New Library Procedure

From Wednesday, July 1st all requests for interlibrary loans (i.e. for articles and books not held by the DERM libraries)will be handled centrally in the main library in Mineral House.

From this date all the interlibrary loans should be forwarded to the following email address

ills@derm.qld.gov.au

If you have any queries about the interlibrary loans please contact Antonia Antoniou on 322 47337

Any other requests for help or for literature searches will still be handled by the staff here on level 15 in 160 Ann Street. The email address is still

library@epa.qld.gov.au

Internet security Article

World’s Most Dangerous Search Terms

This paper from Mcafee examines a new phenomenon — the use of search engines as a conduit for profit-driven hackers—by analyzing the risk of searching for more than 2,000 of the most popular words and phrases (“keywords”) used in search engines in 2008. The article does an excellent job breaking out the risk by category and country.

Inhabit

A Weblog which is devoted to the future of designing and tracking the innovations in technology, practices and materials that are pushing architecture and home design towards a smarter and more sustainable future - website

Useful guides to Case law

OZCase

“The OzCase Project is an initiative of the Queensland University of Technology Law Library Manager. Based on the successful Case Project in the United Kingdom, permission was given by Case to utilise their ideas and formats to develop a similar Collection Collaboration within the Universities, Government Departments and Private Legal firms within South East Queensland.
The OzCase Project aims to evaluate and document the feasibility of improving library and information support for law researchers in the South East Queensland region.”

Case Law & Courts Australia

This part of the Walter Harrison Law Library guides to legal resources. It provides a comprehensive listing of Australian Commonwealth and State eResources

Courts & Case Law

This site is maintained by the State Library of Queensland and provides links to International, Canadian, UK and USA case law as well as Australian.

Lead Free Wheels

Background on this program that promotes alternatives to lead wheel weights, which "are used worldwide to balance vehicle tires." It notes that many of the wheel weights fall off and abrade into lead dust, "and increase the risk that lead will contaminate surface, groundwater, and drinking water supplies." Provides information about alternatives (such as zinc), listing of U.S. distributors of lead-free wheel weights, and a wheel-balancing fact sheet. From the Ecology Center.
URL: http://www.leadfreewheels.org/
LII Item: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/28380

SBDS Prototype

SBDS, a new initiative of the National Library of Australia, will be a new discovery service focused on Australia, Australians, and items found in Australian collecting institutions. It will provide a single point of access to resources currently discoverable via the Library's multiple discovery services, and to digitised material freely available online anywhere in the world.

The primary purpose of this first prototype version is to develop the technical framework to support this new discovery service, and as far as possible ensure that the technologies we are using will provide acceptable performance, especially for record updates. The design so far is based primarily on decisions made within the project team to allow rapid development of the prototype. What is there now will form the basis for feedback, ideas for improvement, and input into the design of new features from a wide range of people.

The system is a work in progress, and we have made it available for you to follow our development as we build and improve it. The prototype will be constantly updated as it evolves into a system planned for release into production in the third quarter of this year. -- NLA

Coming to JSTOR

JSTOR will introduce a new "faceted search" feature in early July. The faceted search will offer a number of different options to expand and refine search results. Faceted searching and search results will allow you to easily visualize how the returned articles are distributed among categories, or “facets." For instance, with faceted search you can see how many of your results are in each discipline, how many are book reviews or full-length articles, and how many articles contain images, among other options. You'll be able to modify your search results by choosing specific facets, and all search results pages will now incorporate the facets sidebar to make modifications easier.

Websites about Colour

This is especially for those of you who missed out on the book of colour offered on the Giveaway list no 16. Here are three websites I found listed on Librarian’s Internet Index which might interest you and make up for the fact you missed out on the book.

Color Matters

"It's all about the world of color" and its physiological and psychological effects. "This site explores how color affects appetite, vision, sexuality, energy conservation, and its relationship to architecture and interior design." A passion for color and its unique characteristics led the site's author to search for answers to some puzzling questions: Does pink make strong men weak? Can colors create accidents? What colors are predominant in different cultures? Do marketers use color to influence our decisions? Browse Resources and Interact for additional questions and issues on how color really matters. Searchable.”

