Australian National Botanic Gardens   LIBRARY BULLETIN

May 2009

last month: April

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

Yalanji warranga kaban : people of the rainforest fire management book
Rosemary Hill
Cairns, Qld. : Little Ramsay Press, 2004
305.89915 YAL

Portfolio Budget statements 2009-10 Budget related paper no. 1.6, The Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts Portfolio : budget initiatives and explanations, appropriations specified by outcomes and programs by agency .
Canberra : Commonwealth of Australia, 2009,
Also available via the Internet at: http://www.environment.gov.au/about/publications/budget/2009/pbs/index.html
333.720994 AUS

Wellington National Park, Westralia Conservation Park and Wellington Discovery Forest management plan 2008
[Perth]: Dept of Environment & Conservation, Conservation Commission of W.A., 2009
Also available via the Internet at: http://www.dec.wa.gov.au/landmanagementplanning
333.783099412 WEL

Environment budget overview 2009-2010
Canberra : DEWHA, 2009.
Also available via the Internet at: http://www.environment.gov.au/about/publications/budget/2009/ebo/index.html
333.95160994 AUS

Charles Darwin : a voyage of discovery
Judy Attwood
[ Canberra]: Australian Biological Resources Study, 2009
Additional information and activities available via the Internet at: http://www.asta.edu.au/resources/charles_darwin_-_a_voyage_of_d
576.82092 DAR

Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types.
Supplement VII, F – Frer. Supplement VIII, Fres – G.
L.J. Dorr and Dan H. Nicolson
Ruggell. Germany : A.R.G. Gantner Verlag, 2008 & 2009
REF 580.12 STA

Flora of tropical east Africa. Lamiaceae
A.J. Paton …. [et al.]
Kew : Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, 2009
581.9676 FLO

Taxonomic revision of the Chiliotrichum group sensu stricto (Compositae: Asteraceae)
Jose Mauricio Bonifacino
Washington : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2009 (Smithsonian contributions to botany; no. 92)
Also available via the Internet at:http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/Botany/index.cfm
583.99 BON

Bringing birds back : a glovebox guide, 2 nd edn.,
Nicki Taws
[ Canberra]: Greening Australia Capital Region, 2007
Also available via the Internet at:http://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/our-solutions/biodiversity/birdwatch-bringing-birds-back
P 598.0994 BRI

Nursery industry phone book 2009/2010
Melbourne : Rural Press, 2009
Guide to retail and wholesale nurseries, nursery products, and includes index to plants.
REF 635 NUR

I’ve got spikes : the ultimate guide to flowering and enjoying cymbidium orchids
Graham and Sue Guest
Salisbury South, S.A. : The Authors, 1999
635.9344 GUE

Lantana : current management status and future prospects
Michael D. Day … [et al.]
Canberra : Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, 2003 (ACIAR monograph series)
Also available via the Internet at:http://www.aciar.gov.au/web.nsf/doc/ACIA-5TD6JV
632.5 LAN

Classical biological control of arthropods in Australia
D.F. Waterhouse, D.P.A. Sands
Canberra : CSIRO Entomology & Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, 2001 (ACIAR monograph; no. 77)
Also available via the Internet at: http://www.aciar.gov.au/publication/MN077
632.960994 WAT

Shakespeare’s flowers
Jessica Kerr
Harmondsworth, England : Kestrel Books, 1969
From the collection of Helen Hewson.
822.33 KER

BIOGRAPHICAL FILES

Alex George
Award of Honorary Doctorate to Associate Professor Alexander Segger George by Murdoch University, 3 March 2009 at Perth Exhibition and Convention Centre.
Wildflower Society of Western Australia Newsletter, vol. 47, no. 2, May 2009, pp. 16-17.
Notes from text included in citation read at the presentation.

ARCHIVE COLLECTION

ANBG Site Research

Nitrogen in cell walls of sclerophyllous leaves accounts for little of the variation in photosynthetic nitrogen-use efficiency /Matthew T. Harrison, Everard J. Edwards, Graham D. Farquhar, Adrienne B. Nicotra, John R. Evans.
Plant, Cell and Environment, vol. 32, 2009, pp. 259-270
Includes studies on 16 species of plants growing in the Australian National Botanic Gardens.

CONFERENCES, COURSES and EVENTS

* Indicates a new listing

“Botanic Gardens in the Age of Climate Change”
Eurogard V, Fifth European Botanic Gardens Congress
8-12 June 2009
Helsinki, Finland
http://www.luomus.fi/eurogardv

International Seed Testing Association Annual Meeting
15-18 June 2009
Glattbrugg ( Zurich) Switzerland
http://www.seedtest.org/AM2009

The Global Garden, APGA Conference
23-27 June 2009
St Louis, Missouri
http://www.publicgardens.org

Barks, Birds & Billabongs : the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land 1948 Remembered
6-10 July 2009
National Museum of Australia, Canberra
http://www.nma.gov.au/barks_birds_billabongs

Landscape Australia Expo Sydney
22-24 July 2009
Sydney Showground
http://www.landscapeexpo.com.au

Landscape Australia Expo Melbourne
26-28 August 2009
Melbourne Showgrounds
http://www.landscapeexpo.com.au

Xth Australasian Bryophyte Workshop
30 August – 5 September 2009
Manjimup, WA
Email to Louise.Biggs@dec.wa.gov.au

Australian Landscape Conference 2009: Designing the Liveable Landscape
11-15 September 2009
Camberwell Centre, Camberwell, Vic
http://www.landscapeconference.com

Charles Darwin University Symposium
22-24 September 2009
Darwin Convention Centre, NT
http://www.cdu.edu.au/cdss

Australian Plants in the 21 st Century
Association of Societies for Growing Australian Plants Conference and Seminar
26 Sept – 2 October 2009
Convenor: Paul Kennedy, PO Box 220, Strathmerton VIC 3641
Ph (03) 5874 5239
Email hakeaholic@aapt.net.au

Plan(e)t Priority : Regional Reality.
2009 Botanic Gardens of Australia and New Zealand (BGANZ) Congress
8-11 October 2009
Mackay, Qld
http://www.bganz.org.au/congress.html

Cultivating Australia Felix: the Pastoral Legacy
Australian Garden History Society 30 th Annual National Conference
16-18 October 2009
Geelong Conference Centre, Geelong, Vic
http://www.gardenhistorysociety.org.au

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, South Africa
http://www.ebg2009.org.za

Australasian Conference of Voluntary Guides in Botanic Gardens
9-13 November 2009
Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens
http://www.friendsanbg.org.au/rtbgbrochure.doc

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

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