New database – Birds of North America

The Library has now subscribed to the Birds of North America.  It contains information, recordings of bird song and calls, images and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, and more for thousands of North American bird species.

Go to: Birds of North America

New Trial – Global Market Information Database (GMID)

Trial available until 31st July 2008.

GMID is an award-winning online business information resource providing intelligence on industries, countries and consumers.  It provides access to:

• 4 million internationally comparable statistics, including demographic, economic, consumer lifestyle and more
• 17,000 full text market and country reports
• Market size data for 300+ consumer products
• Comment on emerging industry, country and consumer trends
• Thousands of sources providing further research information

Go to: Global Market Information Database trial

Tell us what you think of this database via the evalution form, or use the Comments link on this post.

Auchmuty Library closed from 5pm 10 July – AIC still open

Due to a network upgrade, the Auchmuty Library will close at 5:00pm on Thursday 10th July 2008.  It will re-open at the normal time on Friday 11th July.

The AIC will still be open.

Forget your Library PIN? Now you can reset it yourself!

Great news for the memory-challenged!  Now you can reset your Library PIN yourself without Library staff intervention.

If you forget your PIN, click on the Forgot your PIN? link on any Library login page, or find the link on the MyLibrary Login page.  After submitting your student or Library number you will receive an email with a link to a page that will allow you to reset your PIN.

Note: the link in the email is only active for 3 hours.  If you don’t get to check your email within that time you will need to submit another PIN Reset request.