Wollongong City Library: Library WebLinks: Weblinks Categories

Arts

All Crafts - Your guide to all crafts - patterns, projects, books and kits

Architecture - Information from Architectural Record

AusStage : Gateway to the Australian performing Arts - AusStage provides an accessible research facility for investigating live performance in Australia.

Australian Composers - Includes biographical information on Australian Composers

Australian Dance Collection

Australian Film Institute

Australian Music

Australian Music Centre - The aim of this site is to facilitate and encourage the creation, performance and understanding of music by Australian composers and sound artists

Australian Recording Industry Association - Details about the Australian recording industry. Includes ARIA Awards and ARIA Charts.

Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music - Offers over 4,500 entries on music, musical instruments and musicians

Cartoon research - Lots of information about cartoons, from a list of cartoon features that spans decades to leader cards of classic cartoon shorts to trailers of current/upcoming cartoons and cartoon trivia

Classical.com - The world’s largest online classical music collection

Collections Australia Network - Allows the public to search collection records from libraries, galleries, museums and archives all across Australia through a single search.

Coomaditchie aboriginal artists - Authentic Australian Aborginal Artworks from the Coomaditchie United Aboriginal Corporation

Crochet Pattern Central - An online directory of free crochet pattern links

Dance Resources, Ballet Resources

Database of Monologues and Scenes - Over 540 monologues and scenes from films, plays, televisions, and books. Out of respect for copyright the full material is not available for all monologues/scenes, but more than enough information is available for you to find the scene elsewhere.

earlycinema.com - an introduction to the first decade of motion pictures. This site focuses on the early pioneers and the technology which helped shape film history.

Great Buildings Online - This gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famo

Hollywood Online

LiveGuide - Showcasing over 3500 events weekly, LiveGuide.com.au delivers the most comprehensive "what's on" content for music, arts, theatre, sports and entertainment events.

Masters of Cinema - Quality information about foreign films and classics of various cinematic movements. Includes links to information about DVD releases and reviews, directors and online cinema writing

Movie Posters Archive - A collection of movie posters, mainly from 2000 onwards.

Music Australia - The MusicAustralia pilot service includes digitised printed music, digitised sound recordings, 'born digital' music scores and multimedia presentations

Musica Viva - Founded in 1945, Musica Viva is Australia’s oldest independent professional performing arts organisation, and seeks to connect audiences with chamber music, inspiring personal fulfilment and cultural vibrancy.

Musicals101.com - The Cyber Encyclopedia of Musical Theatre, TV and Film

musictheory.net - Musictheory.net contains over 30 interactive lessons on such topics as the triad inversion, major scales, key changes, and diatonic seventh chords.

Postcard & Greeting Card Museum - Enjoy your virtual tour while learning about the history of Postcards and Greeting Cards from Victorian times to the 20th century

Quilt Index - An online research and reference tool designed to provide access to contextual information and images of quilts held in private and public collections.

Singer-songwriter Directory - find links to sites dedicated to singer/songwriters, to official home pages as well as fan sites, to well known artists and starting musicians.

Songfacts - Song meanings, lyrics and trivia.

Sydney's Early Constructions and Heritage Properties - An overview of early building construction methods in Sydney, including heritage properties. Covers time periods 1840-1900 and 1900-1930.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Internet Movie Database

The Music Lists - Lists of the greatest rock guitar riffs, rock drummers, motown songs, rock songwriters etc

The Oxford Dictionary of Art - One-volume guide to the art of the Western world.

The Red Hot Jazz Archive - The Archive is primarily concerned with documenting the world of early jazzmen, so visitors will find ample information on Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Kid Ory, Bunk Johnson, and many others.

Theatre Australia - A forum for everyone with an interest in Australian theatre. Includes links to theatre companies and venues throughout Australia.

theatrecrafts.com - Provides practical information and advice about technical theatre techniques for theatre folk at any level.

