REFERENCE TOOLS
Reference collection 994 A9425
(another set in main collection)
Australians:. A Historical Library, 1987
v.1 Australians to 1788, ed. D.J. Mulvaney.
v.2 Australians: 1838, ed. A. Atkinson.
v.3 Australians: 1888, ed. G. Davison.
v.4 Australians: 1938, ed. B. Gammage.
v.5 Australians from 1939, ed. A. Curthoys.
v.7 Australians: a guide to sources, ed. D.H.
Borchardt.
v.8 Australians: events and places, ed. G. Aplin.
v.9..Australians: a historical dictionary, ed. G.
Aplin.
v.10 Australians: historical statistics, ed. W.
Vramplew.
Encyclopaedias and Dictionaries
There are a number of these in the Reference Collection at 994.003 such
as:
Reference collection 994.003 D265o
The Oxford companion to Australian history, ed. Graeme
Davison.
1998
Others are:
Reference collection 03 A93.6
Australian encyclopaedia .6th ed. 1996
Reference collection 03 B199c
Cambridge encyclopedia of Australia, ed. Susan Bambrick.
1994
Reference collection 994.0049915 H823
Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia: Aboriginal and Torres
Strait
Islander history, society and culture 2 vols. 1994.
Reference collection 305.899915 K64o
The Oxford companion to Aboriginal art and culture.
ed. S. Kleinert. 2000
Reference collection 994 J95a
.2
The Australian people : an
encyclopedia of the nation, its people and their origins, ed.
James Jupp 2nd ed. 2001
Reference collection 820.9A P617o.2
The Oxford literary guide to Australia. ed. P Pierce. 1993
Chronologies
Reference collection 994 B255w
Barker, A. What happened when: a chronology of Australia, 1788-1994.
1996
DATABASES
searching for newspaper and journal articles
Newspapers - Australian and international
Factiva
is an index to Australian and international newspapers,
magazines etc and includes full text for many titles.
Great for recent biography and book reviews.
Australia - best for your Australian topics
Australian public affairs - full text: APA-FT.
Includes full text for some journals 1995-, notably Art and Australia.
Australia/New Zealand reference centre - some full text journals and news.
AEI:
Australian Education Index
AustLit:
the resource for Australian literature
FAMILY:
Australian Family and Society Abstracts
MAIS
: Multicultural Australia and Immigration Studies
International
Studies
on women & gender abstracts 1994-
Academic OneFile 1980-
Replaces Expanded Academic ASAP. A collection of nearly 20 million peer-reviewed, articles, a large proportion of which are full-text in HTML and PDF format from more than 8000 journals.
Academic Search Premier
Replaces EBSCOhost's Academic Search Elite and is double the size of the latter, providing full text for over 4000 of the 8000 journals across all subject areas.
JSTOR is a full text collection of journal from their first issue until 3-5 years ago.
Project Muse gives access to University Press and other scholarly electronic journals in the social sciences, humanities etc from the mid 1990's onwards.Good for
book reviews.
Includes Biography 2000-.
Biography issue 4 each year includes an
Annual Bibliography of Works
about Life Writing.
WWW RESOURCES
Australian Story
(ABC)
First
Person
(ABC)
National Library of Australia:
Australian
History selected websites
Australia's oral history
collections: a national directory
Bringing them
Home Oral
History
project....and...Building
a community of voices
Documenting a
Life
Seminar
Private Lives
Revealed: Letters, Diaries, History
Voices and
Memory:
Australian Oral History
Seven
Years On - Oral history project
Report (2005) on the proposed People Portal Project
Judith Pearce's paper on the People Portal Project
Judith Pearces on User collaboration in websites
National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait
Islander Children from Their Families (Stolen generations) Stories
from the Report
National
Portrait
Gallery, Canberra
Australian War Memorial
National Museum of Australia
Australian women's
archives project
National Archives of Australia - Uncommon lives
Golden
threads exhibition website
City of Sydney - Quong Tart
Chinese-Australian Historical Images in Australia (CHIA)
Chinese Heritage of Australian Federation Project
Public Record Office, Victoria
Lucy
- a private life revealed through public records...
See also their Sources
relating to women at PROV
First Ladies, an online guide to archival resources relating to women held at Public Record Office Victoria.