Causes of Color

“Explores the "fifteen causes of color derived from a variety of physical and chemical mechanisms." Features information on vibrations and simple excitations, ligand-field-effect colors, molecular orbitals, energy bands, geometrical and physical optics, colorblindness, how the eye and brain process color, early theories of color, and what animals see. Searchable”


Pantone Color Think Tank

Pantone "is known worldwide as the standard language for accurate color communication, from designer to manufacturer to retailer to customer, across a variety of industries." Its "Color Think Tank" plans and chooses color palettes for businesses. Of interest to the general public are pages on color fundamentals such as how we see color, other ways to define color, how color is reproduced, and psychology of color. Also includes links to some color trend material.

JSTOR

Staff now have access to the full-text of many journals via JStor.

You can access this resource from link in the library page devoted to eJournals.

For a full list of all the titles currently availble just click on the Browse button on the JStor home-page.

Keeping Up with the News

NewsCred is free news service where you may sign up to get the latest news from a wide range of sources including The Australian and The Australian Financial Review

Access to New Resources

As a result of the merger with Dept. of Natural Resources and Water, we can now offer you access to two new Informit Databases:

APA-FT (Australian Public Affairs: Full Text)

AIATSIS (Indigenous Studies Bibliography)

Australian Public Affairs - Full Text (APA-FT), is an indexing and full text database that provides Internet access to the scanned images of journal articles from published material on the social sciences and humanities. The database indexes 515 journal titles, with 223+ being comprehensively indexed. The scanned images of journal articles in Australian Public Affairs - Full Text are sourced mostly from these comprehensively indexed journals. Images are provided in PDF format.

Some of the titles which are available fulltext and may be of interest include:

Aboriginal history
Australian Aboriginal studies
Australian archaeology
Australian historical studies
Australasian j. of environmental management
Australian j. of public administration
Australian zoologist
Griffith review
J. of the Royal Historical Society of Qld
Policy
Quadrant
Queensland archaeological research

The Organic Center

The Organic Center is a great website that focuses on the science behind organic agricultural production. Their mission is "to generate credible, peer reviewed scientific information and communicate the verifiable benefits of organic farming and products to society." Under the "State of Science" tab at the top of the page visitors should check out the "Hot Science" section. The articles listed here will give the visitor an idea of all the aspects of organic production there are, and why they are important. For instance, articles such as "Common Insecticide Causes Neurological Deficits in Children", "Soil Quality from Long-term Organic Management Nearly Doubles Flavonoids in Organic Tomatoes" and "Hormone Growth Promoters Feed to Beef Cattle Linked to Adverse Impacts on Male Sexual Development". The "Organic Resources" tab at the top of the homepage has links to "Consumer Resources" and "Science Resources", which are loaded with links to websites regarding all aspects of organic agriculture. The "Leaders in Organics" link, also under the "Organic Resources" tab, has articles by a food scientist and by the chief marketing executive of an organic food company. Visitors interested in receiving the Organic Center's monthly e-newsletter, The Scoop, can sign up by clicking on the "News & Media" tab, and then clicking on the "Newsletter Archive" link. After signing up, visitors should browse the archives of the newsletter, which go back to the beginning of 2007. – Scout report. Volume 15, Number 15, April 17, 2009

Periodic Tables of Videos

This site from the University of Nottingham is a periodic table with added interest as each description of an element is accompanied by an informative and interesting video clip such as the one on P (Lead) where we learn something about the camouflage of submarines in WWII.

Internet security

This week I have gathered up a couple of sites which deal with internet security

Australian Internet Security Initiative
With the rise of threats to our computers via the internet, security breaches and the continuing problems of Spam and phishing, the Australian Government has set up this initiative to help combat the problems facing all computer owners and users.

For a complete listing of Australian government site dealing with internet security
http://www.australia.gov.au/topics/it-and-communications/internet

Protecting your online Identity

With the advent of social networking there is an increasing interest in, and concerns about the identity we present on the Web. The article, “Will the real Emily please stand up” provides food for thought on this topic. It also mentions “ClaimID”, tool to help you take control of your public web face.This site contains a useful section outlining "Best practices in managing your online identity"

Simply Delicious

Book now for the next Library Session

When: Friday 29th May from 10:30 to 11:30

Where: The Group Room on Level 14, 16o Ann Street

What: In this session we look at the features of Delicious with a particular focus on the Library@DERM internet subject links.

The session also covers how to set up an account of your own, to convert your current Favourites into and organised and tagged list which you can access from any computer.

