This database contains details of Irish convicts who were transported to New South Wales in the period 1788 - 1849. This website is hosted by Peter Mayberry.
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Includes Church records of Baptism, Marriages and Deaths. These records are comprised of Roman Catholic and Church of Ireland Records from Counties Carlow, Cork, Kerry and Dublin City. Hosted by the Department of Tourism, Culture and Sport.
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This Australian government site provides information on the Australian honours system, including the Order of Australia, nomination forms and a searchable database covering awards from 1901 to the present.
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The Jane Austens Fiction Manuscripts Digital Edition gathers together over one thousand pages of fiction written in Jane Austens own hand. Through digital reunification, it is now possible to access, read, and compare high quality images of original manuscripts whose material forms are scattered around the world in libraries and private collections.
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The Jersey Heritage Archive & Online Collections allows you to subscribe to view scanned copies of archives including church registers, civil registrations and wills etc
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Jigsaw.org.au is an Australian organisation that provides information, counselling, search and intermediary services to people separated from family for many different reasons.
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JSTOR is an interdisciplinary digital archive of scholarly material in the social sciences and humanities and the sciences. It includes the full text of non-current issues from over 1,000 leading academic journals as well as select monographs and other materials. The State Library subscribes to the Arts & Sciences Collections Parts I - IX and the Nineteenth Century British Pamphlets collection. Document supply available. Useful for HSC History, HSC Society & Culture and HSC English.
Justinian is Australia's most revered and disturbing law journal. For nearly 40 years, with loving attention to detail, it has chronicled the exquisite finery and the dirty linen of the legal profession.
The Koori Mail is an independently owned Aboriginal newspaper reporting political, social and cultural issues and events by or about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Established in 1991, it is a fortnightly national newspaper.
The AIATSIS Koori Mail resource was first launched in 2011 in partnership with the Department of Industry and Science, CAVAL and the State Library of New South Wales.
Labordoc contains references to a wide range of print and electronic publications, including journal articles, from countries around the world, on all aspects of work and sustainable livelihoods, and the work-related aspects of economic and social development and human rights. Produced by the International Labour Organization.
US based, the Lambda Literary Awards started in 1989.The largest LGBTIQ+ literary awards in the world, they aim to reflect the wide spectrum of LGBTIQ+ writers and books.
Use LawCite to locate and find a copy of a decision, see how a decision has been subsequently dealt with and find other materials such as journal articles about a decision. Indexed over 18,000 law report and journal series with over 4.5 million cases and law journal articles around the world. Link to freely available version of a decision if available.
Automatically generated international legal case and journal article citator that is developed, hosted and maintained by AustLII. LawCite is automatically maintained with new cases and law journal articles added as soon as they become available.
The Lawyers Practice Manual New South Wales is a procedural guide which deals with the everyday questions of legal practice and procedure. It is divided into 20 distinct areas of practice according to subject area. Includes sample precedents, lists of relevant legislation and further reference materials are included at the beginning of each chapter. Subjects covered are legal practice - criminal law - family law - accidents and injuries - housing -consumer rights - childrenc - social security - disability law - associations and organisations - legal aid - credit and debt - wills and estates - administrative review - immigration - discrimination/human rights - employment - veteran's affairs - intellectual property and communications - elder law. Document supply NOT available.
There is a significant difference within LGBTIQ, same-sex attracted and sex and gender diverse communities. Having an understanding of terminology and using language that is inclusive demonstrates respect and recognition for how people describe their own genders, bodies, and relationships.
2021 Snapshot of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention statistics for LGBTI People provides a snapshot of what is known of the current mental health and wellbeing outcomes of LGBTI people in Australia.
LGBTQ+ Source with full text, contains LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, monographs/books including classics in Lesbian Studies and Gay Science, such as The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research, Handbook of Research with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Populations, Queer Theory & Social Change, etc. The database also includes indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized LGBT Thesaurus.
