NSW Rural Fire Service Library New books, articles and reports in your library this month This month’s new additions includes books, reports and articles on community engagement, community resilience and Hurricane Katrina, the Grenfell Tower independent interim report, fire management, severe weather, disaster communications, business ethics, recent articles on mental health and firefighting, Michael Mosley’s popular publication and Peter Fitzsimons’ latest book in addition to a Clever Guts Diet Burke and Wills – number of new eBooks. Contact your librarian Katie to borrow any of the books or to request articles at Planning to study this year let your library assist you with these resources – Are you undertaking a course this year of study and not sure how to organise yourself, cite a reference or have not composed more than emails in years. The library has a number of resources that may help. Located under Lists on the library website, this cover such areas as time management, critical thinking, referencing, good study habits, writing effectively, perfecting punctuation and (most importantly) searching library catalogues. Books are posted directly to library members on loan. Please for access to titles in our eBook collection and become a library member. FIRE INCIDENTS AUSTRALIAN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT – Major post-event inquiries and reviews: review of (Book) recommendations (Report) By Brannan, 2017 Bushfire & Natural Hazards CRC, 2017 Over the past decade has come a revolution in our The purpose of this project is to generate a high level understanding of global apocalypses. Armed with and comprehensive description of the major recurrent new technology, scientists have dived into deep time categories of recommendations across multiple to examine our planet's near-death experiences. A reviews conducted since 2009 in Australia. rip-roaring chronicle and a cautionary tale, The Ends The project seeks to understand whether there is of the World reveals how these five near extinctions ongoing value for state and territory emergency gave rise to our modern world, while providing a services to consider the lessons from major reviews terrifying window on to what may lie ahead. and inquiries from other jurisdictions within their own Please contact the library to borrow this book. context, or whether lessons are too specific and lack broader import. (Book) Please use this to read the report online. 2018 This book presents a unique, integrative understanding of Hurricane Katrina in the New
NSW Rural Fire Service Library New books, articles and reports in your library this month This month’s new additions includes books, reports and articles on community engagement, community resilience and Hurricane Katrina, the Grenfell Tower independent interim report, fire management, severe weather, disaster communications, business ethics, recent articles on mental health and firefighting, Michael Mosley’s popular Clever Guts Diet publication and Peter Fitzsimons’ latest book – Burke and Wills in addition to a number of new eBooks. Contact your librarian Katie to borrow any of the books or to request articles at Planning to study this year – let your library assist you with these resources Are you undertaking a course this year of study and not sure how to organise yourself, cite a reference or have not composed more than emails in years. The library has a number of resources that may help. Located under Lists on the library website, this cover such areas as time management, critical thinking, referencing, good study habits, writing effectively, perfecting punctuation and (most importantly) searching library catalogues. Books are posted directly to library members on loan. Please for access to titles in our eBook collection and become a library member. FIRE INCIDENTS – AUSTRALIAN Major post-event inquiries and reviews: review of recommendations (Report) Bushfire & Natural Hazards CRC, 2017 The purpose of this project is to generate a high level and comprehensive description of the major recurrent categories of recommendations across multiple reviews conducted since 2009 in Australia. The project seeks to understand whether there is ongoing value for state and territory emergency services to consider the lessons from major reviews and inquiries from other jurisdictions within their own context, or whether lessons are too specific and lack broader import. Please use this to read the report online. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT (Book) By Brannan, 2017 Over the past decade has come a revolution in our understanding of global apocalypses. Armed with new technology, scientists have dived into deep time to examine our planet's near-death experiences. A rip-roaring chronicle and a cautionary tale, The Ends of the World reveals how these five near extinctions gave rise to our modern world, while providing a terrifying window on to what may lie ahead. Please contact the library to borrow this book. (Book) 2018 This book presents a unique, integrative understanding of Hurricane Katrina in the New