New Business Titles
“Researching, Writing and Presenting Reports” by Kay Waters 2000 Edition. From the back cover:Knowing how to write comprehensive and accurate documents is a skill that everyone can develop. Students will learn how to research reports: where to look and how to use primary and secondary sources. They will also learn how to deal with copyright [...]
Australian Women In History Display
To celebrate ‘Australian Women In History Month’ the library is currently hosting a display celebrating the contribution women have made to Australian society from early times to the present day.The theme for 2008 is, Women On A Mission, which will look at the efforts of Australian women who have pursued a career or life path [...]
Earth Hour 2008
See the difference you can make 8pm March 29 for ideas and support log on to the web site below: http://www.earthhour.org/
Fewer Tourists Dropping into Sydney Harbour
Travel & TourismA recent article in the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper states that Sydney is experiencing a decline both in visitors and visitor nights. http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/sydney-loses-tourists-on-the-shuttle/2008/03/13/1205126107129.htmlThe author is Dr Olivia Jenkins, Tourism NSW’s manager of insights and research. In the article she offers some reasons for the reduction in visitor numbers, from Tourism NSW’s media spending [...]
Design talent at The Strand Arcade
Ultimo Fashion Design Studio students are displaying their wares at The Strand Arcade, 412 – 414 George St, Sydney. The Future Directions Exhibition will be held across all three levels of The Strand from 3 to 30 March between 9am and 5.30pm. See some truly amazing fashions, including the 2008 TAFE Croser Award winning evening [...]
New Books for General Education
Quarterly Essays: Exit right: the unravelling of John Howard. By Judith Brett.Judith Brett explains why the tide turned on John Howard. This is an essay about leadership, in particular Howard’s style of strong leadership which led him to dominate his party with such ultimately catastrophic results. 320.994/BRET Advance Australian Where? How we’ve changed, why we’ve [...]
Life as we may come to know it
Just to cover the 1.8 million known species, a book covering them all would have to be over 90 metres longA website is being constructed called Encyclopedia Of Life www.eol.org which aims to produce a list of all speciesThe EOL staff is made up of scientists and non-scientists working from museums and research institutions around [...]
New Business Books
“Australian Relations in Australia : work and workplaces” by Richard Sappey, John Burgess, Michael Lyons, Jeremy Buultjens (Paperback)2006 EditionFrom the back cover:Industrial Relations in Australia is a new text that provides a comprehensive coverage of institutional and workplace industrial relations issues. It is suitable for introductory IR courses at an undergraduate or postgraduate level. The [...]
New Reference Titles
1001 buildings you must see before you die Stunning photographs show the brilliance of architects past and present. REF720.9/ONET 1001 classical recordings you must hear before you die Arranged chronologically with a list of quotations and biographical information about the composers, conductors and principal musicians REF781.6/ONET 501 movie directors A comprehensive guide to the masters [...]