Electronic
journal of Australian
and New Zealand History.
State Library of South
Australia
Online research
materials
at the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library
Other useful www pages on this Library Information Service
include:
Australian
History, a guide to resources, including South Australia
Australian
literature on the world wide web
Aboriginal
Studies
History of the Indigenous Peoples of Australia:
Part
A, 1788-1900,
Part
B Aboriginal people in Twentieth Century Australia
SPECIFIC TOPICS
Indigenous Australians
See also Aboriginal
Studies: a guide to library resources on the Library's web page,
and
History of the Indigenous Peoples of Australia:
Part
A, 1788-1900,
Part
B Aboriginal people in Twentieth Century Australia
Reference collection 994.0049915 H823e
Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia: Aboriginal and Torres
Strait
Islander history, society and culture. 2 vols. 1994.
Reference collection 305.899915 K64o
The Oxford companion to Aboriginal art and culture.
ed. S. Kleinert. 2000
For a thorough search for books, reports, journal articles on
a specific
Aboriginal topic,
search Mura, the AIATSIS
library
catalogue.
Reference collection 994.0049915 G946
Guide to records relating to Aboriginal people. State
Records
(South Australia) 5 Vols. 1988-1991.
Reference collection 929.394 L933r
Resources for Aboriginal family history, ed. R. Lucas,
1986.
Reference collection 994.0049915016 N2776m
Mura Gadi : an online guide to manuscripts, pictures and oral histories in the National Library of Australia relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. 2004
Biography
Online and Reference collection 920 A937
Australian dictionary of biography, ed. D. Pike. v. 1- and
index.
Reference collection 920.094 M736
Monash biographical dictionary of 20th century Australia.
ed.
John Arnold. 1994.
Special collections rare books 920.5 W62au
Johns's notable Australians. in various guises preceded Who's
who in Australia.1906, 1908, 1912-1914, 1922
Reference collection 920.5 W62au
Who's who in Australia. 1927-
Women
Reference collection 305.420994 R129t
200 Australian women: a redress anthology. ed. H.Radi.
1988.
Reference collection 920.720994 L829w
Lofthouse, A Who's who of Australian women 1982
Reference collection 920.720994 S478s
A sense of purpose: great Australian women of the 20th century.
1996
Reference collection 920.720994 P957
Principal women of the Empire: Australia and New Zealand.
2
microfiches.
(Reproduction of: Principal women of the
Empire :
Australia and New Zealand. Vol. I. London : Mitre Press, 1940)
Heritage : the national women's art book, 500 works by 500 Australian women artists from colonial times to 1955, ed. Joan Kerr,1995
Reference collection 709.94 K41h
Other categories
Reference collection 709.94 R631c
Robb, G. Concise dictionary of Australian artists.
1993.
Reference collection 355.0994 C855d
The Diggers : makers of the Australian military
tradition:
lives from the Australian dictionary of biography,
ed. Chris Coulthard-Clark. 1993.
Reference collection 270.0994 D551a
The Australian dictionary of evangelical biography, ed.
Brian
Dickey.1994.
Bibliography of biographies
Reference collection 920.094 B726c
Borchardt, D. H. Checklist of collective biographies.1988.
Reference collection 920.094 W225a
Walsh, K. Australian autobiographical narratives : an annotated
bibliography 1993-
Vol. 1. To 1850 -- v. 2. 1850-1900
Immigration and Multiculturalism
Reference collection 994 J95a.2
The Australian people : an encyclopedia of the nation, its
people
and their origins, ed. James Jupp. 2nd
ed.
2001
Reference collection 305.80099405 S933
Studies in Australian ethnic history, Centre for
Immigration
and Multicultural Studies, Australian National University
A collectiom of 13 very interesting studies
of
Australian immigraion,
with a focus on the workings of the White
Australian
policy.
Bibliographies
MAIS
: Multicultural Australia and Immigration Studies
a database of Australian publications on
multicultural
issues.
Reference collection 325.9405 A938
Australian immigration: a bibliography and digest.
1966-1979
and supplement, 1981.