There are only 8 place available so Contact the library to book a place for this session

Using Web 2.0 for Research

If you are looking for hard to find information particularly on recent topics then this excellent presentation from Lissa Lord at the University of Kansas provides ideas for non-print sources to retrieve relevant and up-to-date information

Environmental History Resources

This site is maintained by Dr Jan Oosthoek at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

It was set up to provide resources and information for students, scholars and anyone interested in all aspects of environmental history.

Introducing Environment Complete

When: Friday May 15 from 10:30 to 11:30

Where: Group Room, Level 14, 160 Ann Street

Places are limited.
Contact the library to book a place for this session

• Environment Complete indexes the journal literature in environmentally relevant areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.

• Environment Complete contains more than 1,957,000 records from more than journal titles going back to the 1940s as well as more than 120 monographs.

• Environment Complete also contains full text for more than 680 journals, including many of the most used journals in the discipline, such as Environment (back to 1975), Ecologist, Conservation Biology, etc. Additionally, Environment Complete provides full text for 120 monographs, such as Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (3 volumes), Advances in Water Treatment & Environmental Management, etc.

• This session is designed introduce the user to all the features of this database and to demonstrate how to set up a personal profile, select, save, and export or printout references and articles.

The Aldo Leopold Archives

"Aldo Leopold is considered by many to have been the most influential conservation thinker of the 20th Century. Leopold's legacy spans the disciplines of forestry, wildlife management, conservation biology, sustainable agriculture, restoration ecology, private land management, environmental history, literature, education, esthetics, and ethics. He is most widely known as the author of A Sand County Almanac, one of the most beloved and respected books about the environment ever published. The Leopold Collection houses the raw materials that document not only Leopold's rise to prominence but the history of conservation and the emergence of the field of ecology from the early 1900s until his death in 1948.

Leopold was a meticulous and disciplined generator and retainer of important correspondence, memorandum, reports, and related materials. He published more than 500 articles, essays and reports and his papers contain at least 500 more unpublished essays, reports, and memorandum of significance. He also kept detailed diaries and journals of his Forest Service activity, his travels, hunting and field experience, and observations and activities at his Sand County farm. He maintained active correspondence (both outgoing and incoming) with more than a hundred professional and conservation organizations, with his many graduate students, and with hundreds of leaders in a range of scholarly disciplines, professional fields, government agencies, and conservation organizations. His papers reflect the most advanced thinking and most innovative practice across virtually the entire spectrum of natural resource conservation, policy and management in the first half of the twentieth century.

The collection has been augmented by correspondence and related materials carefully retained over the years by his mother, his wife, and other family members and professional associates; these span his entire life, but are most rich and voluminous for his early years. It also includes student notebooks and course materials from his studies in Burlington, Lawrenceville and Yale, and copies of his inspection reports on many national forests in the Southwest as well as hundreds of family photographs and photographs taken by Leopold to illustrate aspects of wildlife ecology and land management". - Information taken from the site maintained by the University of Wisconsin as part of the University's Digital Collections.

eResearch Archive

eRa is the gateway to to the Queensland Primary Industries and Fisheries
archive of scientific and research publications

For the first time, the research output of QPIF is available to the wider online community. This output includes journal articles, book chapters, conference papers and theses. Where permission has been granted (or subscriptions permit), users viewing the eResearch Archive will be able to link directly to full text content online or download a copy free of charge.

eResearch Archive ensures the widest possible dissemination of QPIF staff research and contributes to the growing body of research literature that is now freely available online.

Publications have been submitted from a broad cross section of QPIF staff, covering areas such as Animal Science, Emerging Technologies, Fisheries, Plant Science, Horticulture and Forestry Science, Biosecurity and Industry Development.

Users can conduct a basic or advanced search or browse by subject

An Introduction to Google’s Search Engine

This article on About.com covers all you need to know to make the most of your Google search, so if you can’t get along to the Library session have a look at this.

Nature precedings

This is a free online resource where researchers in the life sciences can openly share preliminary findings and solicit community feedback.

Researchers can post preprint manuscripts, white papers, technical reports, posters and presentations.

Green Library

This is an article about the "Green" library, Cardiff's new Central Library.

The library which opened in March features "a Sedum grass roof which insulates the building in winter and prevents heat gain in the summer and also assists in the removal of CO2 and other pollutants from the air in the city centre and it is patrolled by two fearsome-looking hawks who stop birds from eating the grass seeds."

