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SUBJECT GUIDE TO SPECIAL AND SELECTED RESOURCES

ART
Art cyclopedia - The Fine Art Search Engine.

Harcourt's Guide to Researching Art History Using the Internet.

Oxford Art Online (incl Grove Art Online)
Available from library branches only. See library staff for access.


CONSUMER HELP
Aust. Price Comparison sites
shopbot; getprice; shopferret; ausprices; ozpriceguide.com; pricespy; myshopping; shopmania.

Choice Online
Available from library branches only. See library staff for access.

Governement information on: consumer rights; resolving problems; shopping more safely.
accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/tag/ForConsumers

Use Google maps as a services/product locality guide.

Staysmartonline - helps home & businesses be smart online.



GENEALOGY

Ancestry Library Edition
Available from library branches only. See library staff for access.

Australian War Memorial - Family History Pages.

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites is the most comprehensive.

IHR NSW Family History Document Service
Available from library branches only. See library staff for access.

NSW Births Deaths and Marriages online site.


HEALTH
Consumer Health Complete
Available from Home. Enter your Lake Macquarie library card number.

Google – See “Searches related to:” results at the bottom of health searches.

MIMS - Drug information.
Available from library branches only. See library staff for access.


HISTORY
History & Reference Library
Available from Home. Enter your Lake Macquarie library card number.


IMAGES
Enlarge or reduce images online, to print or save.
shrinkpictures.com

Find images similar to a particular image.
similar-images.googlelabs.com

Refine Search by: Content; Size; Filetype; Colour; Domain.
images.google.com.au

Resize; crop; sharpen; rotate; adjust; black & white; add border.
webresizer.com


JOURNALS
Australian Public Affairs Full Text - current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics and social sciences.
Available from Home. Enter your Lake Macquarie library card number.

Google Scholar - a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.



LAW
ComLaw – All Commonwealth legislation.

Find Legal Answers to everyday questions about the law in NSW

Law Handbook Online
Available from library branches only. See library staff for access.

Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC)

All NSW legislation



LITERATURE
Amazon – in-print books; reviews; lists; readers-who-bought-this info.

Google Books – full text searching of scanned books.

Granger's Poetry Index
Available from selected library branches only. See library staff for access.

Literary Reference Centre
Available from Home. Enter your Lake Macquarie library card number.

Novelist
Available from Home. Enter your Lake Macquarie library card number.

What should I read next – reader recommendations.


NEWS
Fairfax (incl. SMH & Newcastle Herald)

Google News – latest news. Refine by date; source; source location.

Google News Archive - Historical News, including timeline.

News Ltd Newspaper (inc. The Australian)
Available from library branches only. See library staff for access.


REFERENCE
ANZ Reference Centre
Available from Home. Enter your Lake Macquarie library card number.

MasterFILE Premier - 500 full text reference books
Available from Home. Enter your Lake Macquarie library card number.

National Library's Online Guides -- History; Law; Literature; Reference; Science; Statistics.

NSW State Library's Research Guides -- Arts; Business; Convicts; Family History; Health; HSC English; Indigenous Australians; Law; Sport.


SCIENCE
Science Reference Centre
Available from library branches only. See library staff for access.

SCIRUS - scientific research search tool.


STANDARDS
Australian Standards
Available from library branches only. See library staff for access.


STATISTICS
Australian Bureau of Statistics – Census QuickStats; by Local Government; Key National Indicators ; population clock; Australia at a Glance.


TRAVEL
Accomodation finders:
wotif.net.au OR lastminute.com.au

Flights, packages, accommodation, insurance & car hire compared.
http://www.travel.com.au/

Get driving directions via Google maps.

Oxford Art Online - Help Sheet

Resource Name: OXFORD ART ONLINE (incl. Grove Art Online)

1. How do I access this resource?
You can access this from an internet computer at any Lake Macquarie City Library. You can phone ahead to book a computer. Ask the library staff for password access.