TheatreHistory.com

Timeline of art history - A chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection

Vintage Sewing - Offers free online access to public domain sewing books.

Web Gallery of Art - Contains over 11,000 digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between the years 1150 and 1800

WebMuseum

Wollongong City Gallery

World Wide Arts Resources

Australia

Australian Geographic Place Names (Gazetteer)

Australian National Security - Provides a single access point for national security information from the Australian Government.

Australian Policy Online - A news service and library specialising in Australian public policy reports and articles from academic research centres, think tanks, government and non-government organisations.

Australian Population Clock - The estimated resident population of Australia at any given time.

Australian Towns Index

Australian Word Map - Word Map is mapping Australian regionalisms - words, phrases or expressions used by particular language groups.

culture.gov.au - Connecting you with Australian culture and recreation online

Guide to Australia

Oz Tourism - Provides Australian holiday planners with an overview of what they can expect to find and an introduction to the major attractions and activities throughout all the states.

Banking & Finance

ATM Locator - Locations of automated teller machines (ATMs) in more than 170 countries.

Australian Taxation Office - Tax information for individuals, Companies and organisations, from the Tax Department of the Australian Federal Government

Free tax help now available - Volunteers trained by the Tax Office are now available in your area to help low income earners prepare their tax returns

Home Loan Calculator - From Mortgage Choice.

How Swiss Bank Accounts Work - This article aims to dispel myths propagated in popular culture about the operation of Swiss bank accounts. From HowStuffWorks.

Individuals superannuation essentials - This Tax Office site provides detailed information on superannuation for individuals.

RateCity - Lets you find,compare and purchase financial products from hundreds of Australian banks and institutions. Covers credit cards,home loans and more.

Reserve Bank of Australia - Notes in Circulation - This site provides information and images of our notes, including design elements and biographical details of the Australians portrayed on our notes.

Superannuation Calculator - This calculator can help you estimate how much Super you will have when you retire, based on your current situation.

Books & Journals

Abebooks.com - The world's largest online marketplace for books

AddALL Used and Out of Print book search

Alibris - Shop for rare, out-of-print or hard to find books - books you thought you'd never find

Amazon Bookshop - buy books, music, videos etc from this US site.

Angus & Robertson - buy books from this Australian bookseller.

Australian Booksellers - Independent site designed to promote Booksellers from Australia

Australian Journals - a listing of over 1,700 Australian electronic journals, magazines, webzines, newsletters and e-mail fanzines. It includes both local and overseas works with Australian content, authorship and/or emphasis.

Australian Periodical Publications 1840-1845

Australian Women's Weekly Bookclub

Award Winners & Bestsellers - Lists of award winning books and Canadian and U.S. bestsellers.

Bartleby.com - great books online.

Bibliofind - Bibliofind has combined with Amazon.com to provide millions of rare, used, and out-of-print books through the world's No.1 online bookstore.

BibliOz.com - search this Australian database to locate out-of-print titles.

Book Clubs - Wollongong City Library - Book discussion groups are currently running at various Wollongong Libraries. To find out more about joining one of these groups or to get a list of what the groups are reading please speak to staff at the library.

Book Reporter - Books into Movies - Lists of books which have been made into movies.

BookBrowse.com - Bookbrowse carefully selects from the most interesting current books and provides you with multiple reviews and a substantial excerpt of each

BookCrossing - Free your books! BookCrossing.com gives you a simple way to share books with the world, and follow their paths forever!

BookFinder.com - search for out of print and used books.

Boomerang Books - A small Adelaide-based business that aims to provide books at discounted prices, with a particular emphasis on Australian books.

Children's Books Online - The largest collection of illustrated antique children's books on line

ClassicBookshelf.com - access to the large collection of public domain e-texts available for free over the Internet.Featuring Java TM Powered reading applet, words are presented in customizable sizes and colours to suit you.

