9am – 5pm Wednesday June 6 and Thursday June 7

Ira Raymond Exhibition Room (level 3, Barr Smith South).

Lots of subjects covered and all items only $2 each.
No listings, just come along and see for yourselves.

For enquiries, please contact Margaret Hosking on 8313 3706.

By following links from the Library web site, Summon, or the Catalogue:

1. On campus users (including student lab PCs) will not be asked to authenticate (with a few exceptions where required by licence);

2. Remote users with a VPN connection will not be asked to authenticate;

3. All other remote users will be asked to authenticate, just once per session.

Tom Caunce

Thomas Caunce, PhD candidate in the School of History and Politics at the University of Adelaide under the supervision of Professor Carol Johnson, is the successful applicant for the 2012 Bill Cowan Barr Smith Library Fellow award.

Thomas’s research is concerned with the Australian Labor Party’s social democratic ideology and its relation to Keynesian economics, which he describes as an ambivalent history of ideological empowerment but perceived obsolescence. As well as extensive use of the general collections of the Library the research will make intensive use of the Special Collections holdings of Commonwealth ALP government speeches and policy documents, which are not accessible in any other South Australian public collection.

Thomas’s research has gained notice in his field with presentations of refereed papers at the 2010 and 2011 Australian Political Studies Association Conferences. He has been the recipient of a number of awards including a short term Summer Research Scholarship at the Australian Prime Ministers’ Centre, Museum of Australia, Canberra, in 2011.

In response to the award Thomas said, “It is truly humbling to have received such a generous scholarship from a family trust which has sustained such a strong commitment to financially stressed tertiary students. The Bill Cowan Fellowship will provide me with the opportunity to concentrate on my thesis research in an uninterrupted manner using the Barr Smith Library’s collections. For this I am immensely grateful”.

• A complete corporate history including acquisitions and changes in ownership structure
• Lists of subsidiaries, property holdings, and key personnel
• Up to 25 years of annual and quarterly financial data, including balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements, and financial ratios
• Up to 10 years of scanned, full-image, annual reports, along with full coverage of SEC filings
• Extensive information about the corporation’s current long term debt
• Links to recent news reports
• 400,000 annual reports as well as SEC and SEDAR filings

Data output can be customized and exported as files readable by Excel and other software.

Advanced search capabilities include searching by executive’s name, auditor, country code, NAICS or SIC industry code, and selected financial characteristics and ratios.

Trial Date:  19th April – 30th May 2012

URL:  http://www.MergentOnline.com

Remote Access:  Yes

Please let us know what you think, in the comments below.

Reserve is now self service and will be open the full range of library open hours.

DVDs and CDs are available in Reserve, no request needed!

IELTs kits are available for you to browse before borrowing.

AV materials have been integrated into the Holds shelf and the Hold shelf has moved into Reserve.

Microform scanners are also now in Reserve.

Please note that any items with a yellow R sticker are linked to a Reserve course list and these are available as a standard reserve three hour loan or overnight when appropriate.  All other items are loanable for the standard period for the material type, eg. DVDs, CDs and kits one week.

If you need help or have questions about Reserve, please ask Service Enquiries staff.

The Friends of the University of Adelaide Library invite you to an author
event with Ghil’ad Zuckermann on Thursday 17 May. 

Language revival is becoming increasingly relevant as people seek to recover their lost heritage. Linguists and revivalists worldwide have much to learn from Hebrew’s remarkable, hybridic modern-day rebirth, argues Professor Ghil’ad Zuckermann, Chair of Endangered Languages at the University of Adelaide.

Professor Zuckermann will explain the process of reviving a “Sleeping Beauty” language, such as Hebrew, the South Australian Aboriginal Kaurna, and Hawaiian, and the influences that come into play, resulting in a hybrid that combines the revivalists’ and documenters’ mother tongues and the target tongue.

Siobhan Owen, Celtic singer & harpist, will play before and after the talk.

Details:
Date: Thursday 17 May at 6 for 6:30pm.
Bookings: by Tuesday 15 May to Robina Weir (phone: 8313 4064)
Venue: Ira Raymond Exhibition Room, Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide
Gold coin admission, open to the public

Seating is limited.

Paul Wilkins
Deputy University Librarian
Barr Smith Library

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The winners were:

Eleni Biris	Victoria Chan
Natasha Guszich	Thi Ngoc Anh Nguyen
Bing Han

Congratulations to all and thanks to everyone who took a Hub & Library tour and entered the competition.

At other times, please make an appointment with Lucy Zuzolo – phone 8313 1060 or email lucy.zuzolo@adelaide.edu.au

This means that while users can have quiet brief discussion, prolonged and/or loud discussions that disturb other users’ ability to study are not.  Users who are disturbing others will be asked to quieten down or move out of the area.

Level 3 North is designated as a quiet collaborative area where quiet discussion is permitted

We recommend Hub Central as the place to go if you want get together for more animated discussions over a coffee or lunch.

 
In all Library areas mobile phones must be on silent for incoming calls or turned off. Quiet, brief phone conversations or text messaging is OK; otherwise users should use their phones in the Barr Smith stairwells or Hub Central.

Note that no area of the Barr Smith Library is designated as a silent area.

If you are being disturbed by other library users, please report this to a library staff member or  phone 8313 5759.

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