Bioscience blog

The new look Library online catalogue was launched on 15 April. This includes details of the book and serial holdings, artworks and ZSL’s archives as well as including links to relevant online resources. Other resources can be accessed via the sidebar including links to open access journals, links to useful websites, lists of studbooks and lists of guides and publications about zoos http://library.zsl.org/

 A special collection of books on the subject of  climate change have been moved into the Reading Room so that they are more easily accessible to all.

It is 160 years since the opening of the Fish House at ZSL London Zoo, the first ever public aquarium it opened in May 1863. There is a display on the Reading Room Gallery and a feature on the ZSL website http://www.zsl.org/about-us/library/artefact-of-the-month-may-2013-160-years-since-the-opening-of-the-fish-house-at-zsl-london-zoo-the-first-public-aquarium,172,PS.html

 We are holding a special introductory tour for Student Fellows on Tuesday 11 June at 4pm – please contact ZSL Library to book a place tel 020 7449 6293 or email Library@zsl.org details can be found at http://www.zsl.org/membership/fellowship/library-tours-for-fellows,1540,AR.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ZSL+-+London+Zoo&utm_campaign=2385189_eNews+April+2013+-+Fellows&utm_content=library&dm_i=7U7,1F4F9,1S58J1,4TO3B,1 Later that evening at 6.30pm there is a free ZSL Science and conservation event in the adjacent building on the theme `Invasive species: one of the four horseman of the apocalypse’.

A new selection of e-books have been added to our colection, they include the following

Essential medical statistics Betty R. Kirkwood, Jonathan A.C. Sterne. -  2nd ed.

Curiosity : how science became interested in everything / Philip Ball.

Physiology at a glance Jeremy P.T. Ward, Roger W.A. Linden. -  3rd ed.

The renal system at a glance C.A. O’Callaghan. -  3rd ed.

Embryology at a glance. S. Webster.

The cardiovascular system at a glance / Philip I. Aaronson, Jeremy P.T. Ward, Michelle J. Connelly. -  4th ed.

The major transitions in evolution. John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry.

Singularities Landmarks on the Pathways of Life / Christian de Duve.

Oxygen the molecule that made the world / Nick Lane.

Essential developmental biology Jonathan M.W. Slack. -  3rd ed.

An introduction to cardiovascular physiology / J. Rodney Levick. -  5th ed.

The Cruciform library is moving!

In 2013 the Cruciform Library, Cluster and adjacent Seminar Rooms will be refurbished to create a welcoming and vibrant space at the heart of Gower Street. During the building works, from June 2013, UCL Library Services will re-locate the Cruciform Library in the Science Library (DMS Watson building).

The books and journals from the Cruciform will be available in the current Medical Sciences periodicals room, on the second floor of the Science Library. The Medical Sciences journals will temporarily move to store, and will be available through Store Requests. We apologise in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

The Cruciform Hub will open in Spring 2014, with fantastic teaching and learning spaces including your library and a new computer cluster.

■A modern, attractive Library
■Redesigned teaching areas
■Innovative study spaces
■Blending heritage with cutting-edge design

A new website has been set up to keep everyone up to date with developments in the project, please see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/cruciform-hub/

Thanks,

Lisa

UCL Special Collections is celebrating the launch of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics, the pilot phase of the Wellcome Digital Library project headed by the Wellcome Trust. This online resource for the history of genetics research includes more than 80,000 digital images from UCL, as well as digitised archives and books from the Wellcome Library and four other partner institutions. Launched on Monday 4th March 2013, it allows free, online access to important material created by the pioneers of modern genetics and includes the papers of twenty scientists and organisations. Additional features include an interactive timeline which uses selected images from the archives to illustrate key events in the history of genetics from Darwin to the present day.
UCL has contributed the digitised papers of J B S Haldane (1892-1964) and Lionel Sharples Penrose (1898-1972) who both spent a large proportion of their careers at UCL. With 38,000 images, the Haldane collection is the second largest of those contributed by external partners to Codebreakers. The next stage of the project at UCL is to digitise the archive of Sir Francis Galton FRS (1822-1911). Galton was a Victorian polymath who devoted his life to the study of diverse fields, including the physical and mental characteristics in man and animals, the influence of heredity, fingerprints, photography and personal identification, and meteorology. He was preoccupied with counting and measuring, and collected a huge amount of statistical data to support his research.

