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November 30, 2008

News from the Library

Hello all and welcome newcomers:

My intern Ian Capiluto has finished his stint at our Library, so the cataloging speed is slower. I have two more interns from San Jose State University coming in January, though, so we will get back up to speed. I am pleased to have our new historian, Mitchell Bishop, on staff. He will have the library open Sunday afternoons from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. This is a great benefit to our weekend customers. My volunteers, Pam Wolken and Barbara Zaias, have been working hard getting the magazine and nursery catalog records into the online catalog. Take a look. Do a search for the word ‘periodicals’ and you will see the richness of the collection. Right now we have 509 periodical titles in the catalog! My favorite new periodical title is Aloe, the newsletter of the South African Aloe and Succulent Society. The link is to the catalog is below.

Arboretum Library Online Catalog

This link below is to the new books, articles, and websites lists for November. The New Book Shelf is waiting for you!

New books, articles and website lists

We are circulating to Los Angeles Arboretum Foundation members. The circulation period for books is 3 weeks with 2 renewals if no one else wants the item. You can renew by e-mail, phone or in person, but not on the online catalog. The circulation period for current magazines is 3 days with 2 renewals if no one else wants the item. Let me know if you are interested in any articles.

In order for the “Request this title” function in the online catalog to work, I have to set you up as a customer. Then it will send me an e-mail requesting that I get the item for you. If you’d like to be set up as a customer, contact me by e-mail, phone, or in person.

The Arboretum Library hours for December are as follows:

Open Tuesday-Friday 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Open Saturday, December 13, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Open Sundays, December 7, 14, 21, 28 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.


Closed Tuesday-Saturday, December 23-27

Closed Tuesday & Wednesday, December 30 & 31.

I will be on leave.

Our Botanical Information Consultants (for plant advice) are currently available six days a week, Monday-Saturday at David.Lofgren@Arboretum.org or Frank.McDonough@Arboretum.org or 626-821-3239.

Happy reading!
And here is the rest of it.

Garden’s Writer’s Association conference links

September 27, 2008

News from the Library

Hello all,

Here are the links in the presentation I gave at the Garden Writer's Association conference. Don't forget to use a botanical or horticultural librarian!

Susan C. Eubank, Arboretum Librarian
Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden
Garden Writers Association Annual Conference,
Portland, September 22, 2008


Very Large Botanical Garden Libraries; National Library

Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries

www.cbhl.net


New York Botanical Garden, LuEster T. Mertz Library

http://library.nybg.org/

Missouri Botanic Garden

http://www.mobot.org/mobot/molib/

National Agricultural Library

http://www.nal.usda.gov/

Large Universities with Botany or Arboretum Libraries
Arnold Arboretum Library, Harvard University

http://arboretum.harvard.edu/library/library.html

Botany Libraries, Harvard University

http://www.huh.harvard.edu/libraries/

Western Botanical Garden Libraries

Arboretum Library, Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden

http://www.arboretum.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=getcatheadlines&Catagory=Library

Elisabeth C. Miller Library, Center for Urban Horticulture, Seattle

http://depts.washington.edu/hortlib/

Helen Crocker Russell Library, San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum


http://www.sfbotanicalgarden.org/library/

Helen Fowler Library, Denver Botanic Gardens

http://www.botanicgardens.org/content/helen-fowler-library

Plant name sites

“IPNI” International Plant Names Index

http://www.ipni.org/index.html

“Tropicos” W3TROPICOS, Missouri Botanical Garden's VAST (VAScular Tropicos)

http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html

“RHS Horticultural Database” Royal Horticultural Society

http://www.rhs.org.uk/databases/summary.asp

Indexes

“Plantinfo” Anderson Horticultural Library, Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, University of Minnesota Libraries

http://plantinfo.umn.edu/

Garden, Landscape and Horticulture Index

From EBSCO http://www.ebsco.com/home/ $850 a year to CBHL libraries; generally available at college & universities or botanic garden libraries.

Some other useful websites

www.Efloras.org

www.worldcat.org

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