First Fleet Artwork Collection

On 13 May 1787 eleven ships, now commonly referred to as The First Fleet, set sail from Portsmouth to establish a colony in New South Wales, Australia. They reached their destination on 18 January 1788, 18 years after Captain James Cook had first landed on the east coast of Australia at Botany Bay. One of the unplanned but long-lasting outcomes of this event was the large number of outstanding drawings of aboriginal people, the environment and wildlife found on arrival as well as of the early foundation of the colony.

The drawings have been arranged under 4 themes – Natural history, Ethnography, Topography and History.

Google Tips and Tricks

Presented by DERM Library

Where: Group Room Level 14

When? 10.30 am - Friday May 1st

What: We will be looking at some tricks to make the most of your Google Searches.
Bookings are essential

Contact the library to book a place for this session
by 4.30 pm Thursday April 30

AuseSearch

This site provides a single access point to the open access repositories in Australia.

It searches all full-text research articles and (if available) theses from repositories 48 sites from the major Australian universities

Free access to Sage publications

Sage publications are offering free access to over 500 journals from 1999 to current issues until the end of April.

To take advantage of this offer all you need to do is register by visiting the Sage website.

SuperSearch Training Session

There will be a session on using the library search tool "SuperSearch" in the Group Room on Level 14 of 160 Ann Street on Friday 17th April at 10:30 am

The session will last approximately one hour and will demonstrate the various features of this tool, the basics of searching and how to retrieve and export records into Refworks.

Please contact the library to book a place.

If you cannot attend the Friday session just contact the library staff to arrange an individual session at the time of your choice.

Library Training

This coming Friday morning (Friday 3rd April) the topic will be Introducing Scopus.

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources.

It's designed to find the information scientists need. It is quick and easy to use and comprehensive in scope. Scopus provides superior support of the literature research process.

It is updated daily and covers over 16,000 peer-reviewed journals, including 1200 open-access journals, conference proceedings, trade publication and book series.

The session will showcase the features available and demonstrate how to set up a personal profile and how to export references into RefWorks folders.

Bookings are essential. Only 8 places available.
Contact the library to book a place for this session

Freeze Frame

This is the online collection of Polar Images from the Scott Polar Research Institute in the University of Cambridge, covering the years 1845-1982. It brings together images from both Arctic and Antarctic expeditions. There are over 20,000 images in the collection.

The Resources section contains Environmental change, Expedition summaries, Biographies, and History of polar photography.

Customary Medicinal Knowledgebase

CMKb is an online relational database for collating, disseminating, visualising and analysing initially public domain data on customary medicinal plants. The database stores information related to taxonomy, phytochemistry, biogeography, biological activities of customary medicinal plant species as well as images of individual species. Known bioactive molecules are characterized within the chemoinformatics module of CMKb, with functions available for molecular editing and visualization.

Introducing Web 2.0 : Blogs

What is a blog? The word Blog is a contraction of the term web log and is a personal or corporate website in the form of an online journal, with new entries appearing in sequence as they are written. Some blogs such as this library blog are “read only” while others provide an open forum for discussion.

As with Podcasts viewers are often able to sign up for continuous email alerts or for RSS feeds.

It is one of the many ways to keep up to date with developments in your field and to communicate with others.

Here is a selection of environmental Blogs (in alphabetical order):

Climate Debate Daily, named by Times of London as one of the 5 top eco-sites

Climate Ethics Blog is a commentary site on climate change science and policymaking by those working on climate change ethics. The site is intended for policymakers, interested public, and journalists.

ResearchBlogging which accesses blogs maintained by writers producing pee-reviewed material. This is the site to catch up on what is going on in academic research world wide.

Reuters Environment Blog

ScienceBlogs

Short Sharp Science: Environment posts. This blog is maintained by New Scientist.

The Environmental Blog maintained by John Tarantino who founded the non-profit organization to lobby congress to support hybrid vehicles.

The Green Blog with Graham Readfern which is maintained by the Courier Mail.

The Guardian Environmental Blog

While there are indexes to Blogs such as, Technorati,
and Blogcatalog you can also locate Blogs of interest simply by including the word blog in your Google search query.

If you want to set up your own Blog these will help you to start

How to set up a Blog for Beginners

How to set up a science Blog

New Library Internet sites: advice to all users

If you are using the new site for the first time please sort the list of sites alphabetically before you do anything else.

To do this just go to the blue arrow beside the words Sorted by Most Recent and select Alphabetical

Once you have done this the records will always be in this order each time you log in to use it. You only have to do this sort once.

