Library Connect July 2026

New Librarian Ainslee Austin writes:

I’m Ainslee, the new librarian, and the library is once again staffed Monday – Friday 9.30am – 4.30pm.

Please find the July 2026 edition of Library Connect attached. It has the usual listing of new books, a few articles for your interest, an invitation to browse some books which are ‘free to good home’ and a reminder that I’m available to assist with obtaining full text of journal articles locked behind paywalls if we have access via partnership agreements.

This edition of Library Connect has the usual listing of new books, a few articles for your interest and an invitation to browse some books which are ‘free to good home’.

The “click and collect” boxes in the Visitor Centre are still available for returning items, and I’m very happy to leave items there for collection if that’s easier than visiting the library.

If you need assistance, I can be contacted by email at anbg.library@dcceew.gov.au or by phone at 02 6250 9480.

For your interest

The Conversation
Wilsons Prom has been scarred by bushfires. It may help us protect other fire-prone forests.
6 July 2026
Tom Fairman
https://theconversation.com/wilsons-prom-has-been-scarred-by-bushfires-it-may-help-us-protect-other-fire-prone-forests-283377

The Conversation
This rare Australian wattle is on the brink of extinction: new research.
16 July 2026
Brittany Hogben, Andrew Lowe, Colette Blyth and James B. Dorey
https://theconversation.com/this-rare-australian-wattle-is-on-the-brink-of-extinction-new-research-287362?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/world

Ecological Management & Restoration, 2026, Vol 27(3), e70058
Using Expert Knowledge to Guide Transparent Mapping of Occupiable Threatened Species Habitat for Environmental Impact Assessment Purposes
Rob Armstrong, Nat O’Rourke, Laura Schweickle, Kate Newman, Josh Dorrough
https://doi.org/10.1111/emr.70058

Environmental Microbiology Reports, 2026, 18:e70348
Pilliga Ghosts: The Novel Fungi of the Rivers, Creeks, Lakes, and Dams of the Narrabri Region, Australia.
Kim L. J. Porter, Richard Schinteie, Carla Mariani, Paul Greenfield, Se Gong, Stephen Sestak, Nai Tran-Dinh, David J. Midgley
https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.70348

Journal of Coastal Research, 2026, Vol. 42(4), pp. 644 – 653.
Using recycled glass substrate for seed germination in 17 common coastal dune and maritime plants.
Kristen E. Allen, T. Getty Hammer, Jeremiah A. Henning
https://www.jstor.org/stable/48871827

Nature
‘Every box has been opened’: London botanic gardens digitizes seven million specimens.
23 June 2026
Davide Castelvecchi
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01917-7

New additions to the collection

Unsung heroes of pollination : more than the birds and the bees / Peter Bernhardt.
A field guide to the ferns of Lord Howe Island / Ian Hutton.
More new taxa of Australasian Orchidaceae / editor, David P. Banks.
Native bees of Australia : a comprehensive guide / Bernhard Jacobi.