World Vision School resources site

World Vision have a school resource website area, it includes secondary resources on global issues such as Trade Aid, Children, Poverty, War and 2 page country profiles on developing countries around the world... take a look as
http://worldvision.com.au/learn/schoolResources
Louise

Journeys - ideas lists

I have put 3 booklists on the desktop on the PC near the phone - they give ideas for English students who want ideas on what to read or watch for Imaginative Journeys, Inner Journeys and Physical Journeys. These will eventually be on the HSC website as well. Any more ideas for these lists please let me know, am particularly after any fiction that could be used for inner journeys.
Louise

Primary Sources for opening of Sydney Harbour Bridge

Over the past week there have been a number of students seeking primary sources relating to the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Primary source articles can be found in the reference title:

R 079.94/Tel Over One Hundred & Fifteen years of news from the Daily Telegraph Mirror.

Also it is worth while suggesting that students join the State Library of NSW (this can be done online) which will then allow them access to the Times Digital Archive database. This is a brilliant resource for those seeking primary source material and in this instance provides numerous full text articles.

Other useful sites:

City Of Sydney Council History of the Sydney Harbour Bridge
Australian Government Cultural and recreation Portal; Sydney Harbour Bridge
Daily Telegraph Celebrating 75 years of the Sydney Harbour Bridge
National Centre for History Education: Includes primary sources; workers comments.
Sydney Morning Herald 1932 article: Bridge sensation: de Groot beats Premier to the ribbon

NoveList

This database will be part of the NSWnet collection of databases from 1st Sept 2007. At Manly we have access through ANZRC from our on-line databases page. This site comes highly recommended. Strenuous lobbying from Readers Advisory groups ensured it made the list, and it does deserve to be there.

Pros: easy to use/navigate; heaps of useful information; can search by author, title, subject, series; can limit searches by size of book, level of reading and much more; author read-alikes; info for kids; questions with answers for book groups; support for readers advisory staff ; saves lists, print friendly & email
Cons: American bias. Not a lot of Australian content, however they do have list of Miles Franklin Award winners. Readers Advisory Group is currently
working on improving Australian content and looking for contributors.

DO TAKE A LOOK!!

Women in Ancient Rome

I had an enquiry regarding the role of Women in Ancient Rome. The client had checked the loan material at 937 however; she required further detail. The following resources were extremely useful:

• ABI/inform and Masterfile premier:(database) using the search descriptors woman AND roman civilization (LSU({WOMEN}) AND LSU({ROMAN CIVILIZATION})). This search retrieved 139 full text articles.
• World History Ancient and Medieval Eras (database)
• R700.9 /ART Arts & Humanities Through the Ages. Discussed womans contribution to the Arts and humanities during the Roman period.
• R390 GRE Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life.
• R355.02/ WOM. Women at War
• R937/BAN Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire

Legal Studies Years 11 and 12

Material for Year 11 Legal Studies students has been loaded on to the LIAC website
www.liac.sl.nsw.gov.au/stduents/hsc.cfm
Most Year 11 students will be researching topics like women, Aboriginals and migrants - at the start of term 4 these students will become new Year 12's studying Crime or Human Rights
Any Year 12's coming in to review material before their HSC exam can be referred to
www.liac.sl.nsw.gov.au/studnets/
Info as supplied by Sarah Condie at LIAC, posted by Louise

Gold Rush Australia

Following information will direct you to resources in the library focusing on the Gold Rush in Australia.





Books

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Reference Books







Databases







Websites



The Australian Gold Rush - Stories from Australia's Culture Portal

Australian Government Culture and Recreation Portal
An article about the gold rushes of the nineteenth century which had a huge effect on the Australian economy and our development as a nation.

Sovereign Hill Education Center (Selection of related PDFS)

Notes for Primary Students
Gold! Gold! Properties and Uses (pdf)The Great Irish Famine -1846 (pdf)A Safe Passage (pdf)Golden Literature. Quotes from the gold fields (pdf)The Chinese (pdf)1850s School Life (pdf)

Notes for Secondary Students
Click on the links to download files in Microsoft Word or pdf

Ballarat's Indigenous Heritage (pdf)Law and Order on the Goldfields (pdf)The Discovery of Gold in Australia (pdf)Eureka (Word)Life on the Goldfields (pdf)Women on the Goldfields (pdf)Transport in the 1850s (pdf)Mining Technology (pdf)The Chinese in Ballarat (pdf)Primary Sources - Goldfields Quotes

Events (history, impact and stakeholders) assignment

The Int College students are doing an assignment where they choose one of a list of 20 events, have to find out about the history of, the impact of, the stakeholders and LOTS of details about, did Cannes film festival with one student (mainly from refbooks and french travel books) then with another student did Running the Bulls from Spanish books, the Hemingway link and some recent database anti-stuff. I gave up on one of the selections which was the impact of Wimbledon on Australian tennis. Louise

Encyclopedia of Holidays and Celebrations

The Encyclopedia of Holidays and Celebrations; A country by Country Guide on the shelf.
The easy to use three volume set provides a country by country overview of the major holidays, festivals, and rights of passage in 206 countries. The entries for each country include a general overview and subsections on holidays, religious holidays, regional holidays, and rites of passage; origins and rituals; and further reading. There are also numerous photographs and side bar entries with interesting cultural facts supplementing every country entry. The first two volumes are organized alphabetically by country whilst the third volume provides in depth articles on religious festivals and a listing of holidays by country. This title caters specifically to secondary students and general interest enquiries and is highly recommended for the Public Library sector.
The Encyclopedia of Holidays and Festivals is published by Facts on File, (2006) isbn 0-8160-6235-8.