Contents

Rare Acquisition for Gordon Anderson Collection
Updating Your Information Skills
Balinese Cremation Ceremony Painting
Government Publications and Legislation Finder
Subject Search Service
EndNote @ UNE
What's New in EBL
What's New - EHPS
Earlier Issues
Your Contacts at Dixson Library

Rare Acquisition for Gordon Anderson Collection

Left: UNE musicologist, Jason Stoessel, and Arts Faculty Librarian, Meredith Duncan with Codex.

Right: An illuminated page from the Squarcialupi Codex

Dixson Library celebrated the addition of a rare and costly facsimile illuminated edition of the Squarcialupi Codex to the Gordon Anderson Music Collection with a public occasion on November 14th. Jason Stoessel, UNE doctoral scholar and musicologist specialising in the secular polyphony of the fourteenth century, gave a presentation on the Codex that transported an audience of musicologists and bibliophiles back to the world of medieval music composition and illumination.

Almost six hundred years ago, copyists at the monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Florence set about collecting the secular, polyphonic works of Italian composers into one lavish manuscript, now known as the Squarcialupi Codex. Today, it survives as Mediceo Palatino Ms. 87 in theLaurentian Library of Florence. This magnificent volume marks a high point in Florentinebook art and Italian courtly poetry. Dixson's lavish facsimile was published in Florence by Giunti-Barbera and includes scores, gorgeously coloured illustrations, and commentaries in a boxed set.

The acquisition was made possible through the Gordon Anderson memorial fund, established by the late Mrs Laurel Anderson to nourish the special collection built upon her husband's personal library. Professor Gordon Athol Anderson held a Personal Chair in Music at UNE from 1977 until his death in 1981, and his collection is still sought out by Australian and international researchers.

Updating Your Information Skills

Information is changing rapidly and constantly. Everybody is very busy and it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with the new technologies. UNE Libraries can help you deal with this overload of information. Come to a class especially designed to introduce you to a particular journal index or learn how to do advanced searching using various tools.

What's on offer in 2003? Hands-on training where you can practise as you learn. There are two main programmes of interest to academic staff and researchers:

There are six modules in this programme, including Introduction to Information Retrieval at UNE (45 minutes), Journal Indexes - using them to their fullest capacity (1.5 hours), Citation Indexes - tracking academic debate (1 hour), Current Awareness Services (1 hour), Internet Skills for Researchers (1 hour) and Personal Reference Databases - using EndNote (3 hours). You can choose to do as many of these modules as you wish. More details, timetables and booking forms are at http://www.une.edu.au/library/infolit/libraryclasses.htm#advanced.

1. The quick way to access all of these resources is to go to the UNE Libraries page at http://www.une.edu.au/library and click on eSKILLS UNE

2. Specific Indexes.

   Electronic journal indexes are increasingly important tools for everyone at universities. It can be difficult to keep up with the tricks to use with each new product, so throughout the year UNE Libraries are offering classes on specific indexes. Most of them provide full-text articles, not just citations and abstracts. The indexes include AusStats (Australian Bureau of Statistics), BioOne (biology, ecology, environment), Emerald Fulltext (marketing, management, training, organisations), LexisNexis All News (Australian and international newspapers, business information), LexisNexis Legal, Proquest 5000 (multidisciplinary), PsycARTICLES, PubMed (health, biology), Web of Knowledge (Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and

   Humanities Citation Index) and Wiley InterScience (the sciences, business). For more details, timetables and booking forms, go to http://www.une.edu.au/library/infolit/libraryclasses.htm#specificindexes.

If you can't make it to the Advanced Skills for Researchers classes, try the online alternative - eSKILLS Plus at http://www.une.edu.au/library/eskillsplus/index.htm. The topics offered so far include advanced searching of the catalogue, advanced searching of the journal indexes, alert services for current awareness, sources of literature, research on the internet and theses.

Balinese Cremation Ceremony

This large Balinese Batuan style painting (renowned for its distinctive black and white style) is by an artist named GST Sunarra. The main subject of the painting itself depicts a Balinese cremation ceremony although, as in so many Balinese Batuan style paintings, there are a multitude of additional aspects of traditional Balinese life depicted. The cremation ceremony is an important central ritual in the Hindu faith, which is widely practiced in Bali. Nearly three hundred figures are included in the large traditionally framed painting which is approximately 1.85 metres by 1.2 metres in size.