Digital media locator - search a database of thousands of eBooks - includes reviews, excerpts and author biographies

Directory of Open Access Journals - This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals

Dymocks Booksellers - buy books in Australia.

FindArticles.com - magazine articles including full text. Search in this free online article-search service.

First Choice Books - Lists of reading suggestions. Choose the type of books you are interested in and then click on the list or on any of the images.

Gleebooks

Good Reading - Book reviews and star ratings, suggested titles, discussion notes and useful information for reading groups, first chapters,forums for discussion and more

HighWire Press - free on-line full text journal articles, mainly medical/health.

International Children’s Digital Library - Hundreds of books online with virtually every culture and language represented so that every child can know and appreciate the riches of children’s literature from the world community.

January Magazine - best of fiction, crime and many other categories of books

Just Free Books - Searches the content of more than 450 web sites to find public domain texts, open books, free audio books, ad-supported books and more.

LitLovers - An online community dedicated to books and book clubs—because both enrich our lives.

MagPortal.com - search for magazine articles.

New York Times Book Reviews

Online Books Page - Listing over 20,000 free books on the We

Online Bookstores in Australia - A list of Australian based online bookstores.

Open J-Gate - 3000 + open access journals

Ozebooks.com.au - The Australian eBook Library

Page by Page Books - Hundreds of classic books online for free

PANDORA Archive - Australian publications of national significance.

Project Gutenberg - Full text books in electronic format.

QBD The Bookshop - A privately owned company comprising of 31 stores within Australia.

Reader's Refuge Online Bookstore - New books at secondhand prices

Record King Bookshop - Located in Wollongong, NSW Australia, we are dealers in rare and secondhand books and vinyl records

Rosemary's Romance Books - Specialises in all the sub-genres found within Romance Fiction.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Book List Site - A comprehensive bibliography of science-fiction and fantasy authors and their books. The database also contains links to official and fan sites of various authors.

SciFan - Books and links for the Science Fiction Fan

SETIS - a selection of scholarly texts from the University of Sydney Library.

Shakespeare - The complete works of William Shakespeare online

Stop, You’re Killing Me! - A resource for lovers of mystery, crime, thriller, spy, and suspense books.

The Booklist Center - The web's largest selection of booklists

The Coop BookShop - Australia's First Online Academic and General Bookshop.

The Internet Classics Archive - select from a list of 441 works, mainly Greco-Roman with some Chinese

Websites for Fiction Readers - Wollongong City Library's list of links for the avid reader

WH Smith (UK) - buy books, videos, cds, games.

Whichbook - this site gives readers an enjoyable and interesting way to find books to match their mood. Just choose from a variety of options and see what titles are suggested.

Wollongong UniShop

Business

ABI/Inform: ProQuest - The world's leading database of electronic business and management journals. (Use the barcode from your library card to log in)

ABN Lookup - search for an ABN, apply for an ABN, change your details.

Advertising Federation of Australia - Includes information on advertising codes and regulations

ASIC Australian Securities & Investment Commission - search their databases. Find basic details about current and former companies, business names and other organisations

ASIC Australian Securities & Investments Commission - Company and company names information

AusIndustry - Commonwealth Government's agency for delivering products, services and information that support industry, research and innovation

Austrade

Australia and the OECD - A one-stop-shop for OECD reports and statistics on Australia.

Australian Competition & Consumer Commission - Includes the Mergers and Acquisitions Register

Australian Financial Review - business

Australian Stock Exchange - market news.

Australian Stock Exchange - market statistics, company research, markets, shareholder information.

Business Dictionary - Over 20,000 definitions

Business Review Weekly - full-text back copies from 1998 to the current issue.

business.gov.au - Simple and convenient access to all the government information, transactions and services you need

e-commerce-guide.com - Aim is to provide the single best source of independent, up-to-date information about electronic commerce.

