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Indigenous Family History at Townsville City Council

noreply@blogger.com (Nathan) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:20:00 +0000

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 enties, 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

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

Feature journal: LiNQ

noreply@blogger.com (Claire Ovaska) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:22:00 +0000

LiNQ (Literature in North Queensland) is a fully refereed journal which publishes fiction and poetry, as well as criticism and reviews of regional, national, and international interest to do with literature. Volume 38 with the theme Generations was launched on Monday 19 December. The quality of this issue is a testament to the hard work of its editors (Dr Lindsay Simpson and Dr Victoria Kuttainen), contributors and publication team.

JCU Library receives LiNQ in both print and electronic form, and volume 38 will shortly be available through our collection.

Sir Isaac Newton papers available online

noreply@blogger.com (Claire Ovaska) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:33:00 +0000

From Bridgeman Art Library Archive

Cambridge University Library has made important parts of their Sir Isaac Newton collection available online. This includes Sir Isaac Newton's annotated copy of Principia Mathematica, containing his laws on motion and gravity. More of Sir Isaac Newton's papers will be made available as the Library's digitisation project progresses.

The Sir Isaac Newton papers are only the first of many collections to be digitised by Cambridge University Library. Future releases will also include their Sanskrit manuscript collection, and their Board of Longitude papers. Our thanks go to Cambridge University Library for making these valuable resources available to the world.

Professor Komla Tsey book launch

noreply@blogger.com (Claire Ovaska) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:42:00 +0000

Date/Time: 4:00pm, Friday 16 December 2011
Venue: The Library Foyer, Cairns Campus, James Cook University
MC: Professor Yvonne Cadet-James, Professor of Australian Indigenous Studies, James Cook University
Launch: Professor Jeff Sayer, Program Director, Master of Development Practice, James Cook University

RSVP: Please email Annita Virzi for catering purposes by 14 December 2011.
More Information: Book launch flyer

New title by JCU author: Screen Studies

noreply@blogger.com (Claire Ovaska) — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:02:00 +0000

Chrystopher J. Spicer (School of Arts and Social Sciences)
Clark Gable, In Pictures: Candid images of the actor’s life

From the very beginning of Clark Gable’s screen career, the life of the glamorous film star came under the scrutiny of the camera. While audiences are familiar with the public Gable as seen through the studio lens, the private Gable as seen in photos taken by members of the public, friends, and family is much less known.

This book will be available from JCU Library in the near future.

Featured eBooks: Education

noreply@blogger.com (Claire Ovaska) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 06:19:00 +0000

The Excellence of Play. This book encapsulates all the many changes that have taken place in early childhood in the last ten years. Whilst retaining its original message of the vital importance of play as a tool for learning and teaching for children and practitioners, it consolidates this further with current evidence from research and practice and links the most effective practice with the implementation of recent policies. Its intention is to support all those who work in early childhood education and care in developing and implementing the highest quality play experiences for children from birth to middle childhood.

Working with Families of Young Children with Special Needs. This user-friendly book presents research-based best practices for serving families of children with special needs from birth to age 6. Expert contributors demonstrate how early intervention and early childhood special education can effectively address a wide range of family concerns, which in turn optimizes children's development and learning.

Managing Boys' Behaviour. A practical guide for teachers and trainees on managing boys' behaviour; part of the behaviour management strand. A practical and engaging guide for teachers on tackling boys' behaviour problems. The author analyses the many factors that can lead to boys' misbehaving in class - including SEN, giftedness, peer pressure etc - and shows how their full potential can be unleashed and exploited by teachers. Packed with innovative strategies and useful suggestions, this book should be a must-read for every teacher.

New title by JCU authors: Psychology

noreply@blogger.com (Claire Ovaska) — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:22:00 +0000

Dr Agnes Au, A/Prof. Marie Caltabiano and Dr Nerida Caltabiano (Department of Psychology)
Learning Strategies, Performance Indicators and University Student Satisfaction: What can psychosocial variables tell us?