Reference collection 325.9405 C623c
Clearing House on Migration Issues. C.H.O.M.I. Bibliographies,
no. 2- 1977-
Reference collection 994.0040431 B667i
Bodi, L. Image of a continent: a bibliography of German Australiana
from the beginnings to 1975. 1990.
Immigrant women in Australia : an annotated bibliography,
1993
Reference collection 305.40994 A938Ii
Reference collection 305.8016 J42i
Jay, W.E. Italians in Australia: a bibliography, 1977.
Reference collection 994.004924 L6956
Lieberman, S. Bibliography of Australian Judaica. 2nd. rev.
ed. 1991.
Reference collection 994.0049185 R638p
Robe, S. Poles and Australia: a bibliographical record 1775-1980.
1986.
Reference collection 305.800994 R121
Racial discrimination in Australia. 1990.
Reference collection 325.94016 A938s
Second generation Australians : an annotated
bibliography.
1998
There is an excellent Library bibliography series published by
the Bureau
of Immigration and Population Research, Central Library of the
Department
of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs.
Some of the titles in this series include:
Ref 305.9827094 A938a Arabic speaking
immigrants
in Australia : an annotated bibliography. 1993
Ref 305.40994 A938Ii Immigrant women in
Australia
: an annotated bibliography. 1993
Ref 305.89592094 A938i Indochinese
refugees
in Australia : an annotated bibliography. 1990
Ref 305.800994 Y61m York, B. Maltese migration
: an
annotated guide to research sources . 1993
Ref 331.40994 A938Is Settlement
and employment
of migrant women in Australia an annotated
bibliography. 1995
Ref 306.60994 A938Im Migrants and religion :
an annotated
bibliography.1996
Ref 709.94016 A938Bm Migrants and the arts :
an annotated
bibliography. 1996.
Ref 305.800994016 A938Ir Racism in Australia
1990-1996:
an annotated bibliography. 1997.
Ref 325.94016 A938s Second generation
Australians
: an annotated bibliography. 1998
Ref 304.6016 A938Ie Population and
immigration
in Australia : an annotated bibliography. 1998
Ref 325.94016 A938Is Population
and immigration
in Australia : an annotated bibliography. 1998
Ref 362.84 A938Ii Immigrant
post-arrival
services : an annotated bibliography. 1998
Ref 325.016 A938Ia
Asia-Pacific
and Trans-Tasman migration : an annotated bibliography. . 1998
Literature and Reviews
Look in the Reference collection at 820A (between 829 & 830) for
items
such as
Reference collection 820.9A W672o.2
Wilde, W. H. The Oxford companion to Australian literature. 2nd ed. 1994
Reference collection 920 D548 325
Australian writers, 1975-2000, ed.by Selina Samuels
(vol 325 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography )
See also the Australian
literature section of Alan Keig's English web page, especially
AustLit:
the resource for Australian literature
Reference collection 820.9A G975b
A Bibliography of Australian multicultural writers,
compiled
by Sneja Gunew. 1992
APAIS (both in paper format and on electronically) does not
index
book reviews.
There are two Australian book reviewing journals
which
may be useful, but are somewhat frustrating due to their lack of annual
indexes.
Reference collection 05 A9383
Australian women's book review. 1989-
Reference collection 05 A926.2
Australian book review (new series). 1978-
You may also find reviews in newspapers by using Indexes
to newspapers
Women and Men
Reference collection 305.409171421 B156w
Bailey, S.F. Women and the British Empire: an annotated
guide
to sources. 1983.
Reference collection 305.42016 B565h
Bettison, M. Her story: Australian women print 1788-1975. 1980.
Reference collection 305.420994 F791b
Fox, C.J. A bibliography of women and work in Australia. 1989
Reference collection 305.4099423 G946
Guide to records relating to women. Public Record Office of
South
Australia. 5vols. 1988.
Reference collection 305.40994 A938Ii
Immigrant women in Australia : an annotated bibliography,
1993
Reference collection 305.420994 K175s
Kaplan, Gisela. Spectrum : a bibliography of women in
Australia,
1945 to the present. 1995.
Reference collection 305.40994 M188b
Magarey, S. A bibliography of Australian women’s history.
1990
Reference collection 305.40994 R673w
Roche, T. Women in Australian history: an annotated bibliography.
1989.
Men's
bibliography -
Australian, and very good
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