Economist.com - Research tools - Includes a searchable dictionary of economics

European Business Directory

Flat Chat - Flat Chat is a column that appears every weekend in the Domain section of the Sydney Morning Herald, and is about strata apartment living specifically but not exclusively in NSW, Australia.

Franchise Council of Australia - The Franchise Directory plus information and advice on franchising

Glossary of business and financial terms - Glossary of more than 2,500 terms related to business and finance

Hoover's Online- USA

International Business Resource Desk - Thousands of international business resources.

Investopedia - An online stock and financial dictionary with a number of other investing links and tips.

IP Australia Home Page - Intellectual Property information including patents, trademarks, designs and copyright

Kompass Online - Product, contact and other information for 1.8 million companies worldwide

NSW Dept of Fair Trading - The Department of Fair Trading provides information and assistance for consumer issues, motor vehicles, home building and renovation, credit, property and tenancy issues, plus co-operatives, licensing, associations and business name registration.

NSW Dept of State & Regional Development - The New South Wales Department of State and Regional Development (DSRD) is the first point of contact within government for companies wishing to do business in Sydney and regional New South Wales (NSW).

NSW Dept of State and Regional Development - Help for Business

NSW Small Business Web site - issues, resources, news

Property Council of Australia - Includes CyberStats - a free statistical resource providing up-to-date property and economic data

realestate.com.au - Includes listings of properties sold throughout Australia

Reuters Business News - International Business news from Wall Street City.

Thomas Register of American Manufacturers

Computing

AlltheWeb - A World-wide Search Engine

Alta Vista Australia

Anzwers Australia and NZ

Ask for Kids - Kids Search Tool

Ask.com - A Meta Search Engine (Searches multiple search engines at once)

Australian Communications and Media Authority - Responsible for the regulation of broadcasting, radiocommunications, telecommunications and online content

Clusty - the clustering search engine - A Meta Search Engine (Searches multiple search engines at once)

Cnet.com - CNET provides expert and unbiased advice on technology products and services

CompletePlanet - There are hundreds of thousands of databases that contain Deep Web content. CompletePlanet is the front door to these Deep Web databases on the Web.

Computer Science - Computer science links in a variety of categories

ComputerBank Illawarra - ComputerBank is a not for profit, non government, volunteer based organisation which provides free basic computer systems to disadvantaged individuals, families, and community groups.

ComputerUser.com

Cuil - A search engine

Dogpile - A Meta Search Engine (Searches multiple search engines at once)

Domain Names

ecards.ac - Allows you to email free musical, animated eCards - includes birthday, anniversary and valentine's cards.

Excite - A World-wide Search Engine

Experts Exchange - the #1 Knowledge Sharing Community on the Web

Facebook 101: Ten Things You Need to Know About Facebook - Information about the social networking site, Facebook.

facesaerch - An image search engine for faces powered by Google

Fasteagle - Easy navigation across hundreds of the most popular and useful websites

Finding Information on the Internet - a tutorial

Flickr - Website for people to store, search, sort and share photos.

Getting started with Excel - Excel tutorial rounded out by several assignments that will make sure students have mastered some of the basic features of Excel

Google Australia

History of the Internet - Discusses the history of computers, the World Wide Web, search engines and more with some pictures and diagrams

Hotbot - A World-wide Search Engine

How to Digitize an LP - Converting music on a phonograph record to electronic files ready for upload

In Pictures - Free, easy-to follow illustrated tutorials for software and computer subjects

Internet country codes - This site provides a list of Internet country codes.

Keyboard tutorial

Kids' Search Tools

kids.net.au - A Kids Search Tool

KidsClick! - Kids Search Tool

KillerInfo - A Meta Search Engine (Searches multiple search engines at once)

Librarians Index to the Internet - Computers

Life Beyond Google: Some of the Best of the Rest - Google is still the behemoth of search engines, but there is a plethora of alternative search engines that provide features not readily available on Google.

