.1091724 SMA
Climate Change: What is the future of our world? (DVD)
Sir David Attenborough undertakes a personal journey to discover how global warming is changing the planet he knows so well. Examining the evidence for this confusing phenomenon, Sir David finds out what’s causing it and whether mankind is to blame. Find it: Sale Campus 551.6 CLI
147 Practical Tips for Teaching Sustainability: Connecting the Environment, the Economy, and Society
Exploring ideas about sustainability, the authors of this volume demonstrate exciting situations in which sustainability is critical. Find it: Sale campus 338.927071 ONE
Sustainability Education: Perspectives and Practice across Higher Education
This book maps out the ground, both for those already some way down the sustainability road and those wanting to take first steps, whether policy makers and senior managers or curriculum developers and deliverers. Find it: Sale campus 338.43378 SUS
An Inconvenient Truth(DVD)
Former US Vice President Al Gore presents a compelling view of the future of our planet. Find it: Bairnsdale and Sale campus 363.738 INC
The Story of Stuff (DVD)
From the time we arise in the morning until after we fall asleep, we participate in a continuous cycle of using stuff that affects ourselves, other people, animals and the planet. Find it: Bairnsdale and Sale campus 339.47 STO
e2 Energy (DVD)
e2 Transport (DVD)
e2 Design (DVD)
e2 is a series which systematically examines the environmental viability of all aspects of modern living. Whether it is where we live and play, what we eat and drink, how we travel, the air we breathe or how we clothe ourselves.
Also on DVD: Climate Wars, The Greenhouse Effect: Climate Change and Global Warming, Clean Energy – Clean Nature: a Climate Friendly Region, Recipes for Disaster.
Small Fortunes: Microcredit and the Future of Poverty (DVD)
Small Fortunes explores microcredit as a growing answer to poverty Borrowers from around the world tell their own stories, while microfinance luminaries share perspectives about this important new movement. Find it: Sale campus 332.1091724 SMA
Climate Change: What is the future of our world? (DVD)
Sir David Attenborough undertakes a personal journey to discover how global warming is changing the planet he knows so well. Examining the evidence for this confusing phenomenon, Sir David finds out what’s causing it and whether mankind is to blame. Find it: Sale Campus 551.6 CLI
147 Practical Tips for Teaching Sustainability: Connecting the Environment, the Economy, and Society
Exploring ideas about sustainability, the authors of this volume demonstrate exciting situations in which sustainability is critical. Find it: Sale campus 338.927071 ONE
Sustainability Education: Perspectives and Practice across Higher Education
This book maps out the ground, both for those already some way down the sustainability road and those wanting to take first steps, whether policy makers and senior managers or curriculum developers and deliverers. Find it: Sale campus 338.43378 SUS
An Inconvenient Truth(DVD)
Former US Vice President Al Gore presents a compelling view of the future of our planet. Find it: Bairnsdale and Sale campus 363.738 INC
The Story of Stuff (DVD)
From the time we arise in the morning until after we fall asleep, we participate in a continuous cycle of using stuff that affects ourselves, other people, animals and the planet. Find it: Bairnsdale and Sale campus 339.47 STO
e2 Energy (DVD)
e2 Transport (DVD)
e2 Design (DVD)
e2 is a series which systematically examines the environmental viability of all aspects of modern living. Whether it is where we live and play, what we eat and drink, how we travel, the air we breathe or how we clothe ourselves.
Also on DVD: Climate Wars, The Greenhouse Effect: Climate Change and Global Warming, Clean Energy – Clean Nature: a Climate Friendly Region, Recipes for Disaster.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
The Festival of Chocolate
Crikey!
How did we get to April? I swear it was only yesterday I was chowing down on roasted turkey. Never mind, it will soon be time to contemplate our girth once more as we head into The Festival of Chocolate. Your library will close it's doors over the Easter break as seen below:
Good Friday: Friday 22 April
Easter Monday: Monday 25 April
Anzac Day: Tuesday 26 April (substitute for Monday 25 April)
You can find the remaining public holiday dates for Victoria here.
