New in the ANBG Library

November 2010

last month: Sept-Oct

The Gardens’ Library is located on the first floor of the Botany Building at the ANBG, Clunies Ross Street, Black Mountain.
Opening hours are 9.30am to 4.30pm, Monday to Friday. Members of the public may use the library by appointment.

The bulletin contains a list of new material recently received in the library. These items together with recent issues of journals and magazines are on display in the ANBG Library for approximately three to four weeks. All registered library clients are welcome to use the library and photocopy display items or reserve items for loan.

Staff may request items from the bulletin by phone, fax or email.
Phone: (02) 6250 9480
Fax: (02) 6250 9432
Email: ANBG.library@environment.gov.au

BOOKS & PAMPHLETS

Web accessibility national transition strategy: the Australian Government’s adoption and implementation of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.0 (WCAG 2.0)
Australian Government Information Management Office
Barton, ACT : AGIMO, 2010
Also available via the Internet at: http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/wcag-2-implementation/index.html
004.678 AUS

The World of Tidbinbilla: where to go … what to do … how to find
Wendy P. Rainbird, Jannifer R. Widdowson & Valerie A. Brown
Kambah, ACT : Southern ACT Catchment Group, [2010].
333.78309947 WOR

Remnants of Gondwana: a natural and social history of the Gondwana rainforests of Australia
Roger Kitching, Richard Braithwaite and Janet Cavanaugh (eds.)
Baulkham Hills, NSW : Surrey Beatty & Sons, 2010
577.340994 REM

The Kew plant glossary: an illustrated dictionary of plant terms
Henk Beentje
Richmond, Kew : Kew Publishing, 2010
REF 580.14 BEE

Botanic gardens: modern-day arks
Sara Oldfield
London : New Holland, 2010
Emphasis is on the conservation role of botanic gardens. Only Australian example is Kings Park and Botanic Garden in Perth.
580.73 OLD

Australian Plants special 40 th anniversary Australian National Botanic Gardens issue
[NSW]: Society for Growing Australian Plants, 2010
Australian Plants, vol. 25, no. 204, Sept 2010
580.739471 AUS

Growing Australia’s national garden: Australian National Botanic Gardens
[ Canberra : ANBG, 2010]
10 p. promotional booklet.
P 580.739471 GRO

Forest bountiful: settler’s use of Australian plants
Penny Watsford
Murwillumbah, NSW : Nullum Publications, 2010
For northeast NSW and southeast Queensland.
581.63099443 WAT

Medicinal plants in Australia. Volume 1. Bush pharmacy
Cheryll Williams
Dural, NSW : Rosenberg, 2010
581.6340994 WIL

Is that plant poisonous ? an Australian field guide for livestock, pets and people
RCH Shepherd
Meredith, Vic. : RG & FJ Richardson, 2010
REF 581.6590994 SHE

Native plants of the Sydney region: from Newcastle to Nowra and west to the Dividing Range, 3 rd edn
Alan Fairley & Philip Moore
Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2010
REF 581.99441 FAI

Eucalypts: a celebration
John Wrigley & Murray Fagg
Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2010
583.766 WRI

Fern ecology
Klaus Mehltreter, Lawrence R. Walker, Joanne M. Sharpe (eds.)
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010
587.3 FER

Checklist of the birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica, 4 th edn
Checklist Committee, Ornithological Society of New Zealand
Wellington, NZ : Te Papa Press, 2010
ABRS 598.0993 CHE

Horticulture careers 2010/2011
[S.l.]: Rural Press, 2010
Includes articles by industry training leaders, profiles on young horticulturists and information on recent developments at training institutions.
Also available via the Internet at: http://www.farmonline.com.au/
P 635.2394 HOR

The Canberra gardener, 10 th edn
Canberra : Horticultural Society of Canberra, 2010
635.909947 CAN

Creating an Australian garden
Angus Stewart
Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2010
635.95194 STE

Planting and maintaining a tree collection
Simon Toomer
Portland, Or. : Timber Press, 2010
635.977 TOO

Botanical painting with coloured pencils
Ann Swan
London : Collins, 2010
743.7 SWA

REPRINTS AND VERTICAL FILE

Gerritsen, R 2010, ‘Evidence for indigenous Australian agriculture’, Australasian Science, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 35-37.

Godefroid, S & Vanderborght, T 2010, ‘Seed banking of endangered plants: are we conserving the right species to address climate change ?’, Biodiversity and Conservation, vol. 19, pp. 3049-3058.

Martin, H 2010, ‘Landmark flower find: rare Tassie daisy at last correctly identified’, Sunday Tasmanian, 14 Nov 2010, p. 15.
Craspedia cynurica, the Tasman Peninsula Billy button, has been identified by Andrew Rozefelds, Alex Buchanan and Kerry Ford.

Phillips, N 2010, ‘The life botanic leads to the head of the Kew’, Sydney Morning Herald, 17 Nov 2010, p. 3.
Tim Entwisle, the director of the NSW Botanic Gardens Trust is to become the next director of conservation, living collections and estates at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, London.