World Bank: Environment

This website provides access to an overview of the Bank's work on environment and links to relevant activities across the Bank, both in the operational regions and in different sectors with which it works. Information about the Environment Strategy, Operational and Safeguard Policies, their environmental work in the regions, projects, analytical studies, capacity-building efforts, partnerships, and publications can all be found through the navigation buttons on the left of the screen.

Free Books for You

Library staff are currently preparing for the relocation to the new premises at the end of 2009. Prior to the move we need to remove some material from the collection and over the next few months we will be offering the deselected materials to interested staff members for inclusion in their personal collections.

From Tuesday 24th March selected items will be displayed on the table beside the entry to the library.

Drop in,browse and select any items you would like.

Introducing Web 2.0 : Podcasts.

Over the coming weeks I plan to introduce some of the tools available out there on the Web which can help keep you up to date and in touch with developments in Environmental affairs. This week we will look at Podcasts.

These are a great way for getting information on a wide range of topics and with the new generation of hand held devices it is now possible to download some items to view at your leisure. However you don’t have to have an Ipod or MP3 player to view them you can use them an ordinary PC with headphones or speaker.

They can range from short presentations of 1 -10 minutes to long discussions and presentations.

These are just a few of the many sites available:-

CSIRO pod

Environment and Green Podcasts maintained by the Environment Society of Australia.

The Environment Show features important current environment issues, interviews with leading campaigners and experts, best practice and solutions to our big environmental challenges. It was established and is maintained by Phil Stubbs, environment reporter for radio2ser Sydney. The site also provides links to a wealth of other Web 2.0 resources.

Podcast Blaster Directory: Environment

If you wish to extend your knowledge in other fields many universities and colleges now offer their courses and talk online.

MIT podcasts

Open Culture: University and College Podcasts

Podcasts from the University of Oxford

University of Melbourne Up Close Podcasts

University of Sydney Podcasts

If you are interested in creating your own podcasts then this will help start you up:

The Beginner’s guide to podcasts and podcasting. This is a comprehensive and easy to follow guide which includes excellent tips.

You may also be interested in Creating a Podcast with Blogger

Weasel Words

If you enjoyed the book check out the website and keep up to date with the continuing hunt to identify and exterminate “weasel words”

Free Access to Royal Society Publications during March 2009

The Royal Society has just changed it's publishing over to Highwire and to celebrate they are providing free access to all the Royal Society Publications throughout March.

Using Google to locate photographs

There are a couple of ways you can search for photographs with Google.

You can go to Google Images and use the Advanced search option and select photo content from the Content types option.

Or simply type your query in the regular query box, then once the results are on the screen, select Photo content from the drop down box which is preset to Any content.

Library Information Sessions: March through May

The library staff will be presenting the following talks/demonstrations in the coming weeks.

As there is only room for up to 8 persons for each session bookings are essential and places are allotted on first-come-first-serve basis.

Contact the library to book a place
Please indicate in the body of the message which session you wish to attend.

All sessions will take place in the Group Meeting Room, Level 14, 160 Ann Street and will be held from 10:30 to 11:30 am.

Friday 20th March : Introducing RefWorks

This is a brief demonstration of the bibliographic management tool, RefWorks which is available to all staff.

This can be used to keep track of all the material you have researched, to sort the information in topic areas, and to produce bibliographies for articles and papers

Friday 3rd April : Introducing Scopus

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. It's designed to find the information scientists need. Quick, easy and comprehensive, Scopus provides superior support of the literature research process. It is updated daily.

It covers over 16,000 peer-reviewed journals, 1200 open-access journals, conference proceedings, trade publication and book series.

The session will highlight the features available, demonstrate how to set up a personal profile and export references into your RefWorks folders.

Friday April 17th : Introducing SuperSearch

Supersearch is a Federated search engine. This tool permits a simultaneous search of the library catalogue and the library databases using a single search query.

The session will demonstrate the various features of this search engine, the basics of searching and retrieving material and exporting records into Refworks.

Friday May 1st : Google Tips and Tricks

This session has proved popular in the past.

It outlines various methods of ensuring quality results from searches on Google, looks at the various features of Google including enabling users to export references directly into Refworks

Friday May 15th : Looking at Environment Complete

Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. and contains more than 1,957,000 records.

It also contains full text for more than 680 journals and 120 monographs.

This session will outline the features available to searchers, show how to set up a personal profile, and how to export references from the database into Refworks.