Friday, March 18, 2011
More new resources than you can poke a stick at (3)
So. Many. New. Resources.
Check 'em out:
Sustainability in Australian business : fundamental principles and practice
Cindy Sherman : the complete untitled film stills
The Gruen Transfer
Creating an Australian garden
The Victorian naturalist – vol 127 (6) Dec 2010
Incredible : the amazing story of the birth and rebirth of a natural treasure
Grassfires : fuel, weather and fire behaviour
Check 'em out:
Sustainability in Australian business : fundamental principles and practice
Cindy Sherman : the complete untitled film stills
The Gruen Transfer
Creating an Australian garden
The Victorian naturalist – vol 127 (6) Dec 2010
Incredible : the amazing story of the birth and rebirth of a natural treasure
Grassfires : fuel, weather and fire behaviour
The good work of The Blue Shield
The Blue Shield is the cultural equivalent of the Red Cross. It is the protective emblem specified in the 1954 Hague Convention (Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict) for marking cultural sites to give them protection from attack in the event of armed conflict. The Blue Shield network consists of organizations dealing with museums, archives, audiovisual supports, libraries, as well as monuments and sites.
Blue Shield Statement on Libya
"Following the recent events in Libya, the Blue Shield expresses its great concern about the safeguarding of the country's invaluable cultural heritage amid the existing turmoil. The Blue Shield deplores the suffering and loss of life this conflict has imposed on the Libyan population.
Between 1982 and 1986, five sites in this vast country, bearing witness to the rise and fall of sophisticated cultures stretching from prehistory to Islamic civilization, were chosen to become part of the UNESCO World Heritage List. Three of these sites, Cyrene, Leptis Magna and Sabratha, are evidence of the civilization that flourished in Libya during the Punic, Greek and Roman eras. The prehistoric site of Tadrart Acacus and the ancient city of Ghadames are proof of the importance of heritage sites in this territory.
The ongoing armed conflict in Libya gives reason for concern, not only amongst academics but for everybody concerned with the preservation of cultural heritage, about the vulnerability of cultural institutions, sites and monuments. Especially aerial bombardments and artillery pose a grave danger to fragile cultural sites. Any loss of Libyan cultural property would seriously impoverish the collective memory of mankind."
Blue Shield Statement on Christchurch
"Following the recent earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, the Blue Shield expresses its great sorrow for the loss of lives and the destructions the city's cultural heritage sites and institutions suffered.
The city of Christchurch has been rocked by a major earthquake (magnitude 6.3) on last Tuesday, 22 February 2011, half a year after the 7.1 earthquake of 4 September 2010. Besides the serious casualties, the toll on heritage is to be high. It appears that there is very important damage to the historic area of the city and its built heritage.
Among others, the Anglican cathedral, the Catholic basilica, and the Victorian Gothic Provincial Buildings, symbols of the city's cultural heritage, has been severely damaged. Some major cultural institutions and conservation places, such as museums, libraries and archives, are also reported to be significantly affected. What happened in Christchurch once again underlines the vulnerability of cultural institutions, sites and monuments in case of natural disaster.
In addition to the tragic loss of human lives and the country's prevailing state of shock, the loss of these significant aspects of Christchurch's heritage will have profound and lasting consequences on the self-conception and the collective memory of its inhabitants. The intangible values of a people's cultural heritage can support the processes to regenerate normality and help people to move forward. Cultural heritage is a fundamental aspect in the rebuilding of community identity and dignity, as well as in keeping up hope after such a catastrophe.
The Blue Shield trusts that the emergency authorities will take appropriate measures to ensure the preservation of heritage features of the city in the aftermath of the disaster. The Blue Shield Mission is "to work to protect the world's cultural heritage threatened by armed conflict, natural and man-made disasters". While it strongly supports the priority to find the missing, and to help the injured and homeless; it places the expertise and network of its members at the disposal of their New Zealand colleagues to facilitate their work in assessing the damages, and, for subsequent recovery, the restoration and repair measures.