Living Internet - An elegantly organized tour of the history of the Internet -- both fun and informative -- a rare combination

MetaCrawler - A Meta Search Engine (Searches multiple search engines at once)

Mouse Tutorial - Welcome to the City of Mesa Library's Computer Mouse and Keyboard Tutorial

NetLingo: The Internet Language Dictionary - This online dictionary contains definitions of hundreds of words that are emerging as a new vocabulary surrounding the technology and community of the Internet

New Launches - New technology and gadgetry.

Newbie's Guide to Twitter - An introduction to Twitter, a real-time messaging system for groups and friends.

ninemsn

PC World Online - PC World is a widely read computer magazine which includes reviews and rankings of software and new technologies.

Pipl - Search by first and last name, city, state, and country to obtain links to sites with information about individuals.

Remindr - A free service that sends you a reminder by email, telephone and other technical applications.

Science Podcasts - Science podcasts from ABC Science Online and Radio National

Search.com - A Meta Search Engine (Searches multiple search engines at once)

SearchBoth - Search both Google & Yahoo at the same time side by side, and more.

Smart Online Safe Offline - A unique, non-profit social initiative bringing together the community and the digital media industry as partners to deliver online campaigns, aimed at educating young internet users about the dangers in their online environment.

Stay Smart Online - Stay Smart Online is designed to provide all Australian online users with practical tips and advice on e-security.

TechWeb Technology Encyclopedia - Over 20,000 definitions of technology terms and concepts.

TechWeb: the IT network

The Newbie Guide to Blogging - Tips on how to blog and how blogging can help you.

Typing Exercise - This web page gives you quick, useful practice in developing your typing skills.

UserNameCheck - Interested in quickly checking if the username(s) you want are available for nearly 70 web sites and tools? Simply enter the username you’re looking for and within seconds you’ll see (look below the icons) if that username is available. A real timesaver!

Virus encyclopedia - All about internet security

Virus Information Library

Web 2.0 News - Up to date news articles about Web 2.0 from Google News

Web 2.0 Resources - Access to sites that focus on Web 2.0 technologies and applications.

web wombat - The orginal Australian search engine

Webopedia - Online dictionary and search engine for computer and Internet technology

whatis?com - A search engine

Wi Fi Hotspot Directory - Search over 200,000 Wi-Fi hotspots in 135 countries

Yahoo - Australia and New Zealand

Yahoo Kids

Your Guide to Podcasts - A basic introduction to Podcasts and Podcasting from the weblog MediaShift.

YouTube - Article from Wikipedia on YouTube, a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips.

Databases

Subscription Databases - Access to the Library's broad range of subscription databases

Education

Aussie SchoolHouse - The Aussie SchoolHouse provides participants with opportunities for life-long learning. The Aussie SchoolHouse is a virtual meeting place where people of all ages and backgrounds can build communities, collaborate, interact, develop, publish, and discover resources.

Australasian Digital Theses Program - The aim of the ADTP is to establish a distributed database of digital versions of theses produced by the postgraduate research students at Australian universities.

Australian Schools Directory

Australian Technical Colleges

Australian Universities - A list of Australian Universities with links to their home pages

Board of Studies NSW - HSC

Board of Studies NSW - School Certificate Page - School Certificate external exam papers (English, Maths, Science), Syllabuses, Performance Descriptors etc

BRAINTRACK University Index - The world's most complete education index

EdNA Online - a service that aims to support and promote the benefits of the Internet for learning, education and training in Australia. It is organised around Australian curriculum.

Educator's Reference Desk - Includes a link to the ERIC database. ERIC is the world's largest source of education information, with more than 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice

ERIC - Education Resource Information Centre - The new ERIC online system provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966.

