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Archive for April, 2008

PressDisplay - a recently added newspaper database

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

PressDisplay accesses over 600 newspapers in original format, layout and pagination from 68 countries in 38 languages.

Some features at a glance:

Advanced Search is available on all titles. Advanced Search allows readers to customize and broaden their search. Readers may customize their search by:

* Selecting multiple publications
* Selecting publication collections by country
* Selecting publication collections by language
* Selecting a customized date range
* Selecting a specific author
* Selecting results be displayed either from a headline or from an entire article

SmartNavigation is available on most major titles and is marked with the Smart logo on the front page thumbnail and in the title selection menu. SmartNavigation allows advanced digital features such as:

* Article Text View: Easy copy and paste
* Article Jumps / Linking
* Table of Contents
* Article Printing
* Language Translation: Ten major foreign languages available
* Sound Integration
* Article & Bookmark sharing
* Article Rank
* Blogging
* RSS feeds

You can access PressDisplay from http://library.uq.edu.au/record=e1000065

Informit TV News available now via Firefox

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Llibrary Technology Services have just made a new application available to install on staff workstations.

This new plugin will allow staff to view Windows Media Player video content on websites and databases such as Informit TV News using the Firefox browser.

To install the plugin go to:

1. Start Menu -> Settings ->Control Panel
2. Open the Add or Remove Programs control panel
3. Select Add New Programs
4. Hi-light FireFox Windows Media Player Plugin and click on add
5. The installer will start (it may open in the background, just click on the icon in the task bar)
6. Follow the instructions in the wizard until it completes.
7. Test the install by looking at some articles in the Informit TV News database (available from http://library.uq.edu.au/record=e1001735)

If you experience any problems, please contact LTS on 63600 or email ithelp@library.uq.edu.au

Lunchtime movies at the library

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Come and enjoy free movies coming from all around the world at the Social Sciences and Humanities Library!

When: between 14 April 2008 and 19 May 2008, at 1.00pm

Where: Social Sciences and Humanities Library, viewing room 3

Check the full list of movies shown at:
http://www.library.uq.edu.au/hotnews/index.phtml?id=515

Recent titles in the library (Business Organisation and Communication, 18 April 2008)

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Risk management guide for small business / Department of State and Regional Development.

Quantitative methods for business and management / Frank Dewhurst.

Business organisation and management for Queensland / Aliisa Mylonas, Jill Harvey, Jacky Hodges.

Conflict resolution strategies [videorecording] / produced by Lexicon Media.

Flexible work solutions : a guide to preparing, implementing and sustaining flexible work arrangements for employees and managers / Vilma Faoro.

Managing projects, managing people / author, David Parker Michael Craig.

Work a little less, live a little more / Mark McKeon.

America at work : choices and challenges / edited by Edward E. Lawler and James O’Toole.

Superannuation and retirement income planning / Diana Beal.

Lessons from pension reform in the Americas [electronic resource] / edited by Stephen J. Kay and Tapen Sinha.

Organisations and management in social work / Mark Hughes and Michael Wearing.

Challenging biographies : re-locating the theory and practice of careers work / Andrew Edwards (editor) [contributors] Hazel Reid, Linden West, Bill Law.

Please send any new title suggestions in this area to Cristina Ghiculescu at c.ghiculescu@library.uq.edu.au

Recent titles in the library (Economics)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Please send any new title suggestions in this area to Jennifer Creese at j.creese@library.uq.edu.au

Recent titles in the library (Business Organisation and Communication, 1 April 2008)

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Corporate governance in Japan [electronic resource] : institutional change and organizational diversity / edited by Masahiko Aoki, Gregory Jackson, Hideaki Miyajima.

Private equity, corporate governance and the dynamics of capital market regulation / editor, Justin O’Brien.

The Pfeiffer book of successful communication skill-building tools / edited by Jack Gordon.

Shackleton’s way : leadership lessons from the great Antarctic explorer / Margot Morrell, Stephanie Capparell foreword by Alexandra Shackleton.

Exploring identity : concepts and methods / edited by Alison Pullen, Nic Beech and David Sims.

Organizational behavior / Robert Kreitner, Angelo Kinicki.

Unmanaging : opening up the organization to its own unspoken knowledge / Theodore Taptiklis.

The Oxford handbook of corporate social responsibility / edited by Andrew Crane … [et al.].

Management and organization review .

Please send any new title suggestions in this area to Cristina Ghiculescu at c.ghiculescu@library.uq.edu.au