Although never a UCL professor, Galton worked closely with Egyptologist Flinders Petrie, and established the Eugenics Laboratory at UCL in 1907 with his friend Karl Pearson as its first director. On his death in 1911 Galton left UCL £45,000 to found the Galton Chair of Eugenics with Pearson as its first holder. In 1963 the Chair was renamed the Galton Chair of Human Genetics and the laboratory was renamed The Galton Laboratory of the Department of Human Genetics & Biometry thanks to the efforts of Lionel Penrose. Both were subsumed into the Department of Biology in 1996.

The Galton archive has already been catalogued and includes working papers, family history records and correspondence. This diverse range of material is estimated at around 100,000 images in total, which will make UCL the biggest external contributor to the Codebreakers project.

Alphonse Bertillon was a Parisian police clerk who devised a system for recording information that could be used to identify people in police custody. This involved taking standardised photographs of the person’s face in full and in profile as well as recording various measurements and distinguishing features. These were all noted on cards known as the “Bertillon System Cards”. This card was made for Galton during his visit to Bertillon’s laboratory in 1893.

Galton is known for his work to refine the technique of composite photography – where many photographs of individuals were superimposed onto the same photographic plate to produce a composite of several faces blended together. The aim of this was to create an image of a ‘type’ of face; the item above shows criminal types made from individual portraits of inmates at Millbank Prison.

Galton is credited with pioneering the scientific methodology for using fingerprints for forensic purposes, collecting and classifying around 8,000 samples of fingerprints.

Have you deposited anything in UCL Discovery lately? If so why or why not?

Our Open Access team here at UCL are keen to talk to Biosciences  academics who are interested in Open Access (OA), who have deposited material in UCL Discovery or who have strong views on OA publishing in general.

For a brief chat please contact the team below as they would love to talk to you!

Erica McLaren – UCL Discovery Manager
e.mclaren@ucl.ac.uk

UCL Discovery e-mail: discovery@ucl.ac.uk

Website: discovery@ucl.ac.uk

http://www.zsl.org/about-us/library/

 Go have a look!

Zoological Society of London

Wolfson Library 

Newly Acquired Books February 2013

Library opening hours: 9.30am–5.30pm, Monday-Friday (excluding bank holidays) 

To celebrate the forthcoming opening of the new Tiger Territory, the Library currently has on display historical material relating to big cat enclosures at ZSL London Zoo.

Also, see our Artefact of the month at http://bit.ly/artefact-of-the-month featuring the biogeographical books of Alfred Russel Wallace. 

Zoological gardens and menageries

Old London Zoo : a selection of early postcard scenes and views to recall the days when Regent’s Park Zoo was, for most people, simply THE ZOO : postcards confirming or revealing aspects of zoo history and animal management / selected by Nick Thompson from his own collection for the Bartlett Society A.G.M., held on 25th October, 1997. – [S.l.] : the author, 1997 27AJ/ED

Presented by Sarah-Joy Maddeaux, Bristol Zoo Gardens, February 2013.

