Anthropology Online - Trial

Anthropology Online is a collection of written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs, and contemporary studies. These books and text resources complement Ethnographic Video Online (a service subscribed to by JCU) and would be integrated with it if JCU subscribes.

This trial is available until 6 March 2012. Trials are available both on campus or off campus (with a JCU user name and password). The trial links are also to be found on the library Trials web page.

Observations or comments (positive and negative) on the trials and value of the services are always appreciated and may be directed to the Faculty and School Librarians or to Neil Renison, Information Resources. Alternatively, you can complete our online Database Trial Feedback form.

New Look for Library Web Site

The Library launches a refreshed home page on 6 February 2012.

The site has been redeveloped after consultation and testing with JCU students.

The home page uses less library terms  and has been designed to reflect four goals:

1. Find knowledge and  academic resources (e.g. article, book or other library resource)
2. Learn how to acquire an information skill (e.g. referencing)
3. Connect to ICT resources and services (e.g.  mobiles )
4. About the Library - who we are, what we do and how we can help you

The home page is your portal to library resources and services for learning, teaching and research.

A big thank you  to the students who participated in the usability testing and our ongoing thanks to all staff, students and community who provide comments, and suggestions!

Your comments and suggestions are welcome.  Please use the News and Suggestions button  to provide your feedback.

Phase Two Under Construction

Phase one of the Mabo Library redevelopment is complete and a number of our new features are now open - such as the new service desk, the new south entrance and the new Assistive Technologies lab. Now Phase Two has commenced! The result will be the new 24 hour Information Learning Commons and a suite of iLearning rooms.

Acoustic hoarding has been installed to minimise noise and dust; and the noisiest work will be done after hours when the Library isn't open. But there will be some noise. You are encouraged to go to the western side, top floor of the building to avoid the most noise.

Progress updates will be posted on the website

Thank you for your patience.

Heather Gordon
Director, Library & Information Services
Deputy Head, University Services Division
Eddie Koiki Mabo Library
James Cook University
Angus Smith Drive, Douglas, QLD 4811

Indigenous Family History at Townsville City Council

Wadda Mooli,

Libraries are a great place to learn about that aspect of history in school we often fail to realise- our ancestors were living and breathing during eventful times, lived differently and held values often completely opposite of what we hold today. One way to bring the big picture history to life is to learn about your private family history.

Townsville City Council is hosting a session by the Department of Communities and Personal Histories for Indigenous Australians. Indigenous Australians when tracing family histories and genealogies encounter issues like some other Australians that no records exist in Birth, Deaths and Marriages. Often due to the history of Australia since 1788 Aboriginal Australians existed politically and socially outside of the European Australian society of the time, often were in open conflict with the trespassers or being increasingly subjected to exclusion or control by colonial state forces. These all affected the types of ways Aboriginal people were recorded and how and what records were preserved. For me I only have to go back two generations to the 1930s til the 1970s and members of my family appear in Exemption Certificate Records and controlled wages funds. To go further like my Uncle (Murri Way) T. Rose did means oral histories are to be explored by looking at station records for wage entries, store purchases or diary entries visiting grave yards and looking at old newspapers.

If you are a Murri or Islander or have friends or family who are point them at this,

2 Day Indigenous Family History Workshop

Get along to this popular workshop.

Kathy Frankland,

Department of Communities and Personal Histories

Brisbane will share vital information on the Indigenous Australian

Family history.

All welcome.

When: Friday, 24 February, 9.30am-3.30pm

Saturday, 25 February, 9.30am-3.30pm

Audience: Adult

Venue: CityLibraries Thuringowa Central

Cost: Free

Bookings are essential.

Contact Janeese Henaway Phone 47278317

Or

Book online at www.townsville.qld.gov.au/facilities/libraries or contact your local library.

http://host7.evanced.info/townsville/evanced/eventcalendar.asp?ln=ALL

Looming threat to global research

The United States House of Representatives is currently debating a new bill, The Research Works Act. This bill is supported by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and the Copyright Alliance, and opposed by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, the Alliance for Taxpayer Access, the American Library Association, the International Society for Computational Biology, and prominent open science and open access advocates. If enacted, this bill will benefit publishers by putting significant limits on freely sharing US scientific research. If the Research Works Act is passed, then it is quite likely that we will see similar actions commenced by the Australian publishing industry. Limiting access to quality research via some kind of open access means (ie. University repositories or open access publishers like PubMed) can only diminish the quality of research produced across the globe.


For more news on this topic have a look at:
Academic publishers have become the enemies of science
A small bill in the US, a giant impact for research worldwide
The Research Works Act: A damaging threat to science

One Search now includes eJournal Titles and improved coverage of eBooks

The latest enhancement to the Library's One Search service is the inclusion of tens of thousands of eJournal titles we subscribe to.

You can limit One Search to just a journal title search by checking the Journal/eJournal box and you will see both our print and electronic journals. To limit to only those available online check the Items with full text online box.

In addition our substantial eBooks collection is now also fully listed in One Search.

Scheduled outage: ProQuest

ProQuest will be performing infrastructure maintenance on Sunday 5th February. As a result, ProQuest databases be unavailable for a period of approx 12 hours (from 1pm on Sunday 5th February to 1am on Monday 6th February).

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Please see the staff at the InfoHelp desk if you need any assistance.