2. Is it available from home?
No. This is only available at the Library.

3. Does it have much Australian content?
Australian artists are included. You can search by country of artist.

4. Is there an advanced searching option?
Yes. Click on ‘Advanced Search’ on the main page.
Choose searches from: Main; Image; Biography and Bibliography.
Limit searches by: Full article text; Entry title; Bibliographies; Contributors
Choose which resource:
* Grove Art Online -- Art and Art Forms; Geography; People; Styles and Cultures; or Time Periods
* The Oxford Companion to Western Art
* Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
* The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms

5. For whom would this resource be suitable?
Students and art researchers. Artists. Crafts people.

6. How is this resource unique?
It is authoritative, from scholars around the world in one place. Includes images and links to image collections.

7. What are similar or complementary resources?
Books: McCulloch's encyclopedia of Australian art; Britannica encyclopedia of art; The New York Times guide to the arts of the 20th century; The Book of Art
Online: artcyclopedia.com; Harcourt's Guide to Researching Art History Using the Internet ; NSW State Library Research Guide .

8. What would be sample questions that this resource could answer?
Q. At what internet site might I find a lot of images by Sydney Nolan?
A. 1) Search “Sidney Nolan” in Advanced Images Search; 2) Choose images at external sites.
There is a link to the Tate Collection with 135 works included.

9. What does the search result list show?
The Title of the article and type of entry, with a snippet of text, and the source. You can refine results by type of entry and content.


10. Rate this resource.
This is a high quality site with very reliable and authoritative information about art and artists. It has references to other books, articles and online sources. Recommended for researching art topics in depth.

Latest Popular Books

Thomas Keneally

Rare Schindler's list on display in Sydney
A list of names compiled by German industrialist Oskar Schindler in the final days of World War II is now on display at the New South Wales State Library.

The list has 801 names, ages, nationalities and other details of Jews who Schindler saved from Nazi death camps.

The list, one of a number of lists that Schindler wrote, was hurriedly typed out on 18 April 1945 in the closing days of World War II.

The 13-pages of yellowed paper lay buried for years in a bundle of documents used by New South Wales author Thomas Keneally to write his 1982 Booker Prize-winning Schindler's Ark, which inspired the Oscar-winning movie Schindler's List.

Mr Keneally got the list almost 30 years ago in a shop in Los Angeles, from one of the people whom Schindler helped - Leopold Pfefferberg, Jewish worker 173 on the list.

The author sold his collection of documents and notes to a manuscript dealer, and the library bought the Keneally papers 12 years ago.

State Library historian Olwen Pryke says neither she nor the manuscript dealer knew the copy of the list was hidden amongst Keneally's notes.

None of the originals is still in existence and the Sydney list, on display in the library, is one of only a handful of carbon copies around the world.

Dr Pryke describes the list as one of the most powerful documents of the 20th century.

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Thomas Keneally novels at Lake Macquarie Library
Angel in Australia (aka. Office of innocence)
Bettany's book
Blood red, sister Rose
Bring larks and heroes
By the line
Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Confederates
Dutiful daughter
Family madness
Fear
Flying hero class
Gossip from the forest
Jacko
Office of innocence (aka. An angel in Australia)
Passenger
Playmaker
River town
Schindler's ark (aka. Schindler's list)
Survivor
Three cheers for the Paraclete
Tyrant's novel
Victim of the aurora
Widow and her hero
Woman of the inner sea

Coffee Books and Chat - April 28

2009 Storytime dates

A World of Fairies

Come see our magical display...

Complete idiot's guide to elves and fairies by Sirona Knight.
Dragons, little people, witches, fairies, trolls and elves
Elves & fairies
Faeries
Fairies : celebrations from season to season
Fairy magic
Great encyclopedia of faeries
Imps, demons, hobgoblins, witches, fairies & elves
Lady Cottington's pressed fairy book
Magicians and fairies
Practical guide to faeries by Susan J. Morris
Secret world of the flower fairies
Working with angels, fairies & nature spirits by William Bloom.