This online database provides access to the holdings of over 850 Australian libraries. Supported by the National Library of Australia, the database contains information about the location of over 29 million books, journal titles and other items held in Australian library collections.
Library Hub Discover brings together the catalogues of 204 major UK and Irish libraries. In a single search you can discover the holdings of the UK’s National Libraries (including the British Library), many university libraries, and specialist research libraries. This service replaces Copac and SUNCAT.
Hosted on the EBSCO platform, Library Literature & Information Science Retrospective Index (1905-1983) covers full text content from 69 years of the Wilson Library Bulletin, indexing from Library Work (1905-1911), as well as citations to book reviews, books, and library school theses. Document supply available.
The catalogue of the collections of the US Library of Congress. This searchable database contains records of approximately 12 million items including books, maps, manuscripts and sound recordings. The catalogue includes searching aids such as cross-references.
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The Library of Congress Classification system is used in many university libraries throughout the world. This page at the Library of Congress site provides an outline of the system.
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An online collection featuring a small number of the Library of Congress's 4.5 million-item maps collection. Images include maps of Antarctica, Australasia and the world.
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Lismore City Council's searchable database of Lismore Cemetery and Memorial Gardens. Includes date of death and may include location of grave, or funeral service details.
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The collection covers the workings of the early book trade, the printing and publishing community. The establishment of legal requirements for copyright provisions and the history of bookbinding. Included are registers of entries of copies which were used to establish early copyright, as well as court records, membership records, financial records, trade records, general administrative records and charities and property records. By Adam Matthew Digital.
Each volume focuses on an individual writer, with essays that consider the various contexts within which the author lived and worked - the literary, political, intellectual, social and cultural contexts.
Literature Resource Center contains biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Includes full text articles from many of Gale's literature series. Useful for HSC English.
Contact details for family history societies in New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia. Produced by the New South Wales Family History Document Service.
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Local councils' community services directories. Mainly for Sydney metropolitan areas, but also contains information of regional or state-wide application in NSW.
A virtual library of all Greek and Latin literature covering over 550 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts. Topics include: epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians. James Loeb founded the Loeb Classical Library in 1911.
A list of ships travelling into Australian and New Zealand waters between 1788 and 1990. Contains information about log book sources and places each ship visited. Files scanned as part of the ACRE (Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions across Earth) data rescue effort.
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Making Multicultural Australia website is currently being developed by the Office of the Board of Studies NSW (OBOS) and the Department of Education and Training (DET). The site will include more than 3000 pages of articles, research, teacher guides, lesson plans, audio interviews, video clips and Australian multicultural artworks. Its major purpose is to assist teachers in developing anti-racist materials for use in many subject areas. New research is being added by Dr Andrew Jakubowicz of the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS).
MAPCO's aim is to provide genealogists, students and historians with free access to high quality scans of rare and beautiful maps. Featuring digital images of maps of London and Adelaide. Maps currently online include London 1767 and 1850 and Adelaide 1880. More maps will be added over the next few months.
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This database contains media contacts and details in Australia for television, radio, newspapers, magazines, newsletters, parliamentary press gallery, multicultural press, and press agencies. Document supply available.
This website, developed by Mary-Anne Warner, covers the movement of mariners and passengers into Sydney from NSW State Records Shipping Inward lists from the Shipping Master's Office.
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This resource contains peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of public international law, published in partnership with the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. The Encyclopedia contains over 1600 articles with new articles commissioned to cover significant developments in international law such as: major new cases before international courts and tribunals, agreement of significant new treaties, and the creation of new international organizations and dispute settlement bodies.Useful for HSC Legal Studies.
Password required ask at desk - Provides contact details and qualifications for doctors practising in Australia. Includes specialists and other healthcare professionals. Can be searched by postcode, language spoken and specialisation. Available on all networked computers in the library, but can only be used by one person at a time.
Metro Magazine, published by the Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM), produces study guides on movies for primary and secondary schools teachers and students.
