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The Library offers a range of engaging workshops and events for students, researchers and other members of the UWA community.

 

View our full calendar of events, including research support workshops, EndNote classes, 3D Print Labs and more.

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New library services in Semester 2, 2019
Tue, 27 Aug 2019

The University Library is now offering two new time-saving and convenient services for students. Live Chat and On-Shelf Requesting makes accessing information sources and support simple from any location, and saves valuable time.

Live Chat: Library staff are available via live chat 1pm-8pm Monday to Friday, and can help if you get stuck while researching or referencing for assignments. Just head to OneSearch to find the blue chat button.

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Friends of the Library talk Tuesday 10th September 2019 with Paul Gibbard on: Translating a classic French novel - the problems posed by Emile Zola’s ‘The Dream’
Mon, 26 Aug 2019

In his celebrated Rougon-Macquart series of twenty novels, Émile Zola sought to present a ‘natural and social history of a family’ during the years of the Second Empire in France, 1852-1870. This was a family filled with ‘ravenous appetites’ who diffused in to all strata of French society, from the world of labour, in works like L’Assommoir and Germinal, to the upper echelons of French society in novels such as Money and The Kill.

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Friends of the Library talk Tuesday 13th August 2019 with Peter Veth on "The Atlantis of the North: unique records from ‘drowned landscapes’ off northern Australia"
Wed, 24 Jul 2019

One of the defining attributes of modern humans is their ability to cross, navigate and systematically exploit maritime landscapes and resources. Some of the earliest indirect evidence for the maritime capabilities of people comes from the settling of the Wallacean Islands and Sahul (Australia, PNG, Tasmania).

Direct evidence includes early dated occupation sites in northern Australia, fishing technologies and marine dietary assemblages from Timor Leste and Borneo, and midden and shell artefacts from North West Australia dated from 50,000 years ago.

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