Library Connect March 2024

This edition of Library Connect has the usual listing of new books, a game*, and links to articles on digitizing handwritten data and on spectacular Australian plant fossils. 

Past issues of Library Connect are available on the library catalogue site. https://library.dcceew.gov.au/cgi-bin/koha/opac-page.pl?page_id=22

The library is staffed Mon - Fri 9.30 - 4.30 or Alex can 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

Nature - Technology Feature, 5 March 2024
Five tips for digitizing handwritten data.
Need to digitize field notes or historical documents? Researchers share their best practices.
By Alla Katsnelson
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00646-z

The Conversation
A botanical Pompeii: we found spectacular Australian plant fossils from 30 million years ago
Published: February 21, 2024 10.26am AEDT
https://theconversation.com/a-botanical-pompeii-we-found-spectacular-australian-plant-fossils-from-30-million-years-ago-222512

New additions to the collection

The endemic flora of Tasmania / painted by Margaret Stones; botanical and ecological text by Winifred Curtis.

Monopoly: fast-dealing property trading game: CBR, Canberra edition*.

* The Australian National Botanic Gardens is the first square on the board after you pass Go. A brown square, it is worth 60 Monopoly dollars.

Australian native food harvest: a guide for the passionate cook and gardener / by Julie Weatherhead.

Kimberley monsoon rainforests: islands in a sea of savanna / by Kevin F. Kenneally.

Western Australian plant names and their meanings: a glossary / A. S. George & F. A. Sharr.

Orchids of Victoria: a field guide / Rudie H. Kuiter.

A practical guide to planting tubestock paddock trees / John R. Baker.

The nation of plants / Stefano Mancuso

Mini-forest revolution: using the Miyawaki method to rapidly rewild the world / Hannah Lewis

The memory of trees: the future of eucalypts and our home among them / Viki Cramer.