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Blog Move

Judy Hibberd — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:05:36 +0000

This blog has moved.

Find it now at http://checlibrary.wordpress.com

Adjust your bookmarks and RSS feeds to stay updataed.

And find us on Twitter @chec_library

Ereaders for loan

Judy Hibberd — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 02:26:25 +0000

The Library has two ereaders for loan, a Kindle and a Kobo, both loaded with the 50 titles listed below. The Kobo also has 100 additional classic titles loaded.

61 Hours – Lee Child
Assassin’s Apprentice – Robin Hobb
At Home – Bill Bryson
Bleak House – Charles Dickens
Boy in the World – Niall Williams
Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories – HP Lovecraft
Company of Shadows – Ruth Newman
Classic Westerns – 18 novels – Zane Grey
Damsel – Claire Delacroix
Fairy Tale – Cyn Balog
Fallen – Kate Lauren
Fire – Kristin Cashore
Girl Who Played with Fire – Stieg Larsson
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer
Halo – Alexandra Adornetto
Her Fearful Symmetry – Audrey Niffenegger
Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer
Jasper Jones – Craig Silvey
Kentucky Bride – Hannah Howell
Last Night in Twisted River – John Irving
Let the Great World Spin – Colum McCann
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Little Dorrit – Charles Dickens
Lord Sunday – Garth Nix
Lost Symbol – Dan Brown
Lovesong – Alex Miller
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
No Mercy – John Gilstrap
Paul Is Undead – Alan Goldsher
People’s Train – Tom Kenneally
Perfect Husband – Lisa Gardner
Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
Real Story – Stephen R Donaldson
Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life’s Adversities – Elizabeth Edwards
Seduction – Nicole Jordan
Superfreakonomics – Levitt & Dunbar
Sweet Revenge – Nora Roberts
Temeraire – Naomi Novak
Three Times a Charm – Jean Ston
The Trial – Franz Kafka
Twisted Citadel – Sara Douglass
Vampire High – Douglas Rees
We Are All Made of Glue – Marina Lewycka
What the Great Ate: A Curious History of Food and Fame – Jacob & Jacob
Winter Wood – Steve Augarde
Wolf To The Slaughter – Ruth Rendell
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
Young Hornblower Omnibus – CS Forester

If you want to experience reading in this new way, ask for them at the Loans Desk.

OneSearch, the Library’s new catalogue

Judy Hibberd — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:36:49 +0000

OneSearch, a new catalogue for TAFE and Senior College students and staff was introduced last week. The SCU version was launched in May.

It looks different from the old catalogue, but we hope it is easier to use, and delivers on its promise of “one search” to find exactly what you are looking for.

Please provide feedback on the catalogue as this will help us to improve the service for you.

SMH Good Weekend lists top 100 apps

Judy Hibberd — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 05:40:16 +0000

SMH Good Weekend June 18-19 lists their top 100 apps for Android, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad in the following categories: news, information and books, travel, health and fitness, communication, lifetsyle, photography, utilities and just for fun.

Many are free or very inexpensive. The panellists top five picks are also listed.

Australian Poetry Library is launched

Judy Hibberd — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 06:03:45 +0000

The Australian Poetry Library, an initiative of the University of Sydney and the Copyright Agency Limited was launched on May 25 by the NSW Governor, Marie Bashir. Professor Elizabeth Webby, Professor Emerita of the University of Sydney, oversaw the project made possible by an ARC grant.

Poets are listed by decade (1810s-2000s) and gender, as well as alphabetically. The archive can also be searched by poem, theme or form, so if you want a memorial, peace poem or bush ballad, you will be surprised and delighted with what you can find.

Biomimicry – what is it and why you should care

Judy Hibberd — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 06:30:55 +0000

Biomimicry attempts to answer the question “How can we live on this planet and not destroy it?” It is the science and art of emulating Nature’s best biological ideas to solve human problems. Collaborations to solve problems range across many fields – design, engineering, architecture and business.

Listen to last Thursday’s ABC Radio National interview with Janine Benyus and others and find out what a Namibian beetle can tell us about improving water collection. Or how the shape of a Kingfisher’s beak tells us the best way to design a high speed train.

Benyus’s book, Biomimicry: innovation inspired by nature (600 BENY) is held at this Library.
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These links and more on the ABC site:
Biomimicry Institute
Biomimincry Guild
Ask Nature – the biomimicry design portal.

National Sorry Day May 26 – “Still living on borrowed time”

Judy Hibberd — Thu, 26 May 2011 01:27:01 +0000

National Sorry Day, May 26, commemorates the tabling in Federal Parliament of the 1997 Bringing Them Home Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families. The Report revealed the devastating spiritual, emotional and physical effects of the policies which ordained the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families.

Come along to the Scared Garden today 12-2pm and listen to the stories of elders and community members as they share their stories. A light buffet luncheon will be served.

The Library will also be hosting a Sorry Day Pledge Book throughout the week. The Pledge Books present an opportunity for you to confirm and demonstrate your commitment towards reconciliation, by making a pledge of support towards the fulfillment of the 54 Recommendations of the “Bringing Them Home Report”.

Apps for scince competition

Judy Hibberd — Sun, 15 May 2011 23:47:21 +0000

If you’re an IT student or staff member with an interest in software development, you may like to take up the Elsevier “Apps for Science” challenge.

“Elsevier is offering $35,000 in prizes and challenging software developers to help more than 15 million researchers, medical professionals, librarians and students navigate scientific content, improve scientific search and discovery, visualize sophisticated data in more insightful and attractive ways and stimulate collaboration.

Elsevier, the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information, has opened their vast catalog of scientific content and provided APIs that enable developers to create apps that improve researcher productivity and workflow. Elsevier’s trusted content and meta-data integrates more than 10 million full text articles from over 2,500 journals and 11,000 books as well as over 42 million abstracts, citations and web content covering 18,000 titles from over 5,000 publishers.”

Problems with PDFs

Judy Hibberd — Mon, 09 May 2011 02:49:29 +0000

If you are experiencing problems opening PDFs on lab computers, these tips may help:

Go to Start | Programs | Adobe Reader X and select it. At the 3 radio button option, select the middle one.

When you find the article you want:

Right click on the PDF link and open it in a new browser tab and print.

Right Click on the Link (if using EBSCO click on the Download link in the blue bar at the top)
Select Save Target As
Choose a place to save to e.g. My Documents
Click on the OK button

Express Printing

Judy Hibberd — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 04:10:58 +0000

You asked, we listened. An express printing PC has been installed beside the printer on Level 1 in the Library.

In a hurry and just need to print?

Especially useful for laptop or notebook users who cannot connect to network printers on campus.

10 mins max time limit.