The Blue Shield calls on the international community, responsible authorities and local population to give the fullest support to all efforts underway to protect or rescue the heritage of Christchurch and avoid further damages to museums, libraries, archives, monuments and sites. The member organisations of the Blue Shield are currently liaising with New Zealand colleagues to obtain further information on both the situation and on the possible needs and types of help required so as to mobilise their networks accordingly. A more complete report on damages, needs and actions will be published subsequently, in order to facilitate coordination."
The International Committee of the Blue Shield, founded in 1996, comprises representatives of five Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) working in this field:
the International Council on Archives (http://www.ica.org/),
the International Council of Museums (http://www.icom.museum/),
the International Council on Monuments and Sites (http://www.icomos.org/),
and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (http://www.ifla.org/)
the Co-ordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations (http://www.ccaaa.org/)
National Blue Shield Committees have been founded in a number of countries. The Association of National Committees of the Blue Shield (ANCBS), founded in December 2008, is coordinating and strengthening international efforts to protect cultural property at risk of destruction in armed conflicts or natural disasters. The ANCBS has its headquarters in The Hague.
Blue Shield Statement on Libya
"Following the recent events in Libya, the Blue Shield expresses its great concern about the safeguarding of the country's invaluable cultural heritage amid the existing turmoil. The Blue Shield deplores the suffering and loss of life this conflict has imposed on the Libyan population.
Between 1982 and 1986, five sites in this vast country, bearing witness to the rise and fall of sophisticated cultures stretching from prehistory to Islamic civilization, were chosen to become part of the UNESCO World Heritage List. Three of these sites, Cyrene, Leptis Magna and Sabratha, are evidence of the civilization that flourished in Libya during the Punic, Greek and Roman eras. The prehistoric site of Tadrart Acacus and the ancient city of Ghadames are proof of the importance of heritage sites in this territory.
The ongoing armed conflict in Libya gives reason for concern, not only amongst academics but for everybody concerned with the preservation of cultural heritage, about the vulnerability of cultural institutions, sites and monuments. Especially aerial bombardments and artillery pose a grave danger to fragile cultural sites. Any loss of Libyan cultural property would seriously impoverish the collective memory of mankind."
Blue Shield Statement on Christchurch
"Following the recent earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, the Blue Shield expresses its great sorrow for the loss of lives and the destructions the city's cultural heritage sites and institutions suffered.
The city of Christchurch has been rocked by a major earthquake (magnitude 6.3) on last Tuesday, 22 February 2011, half a year after the 7.1 earthquake of 4 September 2010. Besides the serious casualties, the toll on heritage is to be high. It appears that there is very important damage to the historic area of the city and its built heritage.
Among others, the Anglican cathedral, the Catholic basilica, and the Victorian Gothic Provincial Buildings, symbols of the city's cultural heritage, has been severely damaged. Some major cultural institutions and conservation places, such as museums, libraries and archives, are also reported to be significantly affected. What happened in Christchurch once again underlines the vulnerability of cultural institutions, sites and monuments in case of natural disaster.
In addition to the tragic loss of human lives and the country's prevailing state of shock, the loss of these significant aspects of Christchurch's heritage will have profound and lasting consequences on the self-conception and the collective memory of its inhabitants. The intangible values of a people's cultural heritage can support the processes to regenerate normality and help people to move forward. Cultural heritage is a fundamental aspect in the rebuilding of community identity and dignity, as well as in keeping up hope after such a catastrophe.
The Blue Shield trusts that the emergency authorities will take appropriate measures to ensure the preservation of heritage features of the city in the aftermath of the disaster. The Blue Shield Mission is "to work to protect the world's cultural heritage threatened by armed conflict, natural and man-made disasters". While it strongly supports the priority to find the missing, and to help the injured and homeless; it places the expertise and network of its members at the disposal of their New Zealand colleagues to facilitate their work in assessing the damages, and, for subsequent recovery, the restoration and repair measures.
The Blue Shield calls on the international community, responsible authorities and local population to give the fullest support to all efforts underway to protect or rescue the heritage of Christchurch and avoid further damages to museums, libraries, archives, monuments and sites. The member organisations of the Blue Shield are currently liaising with New Zealand colleagues to obtain further information on both the situation and on the possible needs and types of help required so as to mobilise their networks accordingly. A more complete report on damages, needs and actions will be published subsequently, in order to facilitate coordination."