Finding a public school - school locator

GoAbroad.com - study abroad, volunteer, teach

Higher Education - Higher education policy issues, resources and programmes from the Dept Education, Science and Training

Internet Schools Directory - A Directory of non-Government schools in Australia

K-6 Education Resources - Board of Studies - Education resources for Australian teachers and students - Kindergarten to Year 6

List of registered non-government schools in NSW

My School - Provides detailed information about almost 10,000 schools in Australia. From the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA).

NSW Dept of Education & Training - Information about schools, TAFE, adult & higher education & training

NSW Dept of Education & Training - Public Schools NSW

Open Universities Australia - Open Universities Australia (formerly OLA) provides distance education to tertiary students

OZJAC - A database to help you find out about courses: where they are offered, what subjects you can study, how to get in, who to contact, what jobs they lead to.
[ Available only in the Reference Library. Please ask staff for details.]

Postgraduate Scholarships Database for Australia - JASON is a search engine that contains information about postgraduate scholarships. The scholarships in the database apply to Australian students wishing to study at home or abroad, and to international students wishing to study in Australia

Private schools directory - Welcome to the most respected and comprehensive online directory to Australian Private schools

TAFE - Information, locations, courses & the latest handbook

U3A Online - Universities of the Third Age, particularly those in Australia and New Zealand.

UAC - Universities Admissions Centre - Admissions information and UAC publications to download

University of Wollongong

WEA Illawarra - lots of local courses to attend during the day and after-hours. Enrol on-line.

E-Mail

Gmail - Web based email.

Harness E-Mail - How email works and how to use it

Hotmail - very popular - Web based e-mail

Lycos Mail - Web based e-mail

Mail.com - Web-based email

net.Tutor:E-Mail Basics

Types of Email service - How to choose the right type of email service

What's email?

Yahoo! Mail - Web based e-mail

Employment

artshub Australia - Australia's only comprehensive arts jobs information service, and authoritative and independent arts news outlet

Australian Apprenticeships - Information about finding and applying for apprenticeships

bluecollar.com.au - Australia's blue collar job search site

Career FAQs - Career FAQs is the home of quality, fact-filled career resources.

career.com.au - Find a job, post your resume online

careerjet.com.au - Careerjet is an employment search engine for Australia. It allows you to search a growing selection of jobsites in one go saving you the trouble of having to go to each site individually

Careers Online Australia - Career research, resume help, job hunting tips, positions vacant and more

CityTownInfo - The site's career directory presents information on hundreds of employment categories and thousands of schools, to help people find and pursue careers in the United States.

Commonwealth Public Service Gazette - Australian Public Service employment opportunities

Hippo - An online service which helps young people find casual or part-time work.

Indeed - A search engine for jobs, allowing job seekers to find jobs posted on thousands of company career sites and job boards.

JobGuide - DEETYA - an Australian site which gives an in-depth look at a range of occupations, and their education and training pathways. It also gives useful information about how to work out what occupations suit you best, based on your interests and abilities.

Job-Hunt.org - Your Guide to international On-Line Career and Job Hunting Resources

jobjuice - A website for young people looking for work. Provides vital information on career, training and job opportunities

jobs.nsw - Government jobs online

Jobsearch - lists jobs in government Australia wide with a special section for Librarians.

JobServe Australia - Search for jobs at JobServe Australia

jobsjobsjobs.com.au - Thousands of new jobs, careers and employment opportunities in Australia.

jobWise - A website for mature age people who are looking for work. Provides lots of information about jobs, careers and training

Letters for Job Hunters

Local Government Jobs Australia - LGJobs is a weekly email service which lists new middle and senior level positions available within the local government sector throughout Australia

Mind Tools - essential skills for an excellent career - Information to help you develop good communication, management and leadership skills as well as stress and time management skills.

Mission Australia - Mission Australia is one of the biggest employment service operators in the nation

MyCareer - search for a job in the employment advertisements from Fairfax newspapers. Lists over 20,000 jobs.

myfuture - Australia's career information service - Comprehensive career information website

Office of industrial relations - Awards, pay rates, workplace safety, rights and responsibilities, conditions of employment etc

Ozjac - the Australian courses and careers database.
[ Available only in the library - ask staff for username & password.]

