Library Update no.26
Published each week, the Library Update lists recent library acquisitions such as books, journals, audiovisual material, reports, statistics, and any other items of interest.
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- News this week
- Recent staff publications
- Books, reports, statistics, other media
- Journals in print
- Health and science news
News this week
Safari Business Books
These online books provide a complete business skills and professional development electronic reference library, with titles from top business publishers.
Select 'Online books' in the library catalogue, then 'Safari Business Books' to see the full list. Within Safari Books Online, select 'Library' to access all the titles. You can search across all current titles, and within particular book titles.
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Current titles:
- The 7 hidden reasons employees leave: how to recognize the subtle signs and act before it's too late.
- 30 days to a more powerful memory.
- 30 reasons employees hate their managers: what your people may be thinking and what you can do about it.
- 2600 phrases for effective performance reviews: ready-to-use words and phrases that really get results.
- Administrative assistant's and secretary's handbook.
- The AMA guide to management development.
- Crunch point: the 21 secrets to succeeding when it matters most.
- Disagreements, disputes, and all-out war: 3 simple steps for dealing with any kind of conflict.
- The EQ interview: finding employees with high emotional intelligence.
- The first-time manager's guide to performance appraisals.
- The first-time manager's guide to team building.
- From difficult to disturbed: understanding and managing dysfunctional employees.
- Goal setting: how to create an action plan and achieve your goals.
- Going lean: how the best companies apply lean manufacturing principles to shatter uncertainty, drive innovation, and maximize profits.
- How to become a better negotiator.
- The leadership advantage: how the best companies are developing their talent to pave the way for future success.
- A manager's guide to coaching: simple and effective ways to get the best out of your employees.
- Persuasion IQ: the 10 skills you need to get exactly what you want.
- The power of a positive attitude: discovering the key to success.
- Power points!: how to design and deliver presentations that sizzle and sell.
- Quick meeting openers for busy managers: more than 50 icebreakers, energizers, and other creative activities that get results.
- Speak to win: how to present with power in any situation.
- Strategic staffing: a comprehensive system for effective workforce planning.
- Time power: a proven system for getting more done in less time than you ever thought possible.
- Transforming performance measurement: rethinking the way we measure and drive organizational success.
- The truth about confident presenting.
- Web 2.0: a strategy guide.
Recent staff publications
About these links: article citations are linked to full text where available, or to information about ordering documents.
Abdullah, A. F. and Menahem, S. [Department of Cardiology, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Transcatheter closure of dilated left superior vena cava for resolution of late cyanosis following fontan palliation', Heart Lung and Circulation 2006; vol.15(6), pp.393-396
Boneh, A., Beauchamp, M., Humphrey, M., Watkins, J., Peters, H. and Yaplito-Lee, J. [Metabolic Service, Genetic Health Services Victoria, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Newborn screening for glutaric aciduria type I in Victoria: treatment and outcome', Molecular Genetics & Metabolism 2008; vol.94(3), pp.287-91 (full text via Interlibrary Loan)
Brown, J. J., Ramalingam, L. and Zacharin, M. R.[Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Department of Dentistry, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Bisphosphonate-associated osteonecrosis of the jaw: does it occur in children?' Clinical Endocrinology 2008; vol.68(6), pp.863-867
Lowe, A. J., Carlin, J. B., Bennett, C. M., Hosking, C. S., Abramson, M. J., Hill, D. J. and Dharmage, S. C. [School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Do boys do the atopic march while girls dawdle?' Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2008; vol.121(5), pp.1190-1195
