Wednesday 26 May 2010

New books and theses acquisitions

New books:

Butterflies of Tanzania, by Jan Kielland. Melbourne, Vic.: Hill House; 1990. Balfour Library shelf mark: qQNB (9) (Quarto, large size book shelves)

Carcasson's African butterflies: an annotated catalogue of the Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea of the Afrotropical region, editors P. R. Ackery, C. R. Smith and R. I. Vane-Wright. East Melbourne, Vic.: CSIRO; 1995. Balfour Library shelf mark: qQNB (7) (Quarto, large-size book shelves)

Mothers and others: the evolutionary origins of mutual understanding, by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; 2009. Balfour Library shelf mark: GFU (337)

Pennington's butterflies of Southern Africa, 2nd ed., edited by E. L. L. Pringle, G. A. Henning and J. B. Ball. Cape Town: Struik Winchester; 2004. Balfour Library shelf mark: qQNB (8b) (Quarto, large size shelves)

Translational control in biology and medicine, 3rd ed., edited by Michael B. Mathews, Nahum Sonenberg, John W. B. Hershey. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press; 2007. Balfour Library shelf mark: EM (83c)

Theses:

A genetic analysis of cooperative breeding in the banded mongoose Mungos mungo, by Hazel J. Nichols. Cambridge; 2010. Balfour Library shelf mark: Thesis (477) (Library Office)

Cdc20 and its regulation during mitosis, by Mona Yekezare. Cambridge; 2009. Balfour Library shelf mark: Thesis (474) (Library Office)

Individual variation in cooperative behaviour in meerkats, by Sinead English. Cambridge; 2009. Balfour Library shelf mark: Thesis (476) (Library Office)

Offspring care and communication in the banded mongoose, by Bonnie Metherell. Cambridge; 2009. Balfour Library shelf mark: Thesis (475) (Balfour Library Office)

Book donations:

East African bat atlas
, by Robert Kityo ... [et al.]. [Kampala]: Makerere University; University of Dar es Salaam; 2009. Balfour Library shelf mark: YV (14)

International zoo yearbook: volume 44, managing editor Fiona A. Fisken. London: Zoological Society of London; 2010. Balfour Library shelf mark: D.11 (54)

Monday 24 May 2010

Unusual library visitor

Jane spotted this Lime Hawkmoth in the library today!

It was clinging on to the corner of the table that the card catalogue stands on - maybe he was looking for a book on his friends?

It likes urban lime trees apparently.

We released him back into the wild (well, as wild as Downing Street gets!). Thanks to Neal Maskell for identifying it for us.

Tuesday 18 May 2010

Are you involved in biomedical research?

If so, please help the British Library understand how you access and manage information by completing their survey.

To thank you for your feedback, four lucky respondents will win a £25 voucher to spend at the British Library Online Shop.

The British Library's has a world-leading collection of scientific, technical and medical (STM) information for researchers. See their Science pages to help you find the information you need and discover the range of services and activities that they provide, at: http://www.bl.uk/science There is a link to the survey from there too.

CamLib, a new mobile interface for Cambridge Libraries

Cambridge University Library would like to announce the Beta launch of CamLib, a new mobile interface for Cambridge Libraries.

The interface itself can be found at:
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/mob/camlib.cgi

Information can be found at: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/toolbox/camlib.html

We have also added it as an option on the Newton home page (last item on list) at: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/newton/

It has been tested for iPhone, iPod Touch and Android mobile devices (apparently it's also working on Opera Mini browser on Blackberry). You can also try it out on a normal computer - you just have to imagine everything being squashed together on a much smaller screen!

CamLib replicates the functionality of the Cambridge Libraries Widget with some new mobile-specific functionality - outlined in this blog post:

It's still a work in progress, so any feedback or suggestions (particularly bug reports) would be very welcome to Huw Jones at hej23@cam.ac.uk.

Thursday 6 May 2010

Balfour Library Satisfaction Survey for non-members of the Department of Zoology

Do you use the Balfour Library in the Department of Zoology, but you're not a member of the Department?

If so, please help us improve the library service further by taking a few minutes to complete this short survey. The results will be used to inform future service delivery and development.

N.B. Undergraduates should NOT complete the survey, as they have been surveyed already.

You may access the survey at:
https://camtools.cam.ac.uk/direct/eval-assigngroup/3545

The closing date to give your feedback is 17th May.