Friday May 29th : Managing your Favourite Websites

This session highlights the tool Delicious, which facilitates keeping track of all those websites you use in your regular tasks.

Delicious provides a means to store and arrange all the sites so that they can be accessed from any terminal at any time.

The session outlines the steps in setting up an account and how to make maximum usage of all the features available.

Coffee and Cookies in the Library

You are invited to join the library staff for morning tea in the Library on Friday March 6th at 10.30.

We will be introducing the updated version of the Library's Links to Internet Resources.

Please bring your cup or mug we will supply the coffee or tea and the food. Please let us know if you are coming by 4.30 on Thursday 5th.

Contact the library to rsvp

We look forward to seeing you.

RSS in Plain English

Are you still wondering what RSS is and how is can help you?

This short and simple video explains the whole thing and will have you started on keeping up to date quickly and easily.

.Marine Protected Areas of the United States

This site includes information and news about the US Marine Protected Areas and some useful resources such as their Virtual Library, Lessons Learned and Case Studies

OOPS!

It has just been pointed out that I made an error in the date for this Friday's Morning Tea+. The Google Tips and Tricks session is at 10.30 am on Friday the 20th and so the emails should be in by 4.30 pm. on Thursday 19th

Contact the library to reserve a place

By Aeroplane to Pygmyland

by Paul Michael Taylor, Asian Cultural History Program, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.

Anyone interested in New Guinea and its cultural history might like to look at this presentation from the Smithsonian Libraries which includes not only the diaries by the American participants but over 700 photos, interpretative essays and films about the 1926 Dutch and American Expedition to New Guinea.

Google Tips and Tricks

At the Morning Tea+ scheduled for Friday 19th we will be looking at some tricks to make the most of your Google Searches.

Drop up to the Library on Level 15 at 10.30 am for coffee and biscuits. If there are sufficient people interested in the presentation we will adjourn to the conference room on Level 14.

Bookings are essential

Contact the library to reserve a place

Links to Internet Resources

All the library links to internet resources have now been entered on Delicious and shortly we plan to switch our links to this site.

Here is a brief guide to the features on the site

Viewing options
Title – this just displays the title of the website
Title and Tags – this shows what tags have been assigned to each site

Users can sort the bookmarks
Most recent
Alphabetically

TIP - - Library staff recommend sorting and viewing them in alphabetical order since this provides the viewer with an alphabetical listing of the websites


Users can show up to 100
Use the little blue arrow at the foot of the page to select the number you want from 10 to 100

Tip - - Library staff recommend selecting 100 as this makes it easier to work through the alphabetical list of the websites


Searching for sites using the TAGS
Type the first letter of your subject into the search box and then select term from the dropdown list

Top 10 (the most frequently used on the site) are at the top


Dig down or hone in using the Tag bundles
Tag bundles are the broad subject areas/access points
These are used to organise the indexing into the equivalent of chapter headings in a book.
Within each tag bundle are associated tags (sub-headings) which you access in two ways:
by Clicking on the Tag Bundle heading
by clicking on the arrow head beside the tag bundle
Search within the these headings using the Related tags at the right of the screen to locate more specific topics


Unbundled tags
These are headings not assigned or associated with any particular bundle.
They provide access to individual subject areas regardless of which Tag bundle they may be associated with


Please take the time to look at this site and

Contact the library to comment on this site

Library Lovers' Day

On Friday 13th the Library will be celebrating Library Lovers' Day with a very special morning tea in the library at 10:30.

Please join us for great food and take part in our competition.

Bring along your cups, mugs or glasses and share with us your thoughts on why you love the Library.

RSVP by 4:30 pm on Thursday 12th

.Landmark study on green collar jobs

This study (published in 2007 and released in February 2008), "found that green collar jobs are highly suitable for people who would typically struggle to find work." Includes the full report, findings from which were based on interviews with more than 20 green businesses in Berkeley, California, and an executive summary and news story. From California State University; report author is an urban studies professor at San Francisco State University

Green Collar Blog

The primary aim of the blog is to help persons in the US to locate jobs that focus on environmental and social responsibility the Reports & Research section may provide resources of interest to others and the News items inform of current trends in “green jobs”.

Library Updates

This is just a friendly reminder to all those who wish to register as recipients of up-dates to this list that you will need to register Library@EPA.qld.gov.au as a safe site in order to prevent your updates being identified as Spam or as being Spoofed and this rejected. If you are unsure about how to do this just call us up and we will “walk” you through the process.