Mitchell, R., Wake, M., Canterford, L. and Williams, J. [Centre for Community Child Health, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Does maternal concern about children's weight affect children's body size perception at the age of 6.5?-A community-based study', International Journal of Obesity 2008; vol.32(6), pp.1001-7
Perkins, R. and Scarlett, G. [Mental Health Service, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'The effectiveness of single session therapy in child and adolescent mental health. Part 2: an 18-month follow-up study', Psychology & Psychotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice 2008; vol.81(Pt 2), pp.143-56 (full text via Interlibrary Loan)
Rogerson, F. M., Stanton, H., East, C. J., Golub, S. B., Tutolo, L., Farmer, P. J. and Fosang, A. J. [University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Evidence of a novel aggrecan-degrading activity in cartilage: studies of mice deficient in both ADAMTS-4 and ADAMTS-5', Arthritis & Rheumatism 2008; vol.58(6), pp.1664-73
Rozen, W. M., Joseph, S. and Lo, P. A. [Department of Neurosurgery, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Spontaneous involution of two sinus pericranii - a unique case and review of the literature', Journal of Clinical Neuroscience 2008; vol.15(7), pp.833-835
Selzer, R., Hamill, C., Bowes, G. and Patton, G. [Center for Adolescent Health, Royal Children's Hospital, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'The Branched Eating Disorders Test: validity in a nonclinical population', International Journal of Eating Disorders 1996; vol.20(1), pp.57-64 (full text via Interlibrary Loan)
Venn, A., Hosmer, T., Hosmer, D., Bruinsma, F., Jones, P., Lumley, J., Pyett, P., Rayner, J. A. and Werther, G. [Centre for Hormone Research, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville,Vic., Australia.], 'Oestrogen treatment for tall stature in girls: Estimating the effect on height and the error in height prediction', Clinical Endocrinology 2008; vol.68(6), pp.926-929
Young, S., Hutchinson, A., Nguyen, V. T., Le, T. H., Nguyen, D. V. and Vo, T. K. [Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Teaching paediatric resuscitation skills in a developing country: introduction of the Advanced Paediatric Life Support course into Vietnam', Emergency Medicine Australasia 2008; vol.20(3), pp.271-5
Books, reports, statistics, other media
- 616.00835 ADO
- Adolescence and health
- Edited by John Coleman, Leo B. Hendry, Marion Kloep. John Wiley, 2007.
- Begins by examining topics such as sexuality, eating disorders and the use or abuse of substances, and then moves on to wider discussions including the best way to promote health or provide clinical services to a group who are neither fully adult nor children.
- 616.8491 HEA
- Headache in children and adolescents
- Edited by Paul Winner, Donald W. Lewis, and A. David Rothner 2nd ed. B.C. Decker, 2008.
- This popular clinical text on headache evaluation and management provides the latest in evidence-based medicine and the experiences of the authors, all experts in the field.
- 618.9201 LEV
- Cancer in children and young people: acute nursing care
- Edited by Faith Gibson and Louise Soanes. 2nd ed. John Wiley, 2008.
- Previous edition was titled: "Paediatric oncology: acute nursing care". This text examines chemotherapy, haemotopoietic stem cell transplantation, general surgery, radiotherapy and the late effects of cancer therapies.
- 618.92 PED
- Pediatric primary care
- Edited by Catherine E. Burns et al. 4th ed. Saunders, 2009.
- Covers the wide spectrum of conditions seen in primary care of children, and emphasises prevention, as well as management, and presents guidelines on assessing children from infancy through adolescence.
- RCH Grand Rounds
- 26th June 2008 [DVD]
- Mind the gap: global trends in primary-tertiary partnerships - presented by Susan Jury.
Mother & Child Health Research, La Trobe University, Annual Report, 2007.
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Annual Report, 2007.
Southern Adelaide Health Service, Annual Report, 2006-2007.
Journals in print
About these links: some online titles are unavailable to off site users; see the online Journals List for other link options.
