Monday, March 31, 2008

Earth hour in the Library


I hoped you all turned your lights off last Saturday night. In recognition of Earth hour (http://www.earthhour.org/) the library’s current display is on Saving our Environment.
You might like to check out some of the following titles


Sustainable Living
Do-it-yourself earth repair : an Australian guide towards better planet habits
Waste and recycling ( Issues in Society)
The environment : promoting sustainability
Sustainable living ( Issues in Society)
Your home, your future, your lifestyle [videorecording]
Our Earth: global warming the evidence

Weather
Australian weather book
The weather and climate of Australia and New Zealand
The weather makers : the history and future impact of climate change by Tim Flannery ( check out the review at)
http://www.smh.com.au/news/book-reviews/the-weather-makers-the-history-and-future-impact-of-climate-chage/2005/10/20/1129401350303.html
Drought in Australia ( Issues in Society)

Global Warming
Climate change : turning up the heat by A. Barrie Pittock (check out the review at)
http://www.csiro.au/resources/psiv.html
Global warming – writing the critical essay(an opposing viewpoint guide)
Greenhouse pollution ( Issues in Society)
Climate change ( Issues in Society)
The great Global Warming Swindle ( off air videorecording) . You have seen Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient truth” now check out the opposing point of view
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/swindle/

Energy
Nuclear power ( Issues in Society)
Renewable energy [videorecording]

Water
Twenty thirst century : the future of water in Australia

Magazines
Ecos
- A CSIRO publication that reports on research in the Environment and sustainability industries .The latest edition looks at the Murray darling basin and farming a climate change solution

Australian Bureau of Statistics
Australian environments Issues and trends 2006

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

International Women's Day resource list






Here is a list of resources available in your library to help celebrate and promote international women's day. For more information on each resource check out the links.


Happy IWD


Women’s History

Pioneer women of the bush and outback
By Jennifer Isaacs

Pioneer Women of the Bush and OutbackLansdowne Publishing 1990Ranging from the beginnings of inland settlement up to recent times, Pioneer Women offers a comprehensive and detailed account of those "ordinary" women who not only bore and reared their children and made their homes in terrible isolation but helped build houses, yards and fences and coped with natural disasters and the twin plagues of rabbits and dust. Drawn from many sources including unpublished diaries, photographs in private families, library material, oral history and interview, Isaacs paints a graphic picture of the lives of those who "knew what is was like to cope with little, to make things from scraps, bags, tins and boxes, and to cook a big dinner over an open fire".

Great pioneer women of the outback
http://www.harpercollins.com.au/global_scripts/product_catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0732276632

Heroic Australian Women in War by Susanna De Vries
http://shop.abc.net.au/browse/product.asp?productid=505791

· Aboriginal Women
Black chicks talking
http://www.qpac.com.au/education/research/black_chicks_talking/
The art of Sally Morgan
http://www.aboriginalartprints.com.au/ab_sallymorgan.cfm
My mother my son [videorecording]
http://www.roninfilms.com.au/feature/2413191061.html




Biography
Stravinsky's lunch http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/sunday/art_profiles/article_636.asp?s=1

Equal Rights

The end of equality : work, babies and women's choices in 21st century Australia
http://www.annesummers.com.au/teoe.htm

Teenage Girls
Girl Stuff
http://www.theage.com.au/news/book-reviews/girl-stuff/2007/11/19/1195321662231.html

Some girls do : my life as a teenager
http://www.girl.com.au/some-girls-do.htm


DVDs
Kandahar [videorecording] Fantastic film about a woman looking for her sister in Afghanistan

http://www.culturekiosque.com/nouveau/cinema/kandahar.html

The taming of the shrew [videorecording]
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/guide/netw/200701/programs/ZY7932A001D21012007T203000.htm
RAN : [videorecording] remote area nurse
http://www.smh.com.au/news/tv-reviews/ran-remote-area-nurse/2006/01/04/1136050480656.html

Memoirs

Sing, and don't cry : a Mexican journal
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2228797.Sing_and_Don_t_Cry_A_Mexican_Journal


Tiger’s Eye
http://www.australianbiography.gov.au/clendinnen/bio.html

Between the ceiling and the sky by Eugenia Tsoulis
Eugenia is an Australian of Greek heritage who has combined her knowledge of migrant experiences with her own experience of Australian arts and poloitical communities to create a compelling story in her first published novel, Between the Ceiling and the Sky