Library Connect Dec 2024 / Jan 2025

This edition of Library Connect has the usual listing of new books and a few articles for your interest. The selection of ‘free to good home’ books has been refreshed so please drop in for a browse.

The library is staffed Mon - Fri 9.30 - 4.30 and Alex can also be contacted by email or phone (02 6250 9480) 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.
 

For your interest

The Conversation

Hidden women of history: the Australian children’s author who captured the bush – before May Gibbs’ Australiana empire
Lauren A. Weber & Sara Fernandes
Published: January 7, 2025 6.03am AEDT
https://theconversation.com/hidden-women-of-history-the-australian-childrens-author-who-captured-the-bush-before-may-gibbs-australiana-empire-237564

Click here for a list of Louisa Meredith books held by the library - https://library.dcceew.gov.au/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?idx=&q=meredith%2C+louisa

Nature Communications Volume 15, Article number: 8467 (2024)

Reducing herbivory in mixed planting by genomic prediction of neighbor effects in the field
Yasuhiro Sato, Rie Shimizu-Inatsugi, Kazuya Takeda, Bernhard Schmid, Atsushi J. Nagano & Kentaro K. Shimizu
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-52374-7

Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology

A diverse assemblage of monotremes (Monotremata) from the Cenomanian Lightning Ridge fauna of New South Wales, Australia
Timothy F. Flannery, et al.
Pages 319-337 | Received 31 Oct 2023, Accepted 24 Apr 2024, Published online: 26 May 2024
https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2024.2348753

HOPE (Householder’s Options to Protect the Environment) Inc.

A review of Pest Animals and Plants in Australia
By Lizzie Pennington, HOPE researcher Qld (August 2024)
https://www.hopeaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/A-Review-of-Pest-Animals-and-Plants-in-Australia-by-Lizzie-Pennington-HOPE-researcher-Qld-Dec-2024.pdf

iScience Volume 27, Issue 5, 17 May 2024, 109729

On the trail of a critically endangered fungus: A world-first application of wildlife detection dogs to fungal conservation
Michael D. Amor et al
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.109729

The Conversation

Ancient mud reveals Australia’s burning history over the past 130,000 years – and shows a way through our fiery future
Published: November 1, 2024 6.15am AEDT
Michela Mariani, Anna Florin, Haidee Cadd, Matthew Adeleye, Simon Connor
https://theconversation.com/ancient-mud-reveals-australias-burning-history-over-the-past-130-000-years-and-shows-a-way-through-our-fiery-future-239561
 

New additions to the Collection

• Our grassy landscapes : a celebration of the people who care for them / Jenny Horsfield.
• Orchids of the Southern Tablelands of NSW including the ACT / Tobias Hayashi & Jean Egan with Roger Farrow & Tony Wood.
• Lilies of Australia : including their relatives and lookalikes / David L Jones.
• The botanists' library : the most important botanical books in history / Carolyn Fry and Emma Wayland.
• Cronin's key guide to Australian wildflowers / Leonard Cronin.
• The Routledge handbook of human research ethics and integrity in Australia / edited by Bruce M. Smyth, Michael A. Martin, and Mandy Downing.
• The forbidden garden of Leningrad : a true story of science and sacrifice in a city under siege / Simon Parkin.
• Botanical sketchbooks : an artist's guide to plant studies / Lucy T Smith.
• The natural gardener : advice and inspiration for wildening your garden / Richard Unsworth ; photography by Nicholas Watt.
• Health : spirit, country and culture / Shawana Andrews, Sandra Eades & Fiona Stanley.