Event: Australian Aboriginal People and their Plants

The Friends of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens and The Friends of the University of Adelaide Library invite you to a joint occasion with Dr Philip Clarke.

The presentation will demonstrate the relevance of the modern study of Aboriginal ethnobotany and will be followed by tours of plantings of Aboriginal plants in the Australian Forest, the Bicentennial Conservatory and the Mallee collections, led by Friends Garden Guides.

Dr Clarke is Head of Anthropology and Manager of Sciences at the SA Museum.

Date: Thursday 15 October 2009

Time: 1.00pm

Venue: Noel Lothian Hall, Adelaide Botanic Gardens (rear of Herbarium, Hackney Road)

Admission is free and open to all: gold coin donation invited

Places are limited: bookings essential

Email: friendsabg@internode.on.net

Telephone: Stephanie 8222 9367 Wed-Fri or leave message

Event: John Bannon: Downer and Kingston: SA themes of Federation

The Friends of the University of Adelaide Library

The Friends of the University of Adelaide Library invite you to a free author event with John Bannon on Thursday 24 September 2009 at 6.00 for 6.30pm.

Venue:Ira Raymond Exhibition Room, Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide

 

John Bannon will speak on Federation themes in South Australian political history with reference to his recent book Supreme Federalist: The political life of Sir John Downer and his doctoral research on Charles Kingston.

Both figures were highly influential in different ways on the State and the Nation, both held office as Premier of the State, and both took leading roles in Constitutional deliberations and the complex movements towards Federation.

John Bannon is an Adjunct Professor of Law specialising in constitutional history and federal/state relations, and former Master of St Mark’s College at the University of Adelaide.

He was Premier and Treasurer of South Australia from 1982 to 1992, and is a former member of the Board of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

 

Bookings by Tuesday 22 September to:
Email: robina.weir@adelaide.edu.au

Telephone: 8303 4064

Admission is free and open to the public: gold coin donation invited.

Paul Wilkins

Deputy University Librarian

Barr Smith Library

Wines by:

Trial: BioOne

BioOne is currently home to 154 publications from 113 publishers. These titles focus on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences and are produced by societies and non-commercial publishers. For its users—students, researchers, and unaffiliated individuals—BioOne provides a unique aggregation of high-impact bioscience research journals, featuring timely content on a wide-array of today’s most pressing topics, including global warming, stem cell research, ecological and biodiversity conservation.

Comprehensive title list available from http://www.bioone.org/page/about/content/titles.

Access available from here until Nov. 19, 2009. Titles are browseable by title, publisher and the BioOne collection they belong to. Please note we have access to all collections.

Change to 24-hour computing suite

Over the past couple of weeks, those who use the 24-hour computing suite in the Barr Smith Library will have noticed some changes being made. Lounge chairs have gone, replaced by more PC tables. This is in preparation for additional PCs to be installed.

What’s happening is that the Huxley suite in the Physics building is being relocated to the Barr Smith Library, due to construction in the Physics building. The 30 PCs in the Huxley suite will be moved, with their printer, to the 24 hour suite in the Library. The 24 PCs and printer currently in the 24-hour suite will be relocated to Level 1 North.

When finished, we will have an extra 30 PCs available for use in the library, and a much bigger student PC suite on Level 1, with better printing. The 24-hour suite will occasionally be used for teaching purposes, making it unavailable for general use when teaching is in progress. A schedule of teaching periods will be posted in the suite.

Next week, on Monday 21st and Tuesday 22nd September, the suite will be unavailable while final changes are made. There will also be disruption to the student computers on Level 1 North of the library. We apologise for any inconvenience caused, and we feel sure you will appreciate the changes on completion of the project.

Talk: Treasures of the Barr Smith Library Special Collections

Art & Heritage Collections invite you to a Cultural Conversation with Cheryl Hoskin, Special Collections Librarian.
1 – 2pm Wednesday 16 September 2009
Ira Raymond Room, Barr Smith Library
The University of Adelaide, North Terrace Campus
Free — all welcome

In this Conversation Cheryl Hoskin, Special Collections Librarian,
will present an insight into some of the rarely seen treasures of the
Barr Smith Library Special Collections, along with donor narratives
and some of her ‘favourite things’.
Special Collections houses the Library’s most valuable and vulnerable
publications, including many manuscripts and rare and limited editions.
The Collections have particular strengths in Australiana and South
Australian history, indigenous Australian history and language, 19th
century literature and culture, and natural history. Smaller collections
focus on Pacific history and culture, British and Australian theatre,
and the history of the book, while institutional and personal papers
are collected to support University research.

For more information and to RSVP please call Sally Foster on 8303 3086
or email art.heritage@adelaide.edu.au

Facebook page takes off!

We’re pretty excited here today, because our Facebook page just reached 1200 fans! (Actually 1203 as I type.) And looking at all the University Libraries with a Facebook page — over 400 — it turns out that we are number 5 in the world in terms of number of fans!

Thanks to all of you who have joined our Facebook page, for making it a success.

But we want this page to be useful, and to be more than a one-way conversation from us to you. We would like to see more comments, and we would like to see some discussion going on in the discussion area — just click on the Discussions tab and the start a new discussion. We’d love to hear your thoughts on how we are doing, and on what kinds of service you’d like to see offered. We can’t promise a jacuzzi, but it would be fun to know if you wanted one! But seriously, we’re lucky to live in a time of major changes to the way information is provided and discovered, and we would truly like to hear your ideas on this, and on any other aspect of the library.

And be sure to become a Fan of our page on Facebook, and tell all your friends to do the same.

Exhibition: David Reid ‘Shanghai Landscapes’

The Confucius Institute and Art & Heritage Collections of the
University of Adelaide present an exhibition of works on paper by David Reid.

‘Shanghai Landscapes’ will be on display in the entrance foyer of the Barr Smith Library from 4 September to 18 October 2009, during normal Library opening hours.

The ‘Shanghai Landscapes’ exhibition is a result of over four years of close connections with and travel to Shanghai where the artist discovered a wealth of art materials and was able to put into practice his passion for Chinese cultural expressions and landscape. His work is cross-cultural as it reaches into another culture and presents it by employing traditional Chinese techniques in a new way. The work is subtle but vibrant, leaving the viewer to connect the dots and experience Shanghai as a contemporary metropolis.

David Reid attended the University of New South Wales and Sydney University and is now based in Adelaide. Early in his career he was mentored and trained by prominent established artists, which proved pivotal in starting his successful art practice. Reid has exhibited widely and was selected as a finalist in the Mosman Art Prize and the Muswellbrook Art Prize. He is represented by Aptos Cruz Gallery in Adelaide and works cross culturally with a special focus on Asia, especially China, where he is respected for the way in which he uses the traditional medium of ink on Chinese paper in startlingly innovative ways. His works are in private and public collections.

Exhibition launch
David Zhu, Shanghai-born designer, will launch the Celebration and Anne Warr, author of Watermark Architecture Guide to Shanghai and architectural historian, will highlight key architectural features of Shanghai and elaborate on how they connect with this exhibition.
5.30 – 7.00pm Thursday 10 September 2009
Ira Raymond Room, Barr Smith Library
The University of Adelaide, North Terrace Campus
Complimentary — all welcome

Public Lecture
‘Shanghai: City of Paradox’ by Anne Warr
1.10 – 2.30pm Friday 11 September 2009
Room 529 Ligertwood Building, North Terrace Campus

Anne Warr is an architect, academic and Shanghai resident with a masters degreee in heritage conservation. She is also a founding member of Explore Shanghai Heritage, a group dedicated to raising awareness of the architectural heritage of the city.