Electronic resources beginning with ‘L’

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.

This site provides a list of definitions of Australian slang words and phrases.

The Lawcodes database contains information

on common codes to describe offences in New South Wales - produced by the Judicial Commission of New South Wales.

An encylopaedia to Australian law, providing an introduction to key areas and concepts.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormons), collect many records of interest to the family history researchers. Their family history centres are open to the public at no charge. Search the database to find a centre near to you.

Learning Curve is a free online resource for teaching and learning history. Teachers will find original documents, photographs and film from The National Archives, supported with background information, worksheets and lesson plans.

Students will find games and activities for thinking and learning about Britain's past, and advice on studying and revision.

Notes on cases relating to anti-discrimination law. Originally published in the Equal Time newsletter.

State Library subscription includes FirstPoint, Laws of Australia and Criminal Law (NSW). Formerly called Lawbook Online.

Includes a large number of Australian Law Journals. Topics covered include: Administrative Law, Antitrust Legislation, Banking, Constitutional Law, Domestic Relations, Environmental Protection, Estate Planning, Food, Drug & Cosmetic Law, International Law, Labor Law, Landlord/Tenant Decisions, Malpractice Suits, Minorities, Multinational Corporations, Negligence, Non-Profit Corporations, Occupational Health & Safety, Politics, Probate, Products Liability, Public Law, Real Property, Securities, Tax Law, Trade Regulation

Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text is a bibliographic database that cites articles from legal periodicals and indexes law books. Full text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Periodical coverage includes law reviews, bar association journals, university publications, yearbooks, institutes, and government publications. Index to Legal Periodicals & Books covers all areas of jurisprudence, including recent court decisions, new legislation, and original scholarship.

Available electronically from 2007 onwards in LIAC. Some issues are also available through Pandora - Australia's web archive, National Library of Australia.

LegendCom is the Department of Immigration's online database that contains a current library of all Migration legislation, the Procedures Advice Manual,Migration Series Instructions. This database also contains a historical library of all these documents. Please contact the Information desk for cheat sheets.

Provides links to legislation including Commonwealth, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, Western Australia, ACT, NT, Tas and International.

Search for an Australian case in Australian Law Reports, New South Wales Law Reports, Unreported Judgments and CaseBase.

LexisNexis Statistical contains abstracts of statistical publications from 1980 to the present and the full text of selected publications from 1995 forward. It indexes documents produced by the U.S. government, major international intergovernmental organisations, professional and trade organisations, commercial publishers, independent research organisations, state government agencies, and universities.

A suite of datatases comprising - Casebase, Australian Current Law, Butterworths Unreported Judgements, Halsbury's Laws of Australia, AustralianEncyclopaedic Legal Dictionary, College of Law Practice Papers, Australian Encylopaedia of Forms & Precedents, Wills Probate & Administration Service, Ritchie's Uniform Civil Procedure, Local Court Criminal Practice, Local Government Planning & Environment Service, Australian Law Reports and New South Wales Law Reports.

This search template lists all the online resources that the State Library subscribes to from LexisNexis.

LGBT Life® 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 site provides links to library catalogues available on the world wide web.

Links page to a selection of websites on evolution. Contains a range of views on evolutionary theory including proponents of Intelligent Design

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. Also includes text versions.

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

Includes historical as well as technical information and photographs of lighthouses around Australia. Includes links to international lighthouse websites. Includes an accommodation guide for Australian Lighthouses.

Lightning Bug was conceived to help young adults engage with story writing. Written with a focus on fostering inspiration, finding voice, developing structure and encouraging an interest in writing. The site is intended to be a writing companion. It is intended to be useful to confident literate young writers, and to those less sure of their writing abilities.

A calendar to find years that have the same day-of-week to date relationship as a given year. Indicate a year, and a list of years that have the same days of week for each date will be given.

(Data Diction, Australia)

Support groups and other community services in NSW.

Gale has created this list of direct links to HSC texts for users of the online database Literature Resource Centre. Can only be used in conjunction with subscribers/users of LRC. For information on accessing this database from home contact your local library or see our Databases page.

Literary Reference Center contains full text for plot summaries, synopses and work review, articles/essays of literary criticism, author biographies, literary journals, book reviews, classic and contemporary poems, classic and contemporary short stories, author interviews, classic texts, etc. It also includes Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Beacham's Research Guide to Biography and Criticism, The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, The Literary Encyclopedia, The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story, MagillOnLiterature Plus, etc.

Literature Resource Centre 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.

Registration details of shipping, transcribed from the Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping from 1764 up to 2003 by Gilbert Provost with assistance from Pauline Joicey.

Vessel details can include rigging, tonnage, dimensions, propulsion, owners, port of registry, port of survey, voyage and the vessel's Master. New vessels are being continuously added.

A step-by-step guide to the practice and procedure in criminal matters in local

court. It provides a comprehensive commentary on both the law and practice of

the Local Courts of NSW. The process of running criminal matters before a

magistrate from the point of arrest through to sentencing, costs and appeals are

thoroughly explained. Published by Lexis Nexis

Contact details for family history societies in New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia. Produced by the New South Wales Family History Document Service.

This volume is a detailed guide to local government law in New South Wales. It contains the full text of the Local Government Act 1993 and also includes Regulations, Cognate Legislation and Related Legislation.

Search template allows user to search across all three volumes concurrently.

Contains the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 and related regulations, the State Environmental Planning Policies (SEPPs) and a list of the Regional Environmental Plans. Also legislation relating to coastal protection and heritage, clean water and air, noise pollution and waste control, native vegetation, threatened species and the Land and Environment Court of NSW.

A comprehensive guide to NSW local government law, including analysis of key legislation and caselaw.

Local councils' community services directories. Mainly for Sydney metropolitan areas, but also contains information of regional or state-wide application in NSW.

The Official site of the organising committee for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, England.

.This 2003 CDROM is a fascimile of an 1887 1,500-page publication by Joseph Foster which gives details of London marriages for the period 1521 to 1868.

The original 1887 book 'London Marriage Licences, 1521-1869' is held in SRL stack at DS929.3/54

This site provides information about travel. It contains information about Lonely Planet guidebooks and some full text information about destinations.

This site provides the daily news stories and the sports, business and classified sections of the newspaper.

The Los Angeles Times (1881-1986) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Check current and historical results for NSW lotteries, Lotto, Powerball etc