ANNUAL REPORTS

Australian Garden History Society 2009/2010

Director of National Parks 2009/10
Supervising Scientist 2009-210

ARCHIVE COLLECTION

Oral histories
Interviews conducted by Daniel Connell for the National Library of Australia in 2008
Helen Hadobas, Leslie Lockwood, Peter Ollerenshaw, Mark Richardson, and Jan Wilson.
Archive 2008/22-26 [10 audio CDs – not for loan]
Archive 2008/21 [Disk with the interviews loaded as MP3 files – available for loan]

Nonpotable water supply to the Botanic Gardens and internal water reticulation for the Director of National Parks
Engineering House
Norwood, SA : Engineering House, 2009?
16 technical drawings.
Archive – Map Cabinet

Craven, LA, Lepschi, BJ & Cowley, KJ 2010, ‘Melaleuca (Myrtaceae) from the south-west of Western Australia : three new combinations, one new name and a new state record’, Nuytsia, vol. 20, pp. 27-36 [published online 29/9/2010 at
http://www.dec.wa.gov.au/images/stories/nature/science/nuytsia/20/027-036.pdf ]

Carmen, Paul 2009, ‘Monga or Braidwood waratah, Telopea mongaensis’, Australian Plants, vol. 25, no. 201, pp. 170-173.

Carmen, Paul 2010, ‘The checklist of Australian native plant cultivars’, vol. 25, no. 202, pp. 235-238.

Carmen, Paul 2010, ‘ Australia’s national living collection’, Australian Plants, vol. 25, no. 204, Sep 2010, pp. 302-304.

Carmen, Paul 2010, ‘The Australian National Botanic Gardens’ role in securing endangered species: a focus on Zieria obcordata’, Australian Plants, vol. 25, no. 204, Sep 2010, pp. 316-320.

Carmen, Paul 2010, ‘Pot displays with Sturt’s desert pea (Swainsona formosa)’, Australian Plants, vol. 25, no. 204, Sep 2010, pp. 333-334.

Fagg, M 2010, ‘Australian National Botanic Gardens: some personal reflections over 40 years’, Australian Plants, vol. 25, no. 204, Sept 2010, pp. 297-301.

Golson, Toby 2010, ‘Creating a rainforest in Canberra’, Australian Plants, vol. 25, no. 204, pp. 305-309.

Hurle, Phil & Clarke, Bruce 2010, ‘ Pest and disease management: a holistic approach’, Australian Plants, vol. 25, no. 204, pp. 321-327.

Laing, Doug 2010, ‘Thatch or kentia palm, Howea forsteriana’, Australian Plants, vol. 25, no. 204, p. 335.

Miller, Joe 2010, ‘The evolution of the Australian acacias’, Australian Plants, vol. 25, no. 204, pp. 328-332.

Sutherland, Lucy A. 2010 ‘Plant stories – inspiring people about Qld plants’. Powerpoint presentation to Gladstone Tondoon Botanic Gardens, 12 August 2010.

Sweet, Heather & Hoyle, Gemma 2010, ‘The alpine seed research project’, Australian Plants, vol. 25, no. 204, pp. 310-315.

Taylor, David & Browning, Kaiya 2010, ‘Growing the garden out of the grassland – the challenge of a threatened community garden in a prominent public space’, Australian Plants, vol. 25, no. 204, pp. 338-343.

West, Judy 2010, ‘Introduction: the Australian National Botanic Gardens’, Australian Plants, vol. 25, no. 204, pp. 295-296.

Wicksteed, Pauline 2010, ‘ Queensland bottle tree, Brachychiton rupestre [sic, rupestris]’, Australian Plants, vol. 25, no. 204, pp. 335-336.

Wilson, Doreen 2010, ‘Antarctic beech, Nothofagus moorei’, Australian Plants, vol. 25, no. 204, p. 337.

ANBG Volunteer Guides’ meeting minutes 19 Oct 2010
Growing Friends record of meeting 6 Nov 2010

CONFERENCES, COURSES and EVENTS

# Indicates a new listing

Systematic botany across the ditch: links between Australia and New Zealand
2010 Australian Systematic Botany Society Conference
29 Nov – 3 Dec 2010
Lincoln University, Canterbury, NZ
http://www.anbg.gov.au/asbs/conferences.html

# 2011 ABRS Churchill Fellowships
A call to apply.
For the study of overseas taxonomic research on Australian flora or fauna
Applications close 28 February 2011
http://www.churchilltrust.com.au

# 13 th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution Palaeontology and Systematics (CAVEPS)
27-30 April 2011
Perth Cultural Centre, WA
http://wa-oigc.curtin.edu.au/conference.cfm

XVIII International Botanical Congress
24-30 July 2011
Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre
http://www.ibc2011.com/

# 23 rd Asian-Pacific Weed Science Society Conference
25-30 September 2011
The Sebel, Cairns, FNQ
Call for papers
http://www.apwss.com/