Library Connect, September 2019

The September 2019 edition of Library Connect (PDF, 880 kB) includes:

• Australian Reading Hour – this annual event is on again on Thursday 19 September. You are invited to join thousands of people from around Australia as they pick up a book and read for an hour anytime on the day.
• An article on the Flora of Australia online resource, featured in the August edition of Hort Journal.
• A note on the ABRS update in Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter.
• New books:
  • Wildflowers of the Narrandera and Cocoparra Ranges / Eric Whiting.
  • Botany of Rotorua / Bruce Clarkson, Mark Smale & Chris Ecroyd.
  • Ghosts of Gondwana: the history of life in New Zealand / George Gibbs.
  • Young Dark Emu: a truer history / Bruce Pascoe.
  • Life of marsupials / Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe.
  • Where the slime mould creeps (2nd edition) / Sarah Lloyd.
  • Seed Libraries and other means of keeping seeds in the hands of the people / Cindy Conner
• Featured e-journal: BMC Plant Biology
• From the ANBG archive: Card sorting key to the identification, properties and uses of the principal commercial Australian timbers.