A Taste of "Delicious"

The topic for discussion at the next scheduled Morning Tea+ on Friday February 6, in the Level 14 Conference Room is Delicious. This is a tool which allows the user to store all their favourite websites and allows access from any terminal at any time.

During this talk we will have a look at the Library collection of Websites currently under construction, discover the features available in the resource, and present suggestions on how you can get started in creating your own collection of sites.

Spaces are limited so be sure to RSVP by the 4:30 on Thursday 5th.

Contact the library to request a place

Library's Bookmarks

The Library is currently adding all the Library Internet Sites to Delicious.

We are interested in your feedback on this project so take a look at LibraryEPA's Bookmarks and email us with your comments.

If you want to find out more about Delicious we can present a short explanatory session at one of our regular Morning Tea+ held every second Friday morning.

The next is scheduled for 6th February and if there is a particular topic you would like covered at this session please let us know.
Contact the library to request attend this session

How does Google collect and rank results?

There are several outlines explaining how Google ranks results but this one is by far the simplest and clearest.

So if you have ever wondered just how Google works this brief article by Matt Cutts explains, in plain language, just how Google does it

Library News

To acknowledge World Wetlands Day on February 2nd,
the Library has put together a small display of library holdings.

We are marking the day with Morning Tea in the Library at 10.30. Please join us in the Library at 10.30 am for Coffee or Tea and nibbles.

Free Books

Don’t forget to check our Recycling Depot Blog for all the books we have for you. Just click on the link in any of the entries to submit a request for any of the items you would like to read. We will send them out to you.

While there are a few new books coming in we would welcome any contributions of books you have purchased, read and enjoyed. So please think of the Library@EPA Recycling Depot when you are clearing your bookshelves to make room for new titles and pass the old ones on for others to enjoy.

Morning Tea +

You are invited to join us for morning tea every second Friday.

Where: The Group Conference Room, Level 14, 160 Ann Street.

When: Between 10:30 and 11:30 am.

What: Besides providing morning tea we will be offering information sessions. The first on January 23rd will be on RSS feeds. So if you are wondering what these are then come along and find out.

Contact the library to request a place

Library Updates

We wish you all a very Happy New Year and look to seeing or hearing from you all in the library during 2009.

As we are always looking for ways to improve our services and access to information we are continuing to look for and to try out innovative tools.

We are about to update the library Internet links and plan to put them all on Delicious. If you are not familiar with this tool have a look at it Delicious. If you want to know how to use it we are planning on including a workshop on it in one of our future library sessions.

Journal Tables of Contents Service

Looking for a one-stop shop to subscribe for table of contents?

Here is a new site to help you manage your journal reading It's called ticTOC, and has been created by the ticTOCs Consortium consisting of: the University of Liverpool Library (lead), Heriot-Watt University, CrossRef, ProQuest, Emerald, RefWorks, MIMAS, Cranfield University, Institute of Physics, SAGE Publishers, Inderscience Publishers, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), Open J-Gate, and Intute.

Linne online

On this website Uppsala University presents research relating to the work of one of the most famous professors throughout its history, namely Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) (1707 - 1778). There is a particularly interesting section on the site dealing with “Linnaeus and Ecology".

Pictures in Microsoft Excel

Would you like to make more meaningful charts in Excel? If so then visit this site to learn how.

Directions on how to put pictures into a chart created on EXCEL
http://www.clarion.edu/74761.pdf

This tip is for those of you who regularly use Microsoft Excel and would like to improve the present your charts. It demonstrates a way to present your data in a more visual format by simply using the Fill effects in conjunction with Insert Picture option.

Enhancements to RefWorks

During the week of January 12th, 2009, RefWorks is scheduled to release another feature upgrade to the program.

Detailed information about the new features and enhancements for the January release is available at: http://info.csa.com/refworks/feature-release/january2009.shtml .

General New Features & Enhancements
Ability to Save Search Strategies in Advanced Search
File Attachment Searching
Improved Sorting of Japanese Characters

100 Ways to Reduce Your Impact

This is the first prize-winner in the Green Section of Instructables. If you are not familiar with this site then check it out as it is a great source of information on a wide range of topics from crafts to science

Tech Tips for the Basic Computer User

This is just one of the series of article by David Pogue which have appeared in the New York Times over the past few years. Those of you who are familiar with his Missing Manual series will enjoy learning from this author who takes the mystery out of IT for the general user.