Friday July 11, 2008
Good Reading Online
Mosman Library has recently acquired access to this unique and exciting new Australian resource that contains a wide variety of interesting information on everything about books; including reviews, author profiles and stories, bookshops, short stories, book trivia and much more.
The online edition is an exact digital copy of the print edition but has the added benefits of links to more information, interesting websites and email addresses. You will also be able to browse and keyword search the current issue and growing library of back issues.
Good Reading is available in the library or at home via our website.
Thursday May 1, 2008
ARROW Discovery Service
ARROW is an exciting new research tool provided by the National Library of Australia to provide instant access to scholarly resources for students, academics and members of the public.
This service provides access to the research outputs of Australian universities: many are unpublished theses, preprints or post prints, as well as published journal articles, images, working papers and technical reports.
The majority of items discoverable through the Service are available online at home, and also contain statistics, including tables of the most popular authors and institutions.
It currently contains more than 137,000 records harvested from 23 university repositories and 12 other research collections, including the Australasian Digital Theses program, and several e-journals.
As an example of how it works, a search on “climate change” returns a relevance-ranked result set of 722 records from 21 different university repositories, plus the Australasian Digital Theses Program and an e-journal from UTS.
These results can then be refined to zero in on specific subjects such as climatology resources, or to those dealing with conservation and biodiversity.
Wednesday March 26, 2008
Got a legal problem?
The State Library of NSW has a great site that answers everyday questions about the law in NSW.
Is that broken down fence between you and your neighbour’s property your responsibility? Can anything be done about those barking dogs?
Find Legal Answers can help.
Easy to read, this site has been designed as a support to the LIAC (Legal Information Access Centre) collection available at Mosman Library.
This specialised collection is a service provided by The State Library of NSW to offer access to information about the law for all members of the NSW community.
Tuesday November 6, 2007
Man shortage in Mosman?
A new study of 25-34 year old singles by statistician Bernard Salt based on the 2006 census figures showed Mosman had more available women than men, with just 85 blokes for every 100 single sheilas.
- Sydney Morning Herald, 21 October 2007
How else has your community changed over the past 5 years?
The Mosman Community Profile has been updated with results from the 2006 Census.
The Community Profile is an excellent resource for the business community, students, researchers and the community in general.
It enables detailed analysis of the changes to the Mosman community over a 15 year period, as it presents statistics from the 2006, 2001, 1996 and 1991 censuses in table and graph format.
The Profile shows that there have been no significant changes to the composition of the Mosman community over the past five years.
The population has increased by 2.9% to 26,236.
20.5% of the population is aged between 0 and 17, and 21.0% is aged 60 years and over. The largest changes in age structure were in the age groups 60 to 69 (+645) and 85 and over (+121 persons).
View the Mosman Community Profile.
Friday October 26, 2007
Visualising development
Governments and international agencies hold a lot of data – like population, life expectancy, income. But getting to it is hard work, and interpreting it can be even harder.
Gapminder gives you tools to explore the changing world from your own computer. Moving graphics show developments across selected countries by the indicators you choose.
Gapminder wants to make data more accessible and easier to use for instant visual analysis… The idea is that all people, independently of their political agenda, should get free access to already existing statistics about global development to easily improve their understanding about the complex society.
Hans Rosling, one of the founders of Gapminder, gives a practical demonstration in this lecture:
Visit gapminder.org to run your own analyses.