Library Holdings

The Niven Library houses material belonging to the Percy FitzPatrick Institute, the Zoology Department, including the SA Ringing Unit and the Animal Demography Unit, BirdLife SA and UCT Libraries.

Books

All books are arranged according to the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system and include:

• Reference books (for use in the Library only)
• General books and proceedings
• Rare and valuable books in the Locked Cupboard
• Large Books

Periodicals

Journals are arranged alphabetically by title in the Library with a separate sequence of lesser-used journals arranged alphabetically in the adjacent compact storage.

Downloadable Information:

• Niven Library journal list [PDF]
• Niven Library newsletter list [PDF]
• List of journal abbreviations (BIOSIS format) produced by the University of Queensland library [PDF]

The Richard K. Brooke Memorial Reprint Collection

The reprint collection is arranged alphabetically by senior/first author in boxes in the stacks. A growing electronic reprint collection in PDF format is augmenting the existing reprint collection. These reprints are for the research purposes of FitzPatrick Institute and Zoology Department staff and students and are indexed separately in a PDF catalogue.

Theses and honours projects

These are arranged alphabetically by author in two separate sequences in the stacks. A complete list can be found in the Publications section of the website (See: Dissertations and Projects).