Wednesday 6 June 2012

Balfour Library Conservation Project - article published in volunteer newsletter - now available to read online

Last week I blogged about the article I wrote for NADFAS about our wonderful team of Heritage Volunteers that has been cleaning our rare books since July 2011. 
The NADFAS Review Volunteers Supplement was published on 25th May 2012 and I have posted my article on our special collections website at: http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/library/special.html#clean
It is also now available to read online in the NADFAS Review e-zine Volunteering Supplement Summer 2012 at: http://view.digipage.net/?id=nadfasvolunteerssummer2012
 
Find out more about NADFAS here: http://www.nadfas.org.uk/

Enjoy!

Friday 1 June 2012

New acquisitions


New books purchased

Animal eyes, 2nd ed., by Michael F. Land and Dan-Eric Nilsson. Oxford University Press; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: GFS (38bi-ii). (2 x Overnight Loan shelves).

Bird sense: what it's like to be a bird, by Tim Birkhead. London: Bloomsbury; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: K.7 (42).

Ecological and environmental physiology of insects, by Jon F. Harrison, H. Arthur Woods and Stephen P. Roberts. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: Q.5 (95i-iii). (2 x Overnight Loan shelves, 1 x Open shelves).

Ecological speciation, by Patrick Nosil. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: EO (335).

How vertebrates left the water, by Michael Laurin. Berkeley, CA: University of California; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: U.12 (5).

Invasive and introduced plants and animals: human perceptions, attitudes and approaches to management, edited by Ian D. Rotherham and Robert A. Lambert. London: Earthscan; 2011. Balfour Library shelfmark: GGW (219).

Statistical tables, 4th ed., by F. James Rohlf and Robert R. Sokal. New York, NY: W. H. Freeman and Company; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: EBB (21div) (Overnight Loan shelves).

Trophic cascades: predators, prey, and the changing dynamics of nature, edited by John Terborgh and James A. Estes. Washington, D.C.: Island Press; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: GGP (80ii-iii) (2 x Overnight Loan shelves).

Book donations

Aves da grande Belem: municipios de Belem e Ananindeua, Para, 2nd ed., by Fernando C. Novaes and Maria de Fatima Cunha Lima. Belem: Museu Paranese Emilio: 2009. Balfour Library shelfmark: qKZ.8 (10b).

A compendium of the biographical literature on deceased entomologists, by Pamela Gilbert. Balfour Library shelfmark: D.2 (70).

New theses

Responses of biodiversity to agricultural intensification: a study in the upper Gangetic Plain, India, by Malvika Onial. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: Thesis (514). (Library Office).