- Academic Emergency Medicine
- v.15 (6), June 2008 [password]
- Ambulatory Pediatrics
- v.8 (3), May-June 2008 [password]
- American Journal of Cardiology
- v.101 (11), 1st June 2008 [password]
v.101 (11A), Supplement, 2nd June 2008 [password]
(Nutritional supplementation with amino acids in cardiovascular and metabolic diseases: hypermetabolic syndrome as a therapeutic target. Single topic.) - American Journal of Epidemiology
- v.167 (11), 1st June 2008
v.167 (11), 1st June 2008
(Abstracts of the 41st Annual Meeting, Society for Epidemiologic Research. Single topic.) - American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
- v.177 (11), 1st June 2008
(Ethnic differences in adolescent lung function: anthropometric, socioeconomic, and psychosocial factors, p.1262) - Annals of Internal Medicine
- v.148 (11), 3rd June 2008
- Archives of Internal Medicine
- v.168 (10), 26th May 2008
v.168 (11), 9th June 2008 - Archives of Pediatrics AND Adolescent Medicine
- v.162 (6), June 2008
- BMJ: British Medical Journal
- v.336 (7658), 21st June 2008
(Effect of 50 000 IU vitamin A given with BCG vaccine on mortality in infants in Guinea-Bissau: randomised placebo controlled trial, p.1416)
(Long term prognosis in preschool children with wheeze: longitudinal postal questionnaire study 1993-2004, p.1423) - Child Abuse and Neglect
- v.32 (5), May 2008 [password]
- Circulation
- v.117 (20), 20th May 2008
v.117 (21), 27th May 2008
(A novel method of expressing left ventricular mass relative to body size in children, p.2769) - Circulation Research
- v.102 (10), 23rd May 2008
- Clinical Infectious Diseases
- v.46 (12), 15th June 2008
- Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
- v.466 (6), June 2008
- CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal
- v.178 (11), 20th May 2008
v.178 (12), 3rd June 2008 - Contemporary Pediatrics
- v.25 (5), May 2008
v.25 (5), Supplement, May 2008
(Neonatal blistering. Single topic.) - European Journal of Pediatric Surgery
- v.18 (2), April 2008
- Family Process
- v.47 (2), June 2008 [password]
- Infant Mental Health Journal
- v.29 (3), May-June 2008
(Special issue: The infants relational worlds: family, community & culture.) - JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
- v.299 (20), 28th May 2008
(High body mass index for age among US children and adolescents, 2003-2006, p.2401)
v.299 (21), 4th June 2008 - Journal of Adolescent Health
- v.42 (6), June 2008 [password]
- Journal of Applied Physiology
- v.104 (6), June 2008
- Journal of Clinical Oncology
- v.26 (16), 1st June 2008
- Journal of Infectious Diseases
- v.197 (12), 15th June 2008
- Journal of Pediatric Surgery
- v.43 (5), May 2008 [password]
- Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- v.47 (6), June 2008
- Nature
- v.453 (7197), 12th June 2008
v.453 (7198), 19th June 2008 - Neurology
- v.70 (21), 20th May 2008
v.70 (22), 27th May 2008
v.70 (22), part 2, 27th May 2008
(Bonus issue: Epilepsy and related disorders.) - New England Journal of Medicine
- v.358 (22), 29th May 2008
v.358 (23), 5th June 2008
(Hypothermia therapy after traumatic brain injury in children, p.2447) - New Scientist
- v.198 (2661), 21st June 2008
- Pediatric Emergency Care
- v.24 (5), May 2008
- Pediatric Neurology
- v.38 (6), June 2008 [password]
- Pediatric Research
- v.63 (6), June 2008
- Pediatrics in Review
- v.29 (6), June 2008
- Science
- v.320 (5882), 13th June 2008
- Thrombosis and Haemostasis
- v.99 (4), April 2008
- Zero to Three
- v.28 (5), May 2008
Health and science news
Medgadget
» Cardiac Electrophysiology Goes Robotic and 3D with CoHesion™ - Hansen Medical of Mountain View, California just received FDA approval to market the company's new CoHesion visualization module for complex electrophysiology (EP) mapping procedures, a technology that bridges St Jude's 3D visualization gu..
03/07/08 - Medgadget
» Motion C5 Mobile Clinical Assistant Gets New Features - Motion Computing has just announced that its clinically oriented C5 tablet PC, a computer covered by us on a number of occasions before (see flashbacks below), has just been upgraded and fortified thanks to a new solid state drive (SSD). H..
