Library Connect April / May 2025

This edition of Library Connect has the usual listing of new books,some new artworks, the new art shelving unit and a few articles for your interest. Most of the framed art collection is available for loan to offices and secure areas on site. Please contact me to choose something to brighten up your office space! 

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

BHL News
A New Future for the Biodiversity Heritage Library
https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-future-for-bhl.html

The Conversation
A budget splash to conserve 30% of Australia’s lands will save species – if we choose the right 30%
Published: March 25, 2025. 4.18pm AEDT
James Watson
https://theconversation.com/a-budget-splash-to-conserve-30-of-australias-lands-will-save-species-if-we-choose-the-right-30-252918

Nature
2 April 2025
Global impoverishment of natural vegetation revealed by dark diversity
Meelis Pärtel et al
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08814-5

The Conversation
Botanic gardens are struggling to keep up with the biodiversity crisis – here’s what they can do
Published: February 28, 2025. 1.31am AEDT
Samuel Brockington
https://theconversation.com/botanic-gardens-are-struggling-to-keep-up-with-the-biodiversity-crisis-heres-what-they-can-do-248722

Scientometrics
Volume 130, pages 2475–2492, (2025)
Reference coverage analysis of OpenAlex compared to Web of Science and Scopus
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-025-05293-3

Swainsona
38 (2): 45-72 (2024)
The Gullivers’ travels: Thomas Allen Gulliver (1848–1931), Benjamin John Gulliver (1851–1938) and Susannah Gulliver (1857–1938): their contribution to Australian natural history and horticulture
Dowe, J.L. & Short, P.S.
https://data.environment.sa.gov.au/Plants-and-Animals/Herbarium-Journals/Pages/Journal-Search.aspx?volume=38&partno=2&published_on=2024
 

New additions to the collection

• Rainforests of Australia’s East Coast / Peter Krisch.
• Indigenous knowledge : Australian perspectives / edited by Marcia Langton, Aaron Corn and Samuel Curkpatrick.
• Orchids of Australia / David L. Jones.
• Marianne North : a Victorian painter for the 21st century / Lynne Howarth-Gladston.
• Flowers in the dust : a florilegium – paintings of the native flora of Queensland’s Desert Uplands / botanical watercolour paintings by Jenny Mace ; botanical text by William Green and Martina Dexter ; Desert Uplands overview by Peter Forrest.
• On the necessity of gardening : an ABC of art, botany and cultivation / Laurie Cluitmans (ed.)
• Bountiful botanicals : Indigenous uses of Australian native plants : a Botanical Art Worldwide exhibition / presented by The Botanical Art Society of Australia, Inc.
• Australia’s strategy for nature 2024–2030 : Australia’s national biodiversity strategy and action plan / prepared by the Biodiversity Working Group.
• Asplenium nidus – Bird’s nest fern [art original] / Jenny Mun.
• Norfolk Island Green Parrot [art reproduction] / Dale Howe.
• Phaeoceros inflatus [art original] / Julie Ryder and Christine Cargill.
• Australian Alps : Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks / Deirdre Slattery.
• The Bee Squad : boosting biodiversity in your neighbourhood / Judy Friedlander.
• Australian Vegetation Attribute Manual : National Vegetation Information System, Version 7.0 / NVIS Technical Working Group.
• The new art shelving unit in the Rare Book Room.