Libraries, Museums and Catalogues

Detailed descriptions of events and exhibits from over 3000 museums.

The guide provides information on how to gain access to the Aborigines Welfare Board, Aboriginal Lands Trust and Department of Community Services and Aboriginal Services Branch Records. The guide also lists holdings of records of the Aborigines Welfare Board 1883-1969 and state archives from other government agencies relating to Aboriginal peoples.

These protocols are intended to guide libraries, archives and information services in appropriate ways to interact with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the communities, and handle material with Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander content.

An index to over two thousand periodicals on a broad range of subjects including arts, business, humanities, social sciences, medicine and the sciences. Many of the articles are available in full text. It is produced in the USA.

Academic Search Premier is an academic multi-disciplinary database which provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals, offering information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

Catalogues of archives held across England, dating from the 900s to the present day. Over 250 repositories are covered, including local record offices and libraries, universities, museums and national and specialist institutions.

A British gateway to descriptions of archives in UK universities and colleges.

This site contains guides to the public records of Tasmania. Several of the guides, which cover the Colonial Secretary's Office, the Governor's Office and the Convict Department, can be downloaded. The guides also provide references to a number of original documents which are held in the Mitchell Library at the State Library of New South Wales.

AATA online is a comprehensive database of 100,000 abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage. Registration, which is free, enables visitors to access all the features of this site.

Access the expertise of professional librarians online via live chat. This trial service is available 9 am to 5 pm, Monday to Friday.

A searchable bibliographic database of thousands of hours of oral recordings from 460 oral collections documenting Australian life, customs, politics and traditions and covering a wide range of subjects.

This site provides copyright information via information sheets, books and other publications. It contains details of seminars and training and information on how to obtain copyright advice.

This site provides information about the AIATSIS Library's holdings, facilities, opening hours and contact addresses.

The Australian Libraries Gateway is a directory of more than 5400 Australian libraries. Each listing includes contact details, information about services and links to online catalogues where available. Use this site to find libraries in a geographical area, libraries of a particular type (for example public, university, health), and cultural heritage via on-line exhibitions, events and image collections. Each library listed on the site manages its own details, thus ensuring that information is up-to-date and reliable. The Australian Libraries Gateway is a service of the National Library of Australia.

This bibliographic database indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on library and information science. ALISA attempts to cover comprehensively all current Australian literature on library and information services and the library workforce including education and training; information technology including CD-ROM; networking; electronic publishing; and telecommunications. There are also records relating to Australian children's literature, and archives.

This site provides information on how ALIA works, policy statements, publications, discussions lists, job vacancies and more.

This site provides a directory of more than 900 Australian museums, a searchable collections database of over 350 000 item records from 51 Australian museums and links to Australian and international museums sites. Content from this site is being relocated to Collections Australia network, after which AMOL will be archived and discontinued.

An online gateway for researchers and scholars of labour history, designed to link together historical detail, archival resources, published material and current information about Australian industrial organisations.

A resource encouraging the use and preservation of records relating to women in Australia.

This site provides access to the Library's catalogues of more than 12 million items including books, newspapers, printed music, cartographic items and Asian, Pacific and African collections.

COPAC is a union catalogue providing free access to the merged online catalogues of 24 of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland, plus the British Library and the National Library of Scotland.

A listing of collaborative live reference services: real-time reference services offered by two or more libraries.

The Dewey Decimal Classification system is the world's most widely used library classification system. The publisher's site provides a summary of the subjects from 000-999.

This site, produced by the Australian Society of Archivists, provides details about archival and historical organisations in Australia.

This catalogue combines the Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue with content from Pollard and Redgrave's A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad 1473-1640 and Wing’s A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America and of English Books Printed in Other Countries 1641-1700, as well as newspapers and other serials which began publication before 1801. Its scope extends from the earliest printing in England (ca. 1473) through to the end of December, 1800.

The ESTC can be used to find references to reel numbers in the Eighteenth Century and Early English Books microfilm collections.

'a portal which offers access to the combined resources (books, magazines, journals.... - both digital and non-digital) of the 43 national libraries of Europe. It offers free searching and delivers digital objects - some free, some priced.' The search results tell you which libraries have materials on your topic and link you to each catalog's list of retrieved items.

A guide to employing conservators in Australia, produced by the Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material

A guide to locations of historical records of Australian companies, currently encompassing 2,337 entities with references to 1,396 archival resources and 894 published resources. Changes of company name are provided for some companies.