The research papers collected in this book are pioneering contributions to understanding what leads to student satisfaction in a university setting. The papers provide insights into:
- Why students persevere with their studies
- Self-efficacy and coping styles that students engage in
- The role that locus of control, self-efficacy and trait hope play in student satisfaction
- Time management issues
- Study and employment management.

These investigations result in significant research findings and highlight some of the issues that confront students and what areas could be a focus to improve student satisfaction during their time at tertiary institutions.

Learning Strategies, Performance Indicators and University Student Satisfaction: What can psychosocial variables tell us? will be available in both the Cairns and Townsville libraries in the near future.

New title by JCU author: Education

noreply@blogger.com (Claire Ovaska) — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:01:00 +0000

Dr Kathryn Meldrum (Education)
Learning to Teach Health and Physical Education: The student, the teacher and the curriculum

This is an Australian text about the ‘how to’ of teaching HPE. As a practical text, the book endeavours to equip readers with the skills and knowledge to work with a variety of curricula, contexts and students. Students are encouraged to use this book as a springboard for rich and colourful discussions and activities that explore the broad possibilities that exist for teaching and learning in HPE into the future.

This book will be available in both the Cairns and Townsville libraries in the near future.

Friday brainteaser: Shakespeare

noreply@blogger.com (Claire Ovaska) — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 06:37:00 +0000

William Shakespeare, Credo Reference

Welcome to the Friday Brainteaser from Credo Reference. You may not think you are an expert on literature, but many people can recall things about Shakespeare. Test your knowledge of the Bard with this brainteaser.

In which town was Shakespeare born?
Shakespeare's play "Hamlet" is set in which country?
Who was Shakespeare's wife?
There was a real king of Scotland called Macbeth. Is this true or false?
In which Shakespeare play do the words "Et tu, Brute?" occur?
Which of Shakespeare's comedies includes characters called Oberon, Titania, Puck and Bottom?
In a Shakespeare play, who was described like this: "Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale/Her infinite variety"?
Which Shakespeare story was used as the basis of a 1999 American teenage comedy film, "10 Things I Hate About You"?
Which Shakespeare play includes the words "All the world's a stage"?
The musical by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart called "The Boys from Syracuse" is derived from which Shakespeare play?

Stuck for answers? Check out Credo Reference, or find useful resources via the English LibGuide.

Find out the answers here.(Questions set by Tony Augarde.)

New titles by JCU authors: Indigenous Studies

noreply@blogger.com (Claire Ovaska) — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:47:00 +0000

FAESS staff have been busy publishing in the field of Indigenous Studies this year. Check out their new books:

A/Prof. Rosita Henry (Anthropology and Archaeology)
The Challenge of Indigenous Peoples: Spectacle or politics?
This book is concerned with the ways in which Indigenous peoples express their cultural and social identities in art and politics. Based on field research and practical initiatives with Indigenous peoples in Australia, Oceania, Asia and Siberia, it provides chapters on contemporary creative and political practices.

Prof. Koma Tsey (Education)
Re-Thinking Development in Africa: An oral history approach from Botoku, rural Ghana.
In this thought provoking book, Komla Tsey argues that if governments, NGOs, development donor agencies and researchers are serious about development in Africa, they need to get down to ground level, both metaphorically and literally. They must search deep into Africa’s own rich oral traditions by creating space and opportunity for ordinary Africans, whose voices have so far been conspicuously absent in the development discourse, to tell and share their own stories of development.

Mrs Dorothy Walker (Education)
Island Treasures: Torres Strait children share stories. (on order)
Children from Boigu, Erub and Mabuiag Islands, and Kubin Village on Moa Island, tell wonderful cultural stories and histories of the Torres Strait in this special book. These stories, enhanced by cultural and learning notes, support the National Curriculum and are told from an Indigenous perspective. A valuable education resource, the stories aim to help other communities and cultures better understand and appreciate the customs of the Torres Strait.

New titles by JCU authors: Linguistics

noreply@blogger.com (Claire Ovaska) — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 01:29:00 +0000

The School of Arts and Social Sciences staff have been prolific publishing in the field of linguistics this year. Check out their new and reissued books available at JCU Library.

