Thursday 17 February 2011

New e-books available

ebooks@cambridge has added more titles in the zoology subject area to the collection. They are now available to all current staff and students through links in the online library catalogue: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/newton/

  • Dytham - Choosing and using statistics, a biologist's guide, Wiley, 2010
  • Shettleworth - Cognition, evolution and behavior, OUP, 2009
  • Moss - Ecology of fresh waters, Wiley, 2010
  • Houghton - Global warming (4th ed), CUP, 2009
  • Foster - Easy mathematics for biologists, Taylor & Francis, 1999
  • Krebs - Behavioural ecology, Wiley, 2009
A list of all the 1,800+ titles acquired so far can be found on the ebooks@cambridge website at http://www.sel.cam.ac.uk/ebooks@cambridge/collection.html.

You are also welcome to follow their blog http://www.sel.cam.ac.uk/ebooks/blog/, Facebook page (ebooks@cambridge) and/or Twitter feed (@ebookscambridge).


Monday 14 February 2011

Your chance to win a £25 Amazon voucher, or one of two £10 Amazon vouchers!

Calling all undergraduates enrolled on Zoology-taught courses!

Today you will have been invited to complete the Balfour Library Satisfaction Survey for Undergraduates, via CamTools.

Please take a few minutes to complete the survey, which will help inform future service delivery and development.

Even if you don't use this library please take part your feedback is still valuable to us. In addition, everyone who completes a survey will be able to enter into the prize draw for one of three prizes: one £25 Amazon voucher, and two £10 Amazon vouchers!

Thank you, we look forward to hearing what you have to say.

New acquisitions

New books:

The cell cycle: principles of control, by David O. Morgan. London: New Science Press; 2007. Balfour Library shelfmark: EC (294iii-iv)

Genome duplication, by Melvin DePamphilis and Stephen D. Bell. London: Garland Science; 2011. Balfour Library shelfmark: EM (84i-iv) (2 x Overnight Loan shelves, 1 x Large size shelves)

Principles of development, 4th ed., by Lewis Wolpert ... [et al.]. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2011. Balfour Library shelfmark: qEEB (2i-iii) (2 x Overnight Loan shelves)

World atlas of coral reefs, by Mark Spalding, Corinna Ravilous and Edmund P. Green. Berkeley, Ca.: University of California Press; 2001. Balfour Library shelfmark: qMM (15) (Overnight Loan shelves)

World atlas of mangroves, by Mark Spalding, Mami Kainuma and Lorna Collins. London: Earthscan; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: qFPT (1ii) (Large size shelves)

Book donations:

Work meets life: exploring the integrative study of work in living systems, edited by Robert Levin ... [et al.]. Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press; 2011. Balfour Library shelfmark: EAE (14)

World atlas of mangroves, by Mark Spalding, Mami Kainuma and Lorna Collins. London: Earthscan; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: qFPT (1i) (Overnight Loan shelves)

Cambridge University Press donations:

Macroecology: concepts and consequences. The 43rd Annual Symposium of the British Ecological Society held at the University of Birmingham 17-19 April 2002, edited by Tim Blackburn and Kevin J. Gaston. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2003. Balfour Library shelfmark: GG (271i-ii) (1 x Overnight Loan shelves)

New theses:

Specification and morphogenesis of Drosophila renal tubules, by Catherine Marie Scahill. Cambridge; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: Thesis (493) (Library Office)

Tuesday 1 February 2011

Cornell Lab of Ornithology resources

I recently received the Cornell Lab for Ornithology Annual Report, which can also be downloaded from their website at: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/

Of particular interest is the section on World-Class Resources for Enjoying Birds, where it mentions some great websites, databases, and other media relating to mainly American birds.
  • All About Birds is a 2010 Webby Award Winner for Best Lifestyle website, a guide to birds where you can browse birds by taxonomy, name, or shape. It includes videos and sounds.
  • The Birds of North America Online resource including 729 species (the Balfour Library has paid for a subscription to this for the University)
  • Birdshare, a Flickr group with 50,937 photos
  • Macaulay Library, a scientifically curated collection of >100,000 digitized sounds and >50,000 video clips
  • Neotropical birds, an online resource for life histories of Neotropical birds, with 4,100 interactive maps, 1,200 species profiles begun and 127 complete
  • YouTube Channel with 51 bird videos
  • Facebook has 13 Cornell projects
  • Nestcams has 15 nestcams
  • Welovebirds.org, new in 2011 with 2,900 members, 382 community blog posts
  • Answer to your questions - 80,000 phone and email inquiries are received by Lab staff annually
  • Birdseye app, for your iPhone, built for bird watching in North America - the world’s only mobile application that guides you to the birds!
  • Clements Checklist, free authoritative list of >9,000 bird species of the world
Find out more and link to all of these from the PDF of the Annual Report.

IT training offered by the University Computing Service

Lent Term programme courses of interest are as follows:
  • EndNote: intro into a reference management program
  • EndNote: customising output formats (styles)
  • Web skills for researchers: why not to Google
  • Web skills for researchers: Web of Knowledge
  • Zotero: intro into a reference management program
  • EndNote 'lite' (web): intro into a reference management program
The whole programme can be viewed at: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/training