The painting was purchased through the Faculty of Arts, by Greg Horsley and involved donations from a number of people to enable the purchase. It was formally unveiled in Dixson Library on 28 November 2002, and will in due course be removed for valuation, cleaning, conservation and to have a glass frame fitted.

The Cremation Ceremony painting is on view on the First Floor of the Dixson Library next to the Current Display

Government Publications and Legislation Finder

The library has developed a website that provides information on government publications held by The University of New England's Libraries, as well as Internet sites where government publications are available.

Click on http://www.une.edu.au/library/elecres/govdoc.htm ; or go to the UNE Library's electronic resources page and, under the Government Publications heading on the side bar, click on Index.

The site is set up by jurisdiction, including Australian federal and state legislatures and government departments, as well as New Zealand, Great Britain, United States, Canada, the United Nations and other subsidiary or related bodies and international organisations. It also contains a glossary of terms to help the uninitiated.

Each jurisdiction features a majority of these headings : acts/reprinted acts, bills/explanatory memoranda, budget papers, bylaws, census information, the constitution, parliamentary debates, electoral rolls, government directories, government gazettes, other government publications, journals, journals of the senate, minutes of proceedings, notice papers, orders, ordinances, parliamentary papers, regulations, rules, statutes annotations, statutory rules, treaties, and votes and proceedings. Some entries will have a description of our library holdings, others may have no holdings but will have an Internet link (most will have both).

If there is an active link for Internet resources, this will take you to the site on which the legislation lives and you will need to be aware of the particular copyright restrictions for that site. For example, when you look at the Australian federal acts you have two choices: one will take you to Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) and the other to SCALEplus. Both have different restrictions on how much can be copied.

This page has come about due to the free deposit of legislation to libraries by governments being reduced due to the cost, and now the availability of these resources on the Internet. Any questions or comments on the page may be directed to Tracy Cooper (ext. 2030), or email tcooper@pobox.une.edu.au

Subject Search Service

UNE Libraries will locate information for external students who cannot independently find enough to complete an assignment or research task. Reference librarians perform the subject searches, making use of the available range of electronic and print resources.

This service is very popular with those who use it. A sample of comments received follows.

"I think the facility you provide for external students at your library is fantastic."

"Service was very good, although I didn't get what I wanted, which was recent articles by this particular author. I suspect that the author died in the early 1990's, that's why there's nothing there!"

"Finally worked out how to access full version of journal articles from what you sent me.....thank you."

In 2002, 1,266 search requests were received from students studying over 500 different units. The diversity of topics being requested makes this service a staff intensive one. Because of equity considerations we believe it is a vital service, but we continually seek to encourage students to search for themselves where it is possible for them to do so.

As we receive a lot of our requests via email, in August 2002 we began using email stationery designed to give students more information on what we were doing for them and how they might locate information online for themselves. Citations from full text databases were emailed with database specific instructions on locating articles online in full text. Students requesting via email were also sent an email stating when we had finished their search and giving a summary of what we had done with our suggestions for additional databases they might search. We also informed them about the implementation of EZproxy to facilitate their access to online material. We have had very positive feedback suggesting that this approach is helpful in getting students online themselves and opening up extensive desktop resources to them.

EndNote @ UNE

2002 witnessed the introduction of EndNote as a fully supported software package. The Information Technology Division negotiated a 60% reduction in the price of EndNote and this has made it affordable for staff and post-graduate students. To ensure that those who purchased EndNote got the most out of this software package, UNE Libraries offered introductory tutorials in the use of EndNote. The 3-hour tutorial covers the basic skills required to start using EndNote and at the end of the tutorial participants are able to:

Since May of 2002, UNE Libraries has offered 15 introductory EndNote sessions, with 141 people attending. In the second half of 2003 it is hoped that, as well as these introductory tutorials, UNE Libraries will be able provide sessions that will offer advanced instruction . Details of the 2003 programme are available at: http://www.une.edu.au/library/infolit/libraryclasses.htm#advancedtimetable

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Lisa Russell .................... Editorial Assistant and design
Tracy Cooper ................. Web version
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