Conservation

Wildlife crime scorecard [electronic resource] : assessing compliance with and enforcement of CITES commitments for tigers, rhinos and elephants. – [Gland, Switzerland : WWF, 2012]

Freely available via the WWF website (3.02 MB)  http://bit.ly/V4OV0a

To the World Heritage Committee and state parties [electronic resource] : Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo : world heritage property in danger. – [Gland, Switzerland : WWF, 2012]

Freely available via the WWF website (374.25 KB) http://bit.ly/WoEm4C

Conservation of wildlife populations : demography, genetics, and management / L. Scott Mills. – 2nd ed. – Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

Conservation and the genetics of populations / Fred W. Allendorf, Gordon Luikart, Sally N. Aitken ; with illustrations by Agostinho Antunes. – 2nd ed. – Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 

Diseases

The potential ecology of West Nile virus in the Galápagos Islands / Gillian Eastwood. – Thesis (Ph.D.)–Institute of Zoology ; University of Leeds, 2012

Climate change

Climate change [electronic resource] : biodiversity and people on the front line : conference report / Watts, O. … [et al.] (editors). – [United Kingdom] : RSPB, 2012

Freely available via the WWF website (1.96 MB)  http://bit.ly/YxHzhG

Habitats and faunas

The last rain forests / general editor, Mark Collins ; introduced by David Attenborough. – London : Mitchell Beazley, 1990 Presented by Sandi Bain, 7th January 2013.

Australian tropical rainforests : science, values, meaning / editors, L. J. Webb and J. Kikkawa. – East Melbourne, Vic. : CSIRO, 1990 Presented by Sandi Bain, 7th January 2013.

Invertebrates

Arthropod brains : evolution, functional elegance, and historical significance / Nicholas James Strausfeld. – Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012

Grasshopper country : the abundant orthopterod insects of Australia / D. C. F. Rentz. – Sydney : University of New South Wales Press, 1996 Presented by Sandi Bain, 7th January 2013. 

Mosquito / Richard Jones. – London : Reaktion Books, 2012

Fish

Fish passage at Culverts : a review, with possible solutions for New Zealand indigenous species / Jacques Boubée … [et al.]. – Wellington, N.Z. : Department of Conservation, 1999

Reptiles and amphibians

Encyclopedia of snakes / Peter Brazaitis and Myrna E. Watanabe. – New York : Friedman Group, 1994. Presented by Sandi Bain, 7th January 2013.

Birds

British birdsong [sound recording] : Kate Humble’s 100 favourites. – [S.l.] : The Telegraph, [2012] 1 compact disc Presented by Dr M. Sobell, January 2013

Photographing Australia’s birds / Peter Slater, Raoul Slater. – Fortitude Valley, Qld. : Steve Parish, 1995 Presented by Sandi Bain, 7th January 2013.

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Black-faced Spoonbill and Coastal Wetlands Conservation / Organizers, Endemic Species Research Institute, COA, Taijiang National Park, Urban and Rural Development Branch, Construction and Planning Agency. – Qigu, Taiwan : Qigu Research Center, 2011 

Recent advances in the study of raptor diseases : proceedings of the International Symposium on Diseases of Birds of Prey, 1st-3rd July 1980, London / edited by J.E. Cooper and A.G. Greenwood. – Keighley : Chiron Publications, 1981 Library copy presented by Professor John E. Cooper, 12th February 2013. 

The dodo and the solitaire : a natural history / Jolyon C. Parish. – Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013 

Drawn from paradise : the discovery, art and natural history of the birds of paradise / David Attenborough and Errol Fuller. – London : Collins, 2012 

Bird-keeping : a practical guide for the management of singing and cage birds / by C. E. Dyson. – London : Frederick Warne, 1889 Presented by Nigel Douglas on behalf of his late uncle Arthur Douglas, 11th February 2013.       

Chamber and cage birds : their management, habits, diseases, breeding, and the methods of taking them / translated from the last German edition of Dr. Bechstein’s Chamber Birds by W. E. Shuckard ; a new edition, revised and partly re-written … by Geo. J. Barnesby. – London : Robert Hardwicke, 1871

Presented by Nigel Douglas on behalf of his late uncle Arthur Douglas, 11th February 2013.

Favourite foreign birds for cages and aviaries / by W. T. Greene. – new and rev. ed. – London : L. Upcott Gill, [18--?] Presented by Nigel Douglas on behalf of his late uncle, Arthur Douglas, 11th February 2013.