Dr Mark Post
North East Indian Linguistics Volume 3
(Volume 4 soon to be released)

Prof. Robert Dixon
I am a Linguist
The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia (originally published in 2004)
The Languages of Australia (originally published in 1980)
Searching for Aboriginal Languages: Memoirs of a field worker (originally published in 1984)

Prof. Sasha Aikhenvald
Multi-verb Constructions: A view from the Americas

Prof. Robert Dixon & Prof. Sasha Aikhenvald
Language at Large: Essays on syntax and semantics
The Semantics of Clause Linking: A cross linguistic typology (originally published in 2009)

Julian Barnes winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize

noreply@blogger.com (Helen H) — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:15:00 +0000

Julian Barnes is the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for his book The Sense of an Ending. He has been nominated three times previously, but this is his first win. He has in the past labelled the prize "posh bingo", and he still agrees with this definition of the competition.

The Man Booker Prize for fiction is awarded to the best full length novel in English published in the Commonwealth (Australian Peter Carey has won it twice). Have a look at this year's shortlist and winner, and see if you can find something to read after the semester winds down:

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt Snowdrops by AD Miller.

Happy reading.

New title by JCU author

noreply@blogger.com (Claire Ovaska) — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 02:43:00 +0000

Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal People and the Australian Nation
by Associate Professor Russell McGregor
Dicipline Co-ordinator (History), JCU

Russell McGregor's new book offers a holistic interpretation of the complex relationship between Indigenous and settler Australians during the middle four decades of the 20th century. He combines perspectives of political, social and cultural history in a coherent narrative, providing a cogent analysis of how the relationship changed and the impediments to change.

This book looks like an interesting read, as it explores a period that hasn't been examined in-depth in light of current societal understandings.

Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal People and the Australian Nation will shortly be available for loan from both the Cairns and Townsville campus libraries.

Notice of Townsville library closure

noreply@blogger.com (Claire Ovaska) — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 02:43:00 +0000

JCU Library, Townsville will be closed on Saturday 29 October due to a power outage. The Library will reopen on Sunday 30 October.

We apologise for the inconvenience.

Open Access Week - 24 to 30 October

noreply@blogger.com (Claire Ovaska) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:52:00 +0000

Open Access week is a global event, now in its 5th year, promoting Open Access as a new norm in scholarship and research.

“Open Access” to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need them – has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole.

To celebrate Open Access Week, the Library has developed an Open Access Publishing LibGuide to explain more about Open Access within the JCU context.

For more information, contact Jackie Wolstenholme, the Research Services Librarian.

Library exam opening hours

noreply@blogger.com (Claire Ovaska) — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:49:00 +0000

Are you planning your study schedule for the exam period? Library exam opening hours have been published to help you organise your time.

Good luck!

World History in Video

noreply@blogger.com (Claire Ovaska) — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:01:00 +0000

Alexander Street Press World History in Video is a wide-ranging collection of critically acclaimed documentaries that allow students and researchers to explore human history from the earliest civilizations to the late twentieth century. The video content offered here is global in scope, covering Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania. Videos in the collection include:

Young Children Show Improved Verbal IQ After 20 Days of Exposure to Music-Based, Cognitive Training 'Cartoons'

noreply@blogger.com (Margaret M) — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 08:55:00 +0000

ScienceDaily article of Oct 4 states that Canadian scientists who specialize in learning, memory and language in children have found exciting evidence that pre-schoolers can improve their verbal intelligence after only 20 days of classroom instruction using interactive, music-based cognitive training cartoons.

The study -- conducted at York University by Dr. Sylvain Moreno, who is now with Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute (RRI) -- is posted online October 4 in Psychological Science (a journal of the Association for Psychological Science), ahead of print publication in the October issue of the journal.

Alzheimer's Disease Progression Predicted By Blood Test

noreply@blogger.com (Margaret M) — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:50:00 +0000

Medical News Today article of Oct 4 states that by measuring ratios of two fatty compounds in blood, doctors are now better able to predict how rapidly somebody with Alzheimer's disease is likely to lose cognitive function, researchers from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine reported in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. The authors explain that being able to predict cognitive decline could be useful for treatment targets, as well as providing loved ones and caregivers with vital data regarding what to expect and how to prepare.

Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works

noreply@blogger.com (Claire Ovaska) — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:05:00 +0000

The Alexander Street Press Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works is a searchable collection containing real transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions and first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and its treatment, as well as reference works to contextualise the primary material. Resources from the collection include:

APA referencing: "Where" element clarified

noreply@blogger.com (Claire Ovaska) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:43:00 +0000

The last generic element in an APA reference is where a reader should go to locate the reference you used.

Periodicals
For journals, newsletters, and magazines, the primary locator element is the volume number. It goes after the periodical’s title, in italics, and the article’s page range follows:

Elk, A. (1972a). My theory on brontosauruses. Journal of the All-England Summarize Proust Competition, 31, 12–27.

If the journal is one that restarts the page numbering at 1 for each issue, include the issue number in parentheses after the volume number. Note that if the issue number is used, it is in roman (i.e., not italic) type, as is the comma following it.

Elk, A. (1972b). The other theory on brontosauruses. Journal of the All-England Summarize Proust Competition, 31(4), 47–50.

Books, Reports, and So Forth
Give the name and location of the publisher (city and state or, outside the United States - city and country) for books, reports, brochures, and other nonperiodical publications.

Gumby, T. F. (1972). The brain specialist. Cambridge, England: Python.

Note that the name of the publisher is given in as brief a form as possible. Eliminate words such as Publishers, Co., and Inc., and use only the surname for publishing houses that are named after persons (e.g., Erlbaum, not Lawrence Erlbaum; Wiley, not John Wiley). The names of universities, associations, and so forth are given in full.

The “well-known city rule” is no longer in effect, so the state (or country, for non-U.S. publishers) is included for all publishers. However, there is one exception to this rule: If the publisher is a university whose name includes the name of the state, don’t repeat the state in the publisher location.

Clark, D. T., Schoomaker, P. J. How not to be seen. Tampa: University of Florida.

Electronic Sources
The digital object identifier (DOI) is the new gold standard for locating electronic publications. Through the magic of international concordats and computer programming, it will get you to the online version of the article every time, even if the publisher has changed Web addresses. Check out this DOI primer and handy flowchart for guidance on when to use DOI versus URL. You may also want to check out Paige's discussion of document URL versus homepage URL.

From the APA Style Blog by Jeff Hume-Pratuch

Counseling and Therapy in Video

noreply@blogger.com (Claire Ovaska) — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 01:39:00 +0000

The Alexander Street Press Counseling and Therapy in Video provides a large online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. Videos in the collection include:

Featured eBooks: Psychology

noreply@blogger.com (Claire Ovaska) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 03:56:00 +0000

In reading this book, therapists will discover the benefits to incorporating animal assisted therapy into their practice, how to design and implement animal assisted interventions, and the efficacy of animal assisted therapy with different disorders and patient populations. Coverage includes the use of AAT with children, families, and the elderly, in counseling and psychotherapy settings, and for treating a variety of specific disorders.

This is a comprehensive reference book on forensic mental health. It is concerned with both theory and practice, including issues and approaches to assessment, management and treatment. The book focuses on the key topics and issues underpinning the developing body of knowledge in forensic mental health and its place in contemporary society.

Most emotional maltreatment takes place within the family home, involves the primary care-giver and reflects ongoing patterns of damaging parent-child interaction rather than isolated incidents. The authors explore the available treatments, identifying which approaches work, who they work with and the limitations of each. Conclusions and recommendations based on the key findings are presented, including implications for practice and over-arching issues to be addressed.

Ethnographic Video Online @JCU Library

noreply@blogger.com (Claire Ovaska) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:39:00 +0000

The Alexander Street Press Ethnographic Video Online provides the largest, most comprehensive resource for the study of human culture and behavior. The collection covers every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more. Videos in the collection include:

Filmakers Library Online @JCU Library

noreply@blogger.com (Claire Ovaska) — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:46:00 +0000

The Alexander Street Press Filmakers Library Online collection provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide. Videos in the collection include: