Budget Papers 2012-13

Generally, there are assignments related to the Budget following its release each year. Should you receive any queries, the 2012-13 Budget Papers can be found on the Central Budget website:
http://www.budget.gov.au/

and the Treasury at:
http://www.treasury.gov.au/Policy-Topics/BudgetingAndExpenditure

ECH216 Assignment

1. This is an online quiz due March 12 2012.

2. Students are provided with detailed instructions in iLearn on how to proceed. Check first that they have read the instructions and completed the practice quiz. The lecturers have confirmed (via Carol Walker as liaison) that the students are expected to do the assignment themseves.

3. The assignment questions revolve around trying to do set searches in Psychinfo to see the results of different searches, to do an author search and to search for something using the DOI and then checking in Ulrichs to see if the serial title is peer reviewed.

4. Some of the group have come directly from TAFE to start 200 level units, and may be unfamiliar with Library services. Ask what specific problem they have, having read the instructions and completed the practice quiz.

5. In my experience, finding the DOI (and explaining the DOI) can be the most complicated part. Staff may find this 3 minute YouTube video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Afmknkzeo - which explains how DOIs operate in Psychinfo to be of interest. Note that all platforms for the database are covered.

6. It is anticipated that this assignment will be offered in future years.

Mintel Industry Reports

The Library does not hold the Mintel reports (industry studies).

Phanh advises that the following databases may provide similar information:

1. Business monitor online - mainly industry reports e.g insurance, autos, pharmaceuticals etc...
2. Global market information databases published by Euromonitor that provides consumer reports e.g consumer electronics, luxury goods etc...
3. Business source premier - provides Datamonitor reports (both companies and industries)

You can acess these databases via the Library home page at:
http://www.mq.edu.au/on_campus/library/

Select Databases they search for the name of databases mentioned above.

You can also post an email to Phanh with the client details and query.

Past assignments 02 - tricky questions answered

1. BBA 300 level students asked for information on international visitors to Australia.
There are some yearly data for visitors visiting Sydney in the last 10 years. However they are in pdf format. Students have to do a bit of work in order to get the total number of visitors to Sydney for a particular year.
Look at page 27 of December 2009 report and you know what I mean. See link below.
For 1999-2002 figures look in the International Visitor Survey Annual 1999-2002.
http://www.ret.gov.au/tourism/tra/international/survey/Pages/default.aspx

2. The Encyclopedia of Australian Science is a register of the people and the many industries, corporations, research institutions, scientific societies and other organisations that have contributed to Australia's scientific, technological and medical heritage, with references to their archival materials and a bibliography of their historical published literature.
The website can be found at : http://www.eoas.info/
One of the more interesting features are the virtual exhibitions which can be found here: http://www.eoas.info/exhibs.html

3. ECH130 assignment on indigenous peoples:

Indigenous people were not officially recognised in stats before the 1960s so we cannot provide accurate details re health numbers etc. before then.
Mention the bicentennial: Australians: Ref DU 110 .A7964 vol 10 historical statistics ch 18 health and medicine which has an opening item on this before the statistics start.
Refer to the Indigenous Studies libguide, especially the Helpful Links and Recommended Readings.
Databases: look under: the subjects Australian Economy (for ABS statistics), Australian History and Indigenous Studies. Academic search premier has several full text items if you do a search on 'indigenous and health and Australia'.
Try the ABS Year Books (1301.0 NB or available online) and look for: indigenous well-being.

The Informit database has added a new link to an Indigenous Collection. This collection is made up of various Informit full text publications and citations which have been grouped under the one heading to make searching easier.
The main Informit page displays the collection as the fifth collection in the list: http://search.informit.com.au/

4. Law 203 - Wilkinson v
Downton 1897 Queens bench.
It is available on Westlaw. At Search for database put in Queens bench and click Go. At the next screen select All Law Reports and OK.
Enter "Wilkinson v Downton". There are 84 results because it has been cited that many times! The case is number 82.
It is also available in print from Times Law Reports Vol 13, p388. 1986-1897. KD288.A5

Past assignments - tricky questions answered

1. Economics assignments on Outsourcing
Start with the database Business Source Premier, which has some good articles.
The best search term to start with is: contracting out (change Select a Field (Optional) to SU Subject Term when entering the search on the database)

2. ACEF851 assignment
The article 'Building Innovation: Learning with technologies' by Kathryn Moyle is available at:http://www.acer.edu.au/research/publications/aer . It can also be located on Multisearch (enter author and title) or through a Google Scholar search.

3. ECH130/229 assignment 'grey' literature
Information in 'grey' literature can be found at the following locations:
http://www.une.edu.au/library/eskillsplus/research/grey.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Literature_Network_Service
http://www.alpn.edu.au/node/61
http://subjectguides.library.unsw.edu.au/content.php?pid=13242&sid=89840http://www.greynet.org/
http://libguides.library.uwa.edu.au/content.php?pid=180393&sid=1517495
As well as the PsychEXTRA database.

4. MAS104 - film analysis of Baz Luhrmann's Billabong Campaign
To watch the ads, do a Google search under: baz luhrmann billabong campaign - give Utube and other sources. NB: Also boab campaign.
Newspaper articles can be found on Factiva or Proquest ANZ Newsstand databases.
Books such as David Bordwell: Film Art (PN1995. B617 2004) give a good introduction on how to analyse a film, or Graeme Turner and Stuart Cunningham: The Media and Communications in Australia (P92.A8. M413 2010).
The Gruen Transfer - 18 March 2009 - How do you sell... Australia looks at tourism campaigns including Baz Luhrmann's ads, the 'Where the bloody hell are you?' campaign, and Paul Hogan's ad from 1994. This segment also discusses similarities between tourism ads for different countries. Not academic but an example of textual analysis.

5. Law assignments - second reading of a legislation
To find the second reading of a legislation you need to:
1. Find the Corporations Act 2001 which is located in print at KTA 382.
2. Locate the date of the Second reading in the Act (somewhere at the beginning of the Act).
3. Go to the Hansard at J905.H25 or http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/hanssen.htm to locate the Second reading.

6. Top 100 Brandz
The following PDF document lists the top 100 global brands for 2011. This may be useful for queries and assignments relating to brands, sectors or marketing: http://brandz.ogilvyeditions.com/top100/2011/BrandZ_Top100.pdf

7. Australia's Climate Change Review and Carbon Pricing
A report on Australia's Climate Change Review is available at: http://www.garnautreview.org.au/
A 2011 update of the report focusses on Australia's Carbon Pricing Scheme: http://www.garnautreview.org.au/update-2011/garnaut-review-2011.html
This information may be useful for assignments and research

8. Book on the history of Macquarie University:

Try: Mansfield, Bruce: Liberality of Opportunity a history of Macquarie University 1964-1989

LG712.M35 .M37

9. Biology assignment - identifying/describing acacia plants:

Recommended print reference sources for this assignment include:

Flora of New South Wales

Flora of Australia:Volume11A Acacia Part 1

Native Plants of the Sydney District/Fairley and Moore

10. Picture books on children with disabilities:

Try: disab? and "picture book" or disab? and "juvenile fiction" on the Catalogue
Try: "More notes from a different drummer : a guide to juvenile fiction portraying the disabled " - ARC Curriculum Z1037.9. B36 1984
Try: The University of Illinois resource that lists over 100 picture books about disabilities: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/blog/esslchildlit/archives/2006/01/picture_books_a.html

Map Assignments - Useful Information

This information relates to a number of assignments over the past four years that used maps. The information on each assignment is listed here as a convenient starting point:

1. GEOS115 - topographic map of the Katherine region and Mt Todd gold mine. There are two maps in the Map Collection that they can use:
Katherine 1:100,000 topographic map G8960.s100.A8 sheet number 5369
Katherine 1:250,000 topographic map G8960.s250.A82 sheet number SD53-9

2. Damian Gore - Physical Geography Assignment using 1:25,000 topographic map for the Pokolbin area. Use the Cessnock 91 32-2N map.
Held in the vertical map cabinets on level 1 at G8970 s-25.L6 sheet 9132-2N ed 3.
There are also earlier editions if historical comparison is required.

3. Biology assignment (Jim Kohen) - Vegetation of the Parramatta area.

The Sydney 1:25 000 vegetation map at Map G8964.S9.D2/1994.B46

Jim Kohen has written a number of articles on this subject.

Doug Benson and Jocelyn Howell have also written two useful sources:

- Natural Vegetation of the Sydney Area - ARC QK445.C8 Vol. 3 pt 4 pp. 677-787 (Part of the Cunninghamia journal series)

- Taken for granted - QK445. B46 (in 2012 both copies are in Reserve)

BESS after hours assignment submission

The overnight assignment drop box for Business and Economics is located at E4B 106 (BESS). Students can submit assignments via this box outside of working hours; assignments will be processed and date stamped the next working day.

Burning CD/DVDs in the Library

The Library PCs (both client and service zone) do not have the capacity to burn CDs or DVDs.

Clients may ask about this from time to time as there are occasionally assignments which request the burning of certain material.


Information extracted from Luke Jay's email dated 8/8/11.