Library Connect September 2026

This edition of Library Connect has new books and a few online articles for your interest.

The Library is staffed Monday – Friday 9.30am – 4.30pm and Ainslee 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 Ainslee is happy to leave items there for collection if that is easier than visiting the Library.

For your interest

ABC News
Rainfall brings ‘super bloom’ of Sturt’s desert pea to outback SA.
20 September 2026
Olivia Mason

Australian Journal of Botany, 74(3)
The botany of money; geographical and sociological patterns in plant images on currency.
May 2026
P.G. Ladd and V. M. Dörken

Botanic Gardens Australia & New Zealand
Twenty Years of Testing: Germination Trials at the Tasmanian Seed Conservation Centre.
3 September 2026
James Wood

Resilient Gardens Series – Part 1: A Conversation with Sue McDougall.
12 September 2026
Julia Watson

Ecological Management & Restoration, 27(3), e70066
A Call for Water—Investigating the Water Requirements for the Endangered Australasian Bittern Botaurus poiciloptilus.
September 2026
Elizabeth Znidersic, Rupert Mathwin, Sarah Talbot, Andrew Hall, Michael Towsey, Skye Wassens

International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums.
13 July 2026

Nature Plants
High-performance living plant collections require a globally integrated data ecosystem to meet twenty-first-century challenges.
9 January 2026
Samuel F. Brockington, Patricia Malcolm, Anthony S. Aiello, et al.

The Conversation
We could soon be able to track changes in Australia’s forests in near-real time – using satellites.
17 September 2026
Brendan Choat

New additions to the collection

The enigmatic echidna : secrets of the world’s most curious creature / Danielle Clode
Exploring nature through citizen science / Erin Roger, Cameron Slatyer and Thomas Mesaglio
What the flora? : incredible stories from the brilliant and bizarre world of plants / Vanessa Fuchs
Guide to accessioning living collections [electronic resource] / Patricia Malcolm & Noelia Álvarez de Román