03/07/08 - Medgadget
» Laser Opto-Acoustic Imaging Technology from Seno Medical - Here's what we know about the opto-acoustic imaging technology from Seno Medical Instruments , Inc., a San Antonio, Texas firm. A recent report on the wires says that there is a new research agreement between Seno Medical and two Canadian ..
03/07/08 - Medgadget
» Metal Layering Technique Leads to Fine Tuned Implants - German researchers have developed a manufacturing technique that should make individual bone implants cheaper and more effective. This involves coating a surface with wafer-thin layers of special metal powder. A laser beam heats – or..
03/07/08 - Medgadget
» Sand Away Plaque, Keep The Enamel - A new and apparently more precise method to assess the abrasion caused by dental products has been developed by Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials scientists. From the press release: A leading manufacturer of dental hygiene pr..
03/07/08 - Medgadget
ABC Science Online: Health and Medical News
» Call to encourage climate-friendly farms - NEWS ANALYSIS: Australian farmers could have a huge impact on greenhouse emissions and the government needs to start seriously encouraging them to sequester carbon in their soils, say some experts.
04/07/08 - ABC Science Online: News in Science
» Carbon specks push back origins of life - Tiny traces of carbon trapped inside the oldest diamonds ever found, suggest life started on Earth 700 million years earlier than previously thought, say Australian researchers.
04/07/08 - ABC Science Online: News in Science
» Chance discovery sheds light on SIDS - An imbalance of a key brain chemical could be the cause of cot death, after a chance discovery by researchers in Italy.
04/07/08 - ABC Science Online: News in Science
» Extinction risks 'underestimated' - Some endangered species may face an extinction risk that is up to a hundred times greater than previously thought, according to a new study.
03/07/08 - ABC Science Online: News in Science
» Teen years officially a pain in the neck - Australian researchers have proven what high school students have long suspected, being a teenager can be a real pain in the neck.
03/07/08 - ABC Science Online: News in Science
BBC World Health News
» Sulston argues for open medicine - Genome pioneer and Nobel Laureate Sir John Sulston says profits are taking precedence over the needs of patients, particularly in the developing world.
04/07/08 - BBC News | Health | World Edition
» Tofu 'may raise risk of dementia' - Eating high levels of some soy products - including tofu - may raise the risk of memory loss, research suggests.
04/07/08 - BBC News | Health | World Edition
» How can a man have a baby? - The case of Thomas Beatie who has just given birth to a baby girl raises interest in gender reassignment.
04/07/08 - BBC News | Health | World Edition
» Brain imbalance 'cot death key' - More evidence has emerged that a chemical imbalance in the brain may play a key role in cot deaths.
04/07/08 - BBC News | Health | World Edition
» Call for sex lessons at age four - Two leading sexual health charities call for compulsory sex education for children as young as four.
04/07/08 - BBC News | Health | World Edition
CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Commission)
» Zeroing in on brain chemical's link to SIDS: scientists - An imbalance in a brain chemical linked to depression may also have something to do with sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), say Italian scientists who have uncovered new evidence that may pinpoint how it happens.
04/07/08 - CBC | Health & Science News
» Transgendered man gives birth to girl - A U.S. man who was born a woman but underwent a gender change has given birth to a girl.
04/07/08 - CBC | Health & Science News
» Lab problems due to restructuring, former clinical chief says - In his third day of testimony at the Cameron inquiry into faulty hormone receptor tests at Eastern Health, former clinical chief Dr. Donald Cook said he believes the root of the problem lies with corporate restructuring in the 1990s.
04/07/08 - CBC | Health & Science News
» First Canadian case linked to U.S. salmonella outbreak - Health officials have discovered the first Canadian case linked to a massive salmonella outbreak in the United States that has sickened more than 900 people.
04/07/08 - CBC | Health & Science News
» ADHD drug linked to suicide attempts: Health Canada - A drug commonly used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity (ADHD) disorder in children, teens and adults has been linked to numerous adverse reactions, including suicide attempts, Health Canada has warned.
03/07/08 - CBC | Health & Science News