Cages, aviaries and bird-room requisites / by John Robson. – London : Feathered World, [19--?] Presented by Nigel Douglas on behalf of his late uncle, Arthur Douglas, 11th February 2013.

New-coloured canaries : yellow-ground, white-ground, orange-ground and dilute colour varieties / by A. K. Gill. – London : Cage Birds, [19--?]Presented by Nigel Douglas on behalf of his late uncle, Arthur Douglas, 11th February 2013.

Mammals

What mammal is that? / by Ronald Strahan with the magnificent illustrations of Neville W. Cayley and additional illustrations of Peter Schouten. – Sydney : Cornstalk, 1991 Presented by Sandi Bain, 7 January 2013

Kangaroo / John Simons. – London : Reaktion Books, 2013

Protecting the harbour porpoise in UK seas [electronic resource] : identifying a network of draft SACs for the harbour porpoise in the UK / A report to WWF UK by P. G. H. Evans and J. S. Prior. – [S.l.] : WWF, 2012

Freely available via the WWF website (3.01 MB) http://bit.ly/Yvzs7p

Biology and conservation of martens, sables, and fishers : a new synthesis / edited by Keith B. Aubry … [et al.]. – Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2012 

Immunity, life history and conservation in the Galapagos sea lion / Patrick Michael Brock. – Thesis (Ph.D.)–University of Leeds, Faculty of Biological Sciences, 2012

 Squirrels of the world / Richard W. Thorington … [et al.]. – Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012

The library has recently subscribed to some new e-books for Biosciences. Follow the links on Explore for more information. New e-books include:

Principles of renal physiology / Christopher J. Lote.  Christopher J. LoteNew York ; London : Springer 5th ed.. c2012 Christopher J. Lote New York ; London : Springer 5th ed.. c2012

Development of the nervous system / Dan H. Sanes, Thomas A. Reh, William A. Harris.  Amsterdam ; Academic, London 3rd ed.. c2012

Neuroanatomy and neuroscience at a glance / Roger A. Barker, Francesca Cicchetti ; and neuropharmacology by Michael J. Neal.  Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell 4th ed.. 2012.

Medical microbiology and infection at a glance / Stephen H. Gillespie, Kathleen B. Bamford.  S. H. Gillespie Kathleen B Bamford Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell 4th ed.. 2012.

Neurobiology of mental illness / edited by Dennis S. Charney, Eric J. Nestler ; section editors, Eric J. Nestler … [et al.]. Dennis S Charney; Eric J Nestler (Eric Jonathan), 1954- Oxford : Oxford University Press 3rd ed.. c2009

Enjoy!

Introducing a new free resource from Macmillan Cancer Support. They have produced a set of 15 ‘Rich Pictures’ which summarise the numbers, needs and experiences of people affected by cancer. Each Rich Picture document summarises cancer data and evidence and brings it to life with real quotes and case studies as well as looking at media perceptions.
They will be useful for students of medicine, nursing, social work, health management and others.
There are 11 Rich Pictures by cancer type:
• Breast cancer
• Prostate cancer
• Colorectal cancer
• Malignant melanoma
• Bladder cancer
• Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
• Cancer of the uterus
• Head and neck cancer
• Lung cancer
• Cervical cancer
• Rarer cancers
There are also Rich Pictures on:
• Older people with cancer
• People of working age living with cancer
• Carers of people with cancer
• People at the end of life
They are available as pdfs and can be freely downloaded from Macmillan’s website for inclusion in library catalogues, LMSs or VLEs:
http://www.macmillan.org.uk/richpictures

As term gets into full swing I just thought I would highlight our online reading lists, available from Library Services. We can set up any lists online, and I am happy for both students and staff to let me know if there is a list which you would like to be made available.

The lists available for Biosciences include http://readinglists.ucl.ac.uk/divisions/biosc_lif.html

Likewise if there are any new texts, or not enough copies of existing ones, please let me know!

Lisa