Library Connect September 2025

This edition of Library Connect has the usual listing of new books and a few articles for your interest, including a reminder that Alex is available to assist with obtaining journal articles locked behind paywalls, advice on literature searching and using EndNote.

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” box in the Visitor Centre is 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

Reconciliation Australia
Respecting and Protecting Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) factsheet
https://www.reconciliation.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/FACTSHEET_Respecting-and-Protecting-ICIP_final_web.pdf

BioScience, Volume 75, Issue 7, July 2025, Pages 545–558
Urban rewilding to combat global biodiversity decline
Patrick B Finnerty et al.
https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaf062

ABC News
Eucalypt trail named after botanist Dean Nicolle opens in SA
Sat 20 Sep
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-20/rail-trail-forest-blyth-dean-nicolle-eucalypt-walk-sa/105779316

Microbiology Australia 2025; 46(3) 163-167
Australian native fruit Davidson’s plum in yoghurt: prebiotic properties and influence on gut microbiome in vitro
Thomas Leadbetter, Said Ajlouni and Chaminda Senaka Ranadheera.
https://doi.org/10.1071/MA25042

The Conversation
New study shows how Amazon trees use recent rainfall in the dry season and support the production of their own rain
Magali Nehemy.
September 1, 2025
https://theconversation.com/new-study-shows-how-amazon-trees-use-recent-rainfall-in-the-dry-season-and-support-the-production-of-their-own-rain-263525

The Scholarly Kitchen
Beyond Classification: The Human Cost of Library and Information Labor Under Digital Capitalism [Guest post]
Mike Olson.
Aug 26, 2025
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/26/guest-post-beyond-classification-the-human-cost-of-library-and-information-labor-under-digital-capitalism/
"Technological advances celebrated for their efficiency are also erasing the human expertise that creates the high-quality metadata these systems depend on to function"
 

New additions to the Collection

• Pasture 'weeds' of the NSW slopes : and adjacent plains / by Harry Rose, Carol Rose and Clare Edwards.
• Conservation and the genomics of populations / Fred W. Allendorf, W. Chris Funk, Sally N. Aitken, Margaret Byrne and Gordon Luikart.
• The man who planted Canberra : Charles Weston & his three million trees / Robert Macklin with Dr John Gray.
• Strahan's mammals of Australia / edited by Andrew M. Baker and Ian C. Gynther.
• Arid shrubland plants of Western Australia / by Andrew Mitchell and David Wilcox.
• Plantology : the essential guide to better gardens / by Teena Crawford & Lisa Ellis.
• Native plants suitable for Western Australian gardens : e-book series / Wildflower Society of Western Australia, Grow sub-committee.
• Beyond green : the social life of Australian nature / Lesley Head.
• The Belgica expedition 1897-1899 : the first expedition to winter in Antarctic waters : a tale of extraordinary scientific achievements and human endurance / Patrick De Deckker.