There is an alphabetical Browse List of all entities or through one of the following 7 categories : Corporate Bodies; Industry Bodies; Partnerships; Pastoral Stations; People; Statutory Authorities; Repositories.

The repository browse allows you to see which business records are held in a particular archive, including Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales.

A guide to more than 80 collections of Australian literary manuscripts in archival institutions.

An index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories.

This site provides links to library catalogues available on the world wide web.

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.

A bibliographic database which indexes articles and book reviews of key library and information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Books, chapters in collected works such as conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets are also indexed.

Full text coverage from selected journals begins in 1998.

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 review, books, book chapters and library school theses.

LISA : Library & Information Science Abstracts is a leading international database for librarianship, information science and related disciplines, covering 550 periodicals, in over 30 languages.

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.

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.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

This American virtual library site provides access to almanacs, speeches, world calendars, encyclopedias, quotations and style guides as well as library resources.

This site provides access to library web sites in more than 90 countries. Search for location, library type or name by keyword

This site (formerly known as the Archives Authority of NSW) contains information on useful resources such as the Colonial Secretary's papers. Several searchable databases can be accessed on this site, including many indexes such as convicts and assisted immigrants, deceased estate files, 19th century child welfare records and naturalisation records.

An index to correspondence of the Colonial Secretary, covering the early administration of the colony of NSW from 1788 to 1825. These papers are held by State Records NSW and include: petitions by convicts for mitigation of their sentences; requests for permission to marry; memorials attesting to the worthy character of potential settlers; applications for land grants or leases; reports on official visits; and information about court cases and lists of assigned servants.

This index itself is primarily a personal one, concentrating on the early inhabitants of Australia - the convicts, settlers, indigenous Australians and colonial officials. However, the index does contain many entries relating to ships, subjects, towns and localities.

There is a subject hierarchy for similar subject terms in the index, as follows: (1) Ships of that name; (2) Places/subjects; and then (3) Individuals. For example:

'RICHMOND'. Convict transport RICHMOND see also HAWKESBURY DISTRICT

RICHMOND

RICHMOND, Magistrates

RICHMOND, Watch House

RICHMOND, George

RICHMOND, John

RICHMOND HILL

RICHMOND ROAD

A 63-fiche version of this index, and copies of the actual Colonial Secretary Papers on 312 microfiche, are available at the ML Information Desk. Copies of the Colonial Secretary Papers are also available on 72 microfilm reels (reels 6001-6072) in the ML Reading Room (MAV/FM4/10243-10314). Copies of these records can also be obtained via the State Records NSW Colonial Secretary Papers copy service.

The National Archives of Australia holds material on immigrants and refugees, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, members of the defence forces, government employees, subjects of surveillance by security and intelligence agencies, or as prisoners of war or internees. Records held by the Archives were generally created after 1901. It does not hold records of convicts, of colonial migration, or of nineteenth century Australian history such as the gold rushes or colonial administration.

This site provides information about genealogical material held in the Archives, including the Ireland–Australia transportation database.

This database covers transportation records of convicts sent from Ireland between 1791 and 1868. Note that all transportation registers prior to 1836 were destroyed. Therefore if the convict was not the subject of a petition prior to this date, they will not appear. The names of the convict family members that came to Australia as free settlers may also be listed. This is an index only. Microfilm copies of the original records are held in the Family History Service at the State Library of NSW. These records were received in 1988 as a gift from Ireland to commemorate the bicentenary of white settlement in Australia.

The National and State Libraries Australasia Honorary Fellowship (NSLA) is the peak body representing state and territory libraries and the National Library throughout Australia.

This site provides descriptions of the holdings of local record offices, national and university libraries, specialist repositories, museums and other bodies in the United Kingdom and abroad. It can be searched by personal names, organisational names and placenames.

This site provides useful ways public libraries can use the Internet.

A centralised register of archival collections in museums, local government bodies, libraries, historical societies, community repositories, and in-house business, educational, religious and sporting archives. NRAM is not a comprehensive database of all archives held in all the country's repositories. Researchers are encouraged to also search the databases of individual repositories (many of which are listed on the NRAM links page) or to forward specific enquiries to repositories likely to hold relevant information.

The Noel Butlin Archives Centre is a nationally significant collection of primary source material relating to business and labour. The NBAC holds archives of industrial organisations, businesses, professional associations, industry bodies and the labour movement. It makes them available for research and use by the University and the wider community.

The Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, known as Pambu, was formed in 1968 to copy archives, manuscripts and rare printed material relating to the Pacific Islands. The Bureau is based in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University and is sponsored by a number of libraries in Australia, New Zealand and the USA specializing in Pacific research, including the State Library of NSW.

This archive currently consists of over 3,300 rolls of microfilm and related published indexes and now collects recorded audio interviews, oral histories and speeches. Complete sets of the microfilms and audio recordings are held in the major Pacific research libraries which sponsor the Bureau, including the State Library of NSW.

There is an online PMB catalogue to this collection, an online Guide to the microfilmed records of the Catholic Church in islands of the Western Pacific , a Sample Catalogue of South Seas Photograph Collections , the beginnings of an online Pambu digital photograph collection, a Shineberg Database of Indentured Labourers in New Caledonia and the Bureau's newsletter Pambu which began in 1968 and is available online from November 1995.

This site provides links to information about the Australian Federal Parliament. It provides links to current and historical parliamentary information, an index of the library's publications, and links to ‘hot topics’ and an Internet links guide.

Information about New South Wales parliamentary and political facts and access to an index of NSW parliamentary publications. It also provides information about current affairs and briefing papers.

This site provides a complete listing of the Library's holdings by title or agency.

This is an abridged, online version of a print volume by Diana Hacker.An annotated list of specialized sources for more than 30 disciplines. The resources are organized by type, databases and indexes, Web resources, and reference books under four main categories: Humanities, Social Sciences, History, and Sciences. Includes tips for evaluating sources, guidelines for documenting print and online sources, style manuals and sample papers. Note that many of these databases are available at the State Library of NSW

The State Reference Library catalogue covering up to 1980.

The Scottish Archive Network (SCAN) provides an electronic catalogue of the holdings of more than 50 Scottish archives, and access to digitised historical records such as court records, tax records, emigration records, and poor relief records. Also provides family history guides and research tools.

The Southern Cross Resource Finder (SCRF) is a web-based resource that enables users to discover collections from British libraries, archives and museums which hold resources useful for the study of Australia and New Zealand. It has been produced by and is maintained by the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College London.

Search a network of more than 100 TAFE libraries in NSW.

This site provides details of holdings of archival records relating to the New England region of New South Wales.

Trove provides integrated access from a range of the National Library's collaborative services and from elsewhere:

• Libraries Australian / Australian National Bibliographic Database

• Picture Australia

• Australian Research Online

• Music Australia

• The Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts

• Australia Dancing

• Australian Dictionary of Biography Online

• Australian Mines Atlas

• Australian Newspapers

• Australian Women's Register

• Collections Australia Network (CAN)

• The National Library of Australia's manuscript finding aids

• PANDORA - archived copies of Australian websites

• OAIster

• Open Library - online public domain books

• Hathi Trust - online public domain books

• The Internet Archive - online public domain books

• The Library of Congress tables of contents and sample book chapters

• Wikipedia (keywords/tags associated with books)

Search personal and organisational archives, including diaries, manuscripts, letters, business records, photographs, posters, pamphlets, ephemera, etc. Information sourced from Libraries Australia, Music Australia and OAIster.

A selective archive of significant British websites.

A gateway to archives around the world. Search by country, region, keyword, and type of archive, such as national, regional, university, business and labour, military, parliamentary, religious, family, architectural, women, and literature and arts.

The Wayback Machine, a service from the Internet Archive and Alexa Internet, allows people to access and use archived versions of stored websites. Visitors to the Wayback Machine can type in an URL, select a date, and then begin surfing on an archived version of the web.

WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center on behalf of its member libraries and searches the collections of over 10,000 libraries and some 1.2 billion items from around the world.

You can search for books, foreign language material, music CDs, videos, digital content (such as downloadable audiobooks), article citations (with links to their full text), authoritative research materials (such as documents and photos of local or historic significance) and digital versions of rare items that aren't available to the public.

WorldCat allows you find an item of interest and then locate library/s that own it. Usually you will link directly to the item record on that particular library's website.

Also, on the WorldCat page for a particular item, you can enter a rating and review under the 'Reviews' tab and contribute factual notes or a book's table of contents under the 'Details' tab. Note that only you can modify or delete your own review, but other users can edit information that has been contributed under Details (similar to Wikipedia).

Although the basic item identifying information on the website can fulfill most needs, WorldCat at your library includes extra features such as: Advanced search; 'Find similar items'; and Links to published reviews and excerpts.