Library Connect, February 2023

This month's Library Connect has the usual listing of new books, a video of a tiny, wooden device designed to plant seeds in remote locations, and a reminder to return all completed field notebooks.

The library is staffed Mon - Fri 9.30 - 4.30.  Alex can be contacted on 02 6250 9480 or by email if you need assistance. 

The “click and collect” boxes in the Visitor Centre are still available for returning items, and Alex is very happy to leave items there for collection if that’s easier than visiting the library.

This month's edition includes:

Nature Video

‘This device corkscrews itself into the ground like a seed.  Inspired by nature, this little wooden ‘robot’ has been designed to bury itself.’  Shamini Bundell

There are links to further information about ‘A tiny, coiled wooden device harnesses the natural properties of wood to plant seeds efficiently and sustainably. An aircraft could drop the seed carriers into remote areas to regenerate the land. When the robot is exposed to rainfall, the wood cells swell in different amounts, unwinding the coil and burying the device — and the seed it carries — into the soil.’

Information on Completed Field Notebooks

New Books this Month

• Tunnels in time : the discovery, ecology & extinction of Australia's marsupial megafauna / Lyndall Dawson.
• Lesson from great gardeners : forty gardening icons and what they teach us / Matthew Biggs.
• British wild flowers / by Mrs. Loudon.
• Herbarium : the quest to preserve and classify the world's plants / Barbara M. Thiers.
• 2021-22 annual report : safeguarding Australia's flora, through a national network of germplasm collections / Australian Seed Bank Partnership.
• Strategic plan 2023-30 [electronic resource] : safeguarding Australia's flora, through a national network of germplasm collections / Australian Seed Bank Partnership.
• Recording gardens : preparing for conservation or restoration / Australian Garden History Society.
• The plant hunter's atlas : a world tour of botanical adventures, chance discoveries and strange specimens / Ambra Edwards.
• Cladistics : a guide to biological classification / David M. Williams, Malte C. Ebach.