The International Committee of the Blue Shield, founded in 1996, comprises representatives of five Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) working in this field:
the International Council on Archives (http://www.ica.org/),
the International Council of Museums (http://www.icom.museum/),
the International Council on Monuments and Sites (http://www.icomos.org/),
and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (http://www.ifla.org/)
the Co-ordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations (http://www.ccaaa.org/)
National Blue Shield Committees have been founded in a number of countries. The Association of National Committees of the Blue Shield (ANCBS), founded in December 2008, is coordinating and strengthening international efforts to protect cultural property at risk of destruction in armed conflicts or natural disasters. The ANCBS has its headquarters in The Hague.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
The Googles.
Quoted Phrases
Search term
Keywords
The + Operator
The – Operator
The ~ Operator
The OR Operator
The .. Operator
Wildcards
What the..? Need some explantation to what these mean? Can't find what you're looking for, or spending all of your time looking for something amongst the 767,000,000 results Google returned? Google Guide can offer you some assistance. Google Guide is an online interactive tutorial and reference for experienced users, novices, and everyone in between. Google Guide's developer Nancy Blachman says "I developed Google Guide because I wanted more information about Google's capabilties, features, and services than I found on Google's website." Hard to argue with. Give it whirl.
Search term
Keywords
The + Operator
The – Operator
The ~ Operator
The OR Operator
The .. Operator
Wildcards
What the..? Need some explantation to what these mean? Can't find what you're looking for, or spending all of your time looking for something amongst the 767,000,000 results Google returned? Google Guide can offer you some assistance. Google Guide is an online interactive tutorial and reference for experienced users, novices, and everyone in between. Google Guide's developer Nancy Blachman says "I developed Google Guide because I wanted more information about Google's capabilties, features, and services than I found on Google's website." Hard to argue with. Give it whirl.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Graphic images.
Youtube is populated with videos promoting the idea of library. Many of these videos contain graphic and disturbing images of library staff singing or dancing or singing AND dancing.
The good people of Irish Libraries have gone without singing or dancing or singing AND dancing to bring us this. Warning: might contain metaphor.
The good people of Irish Libraries have gone without singing or dancing or singing AND dancing to bring us this. Warning: might contain metaphor.
Friday, February 25, 2011
And then stuff happened...
An ongoing pictorial tour of the work site that will become the learning common at Bairnsdale campus.
Monday, February 21, 2011
More new resources than you can poke a stick at (2)
Cogito is busy tearing the wrapping off the new resources arriving at library services.
Follow the call number and login to the catalogue to reserve any of the items below. If you can't login or need assistance then contact a librarian - it's what we do.
Here is a taste thus far and in no particular order:
The Adventure of English DVD 420.9 ADV
Therapeutic Guidelines: Palliative Care 2010 Version 3 616.029 THE
Greening services: Practical sustainability 372.357 KIN
Enough Rope: Angels & Demons DVD 616.89 ANG
The Story of Stuff DVD 339.47 STO
This is Family DVD 306.85 THI
A Muslim Education 371.0770994 MUS
Better Health for our Children: A Guide for Parents 618.9200994 FIT
An inconvenient truth DVD 363.738 INC
Understanding the Brain and Behaviour DVD 611.81 CRE
Follow the call number and login to the catalogue to reserve any of the items below. If you can't login or need assistance then contact a librarian - it's what we do.
Here is a taste thus far and in no particular order:
The Adventure of English DVD 420.9 ADV
Therapeutic Guidelines: Palliative Care 2010 Version 3 616.029 THE
Greening services: Practical sustainability 372.357 KIN
Enough Rope: Angels & Demons DVD 616.89 ANG
The Story of Stuff DVD 339.47 STO
This is Family DVD 306.85 THI
A Muslim Education 371.0770994 MUS
Better Health for our Children: A Guide for Parents 618.9200994 FIT
An inconvenient truth DVD 363.738 INC
Understanding the Brain and Behaviour DVD 611.81 CRE
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