Part Time Online - A specialist website for part time jobs, flexible work, contract work, temporary positions and casual job employment.Includes jobs in the Wollongong area.

Seek - lists over 29,000 jobs, offers selection by industry/profession, excellent sample resumes.

State Awards (NSW) - This database contains consolidated NSW private sector awards. The awards in this database are as supplied by the NSW Department of Industrial Relations. Currently, awards are simply presented in plain text form.

WageNet - WageNet provides information about wages and conditions of employment in Australia for work that is covered by federal awards and agreements

WorkChoices - Information on the workplace relations system.

WorkCover NSW Homepage - WorkCover NSW manages the State's workplace safety, injury management, and workers compensation systems.

Genealogy & Family History - Australia

Adelaide Proformat - Adelaide Proformat was established in June 1994 to help Australians with their family history research and presentation and to help people beyond Australia research within Australia

AIATSIS Family History Unit - The Unit specifically assists Link-Up caseworkers in the family tracing and reunion for Indigenous people who were removed. We can also assist anyone of Indigenous heritage with their family history research

Ancestry Library edition - Ancestry.com access using the Wollongong City Library subscription. Available only in the Library

Ancestry.com.au - Genealogy, family trees and family history records

Archives Office of Tasmania - Searchable databases for genealogical research

Australasian Passenger Lists - This site is designed to help family historians locate passenger lists for migrant ships to Australia/New Zealand. It includes a list of other relevant links.

Cemeteries of Australia (Interment.Net) - A free online library of burial records from selected cemeteries in Australia. Includes links to thousands of cemeteries across the world.

Convict Research - A list of useful websites on the subject. From Janet Reakes Genealogy.

Convict Transportation Registers Database - Over 123,000 out of the estimated 160,000 convicts transported to Australia are recorded in this database. It covers the period of 1787 to 1867 and mainly includes those convicted in England, Wales and Scotland. Only a small number of Irish convicts appear in this series of records. Indexed by the State Library of Queensland.

Convicts to Australia - A guide to researching your convict ancestors

Dead Persons Society - A self help society of like minded people interested in advancing genealogical and family history research through the use of electronic mediums

Decisions of the Superior Courts of NSW 1788-1899

Directory of Archives in Australia

Family History: Immigrants - Records in the National Archives. Details over 125,000 non-British European migrants who came to Australia between 1951 and 1965

First Fleet Online - Consists of information about the convicts who were transported to Australia in 1787.

Genes reunited - Genes Reunited is Australia's largest family tree and genealogy website

Hunter Valley Genealogy - Articles on the history of local towns & coalmines, cemetery lists plus Hunter Valley Families - contact details for other families being researched

Index to the Colonial Secretary's Papers 1788-1825

Index to the Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children - This index of registers of the Randwick Asylum is compiled from records held at the State Records New South Wales. The index is an ongoing volunteer project

Ireland - Australia Transportation Database

List of Institutions/Homes Australia - Information on orphanages, mental hospitals and other institutions

Lorraine's Family History Resources - A site prepared by Lorraine Stacker, Research Services Librarian for Penrith City Council, to help family researchers in Australia

Macbeth Genealogical Services - Access to free indexes - Divorce Index Victoria, Assisted Immigration to Victoria, and the Immigration Index, Victoria

Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters - Masters, crew, a stowaway or two; passengers, cabin, saloon and steerage; births at sea, deaths at sea - you will find them all here.

National Archives of Australia - Search the Archives for records relating to Australian history, Australian society and the Australian people. The collection’s main strength is material created since Federation in 1901 by Commonwealth government agencies such as departments, royal commissions, statutory authorities, military units, security, intelligence and law enforcement agencies, diplomatic posts and foreign relations

Newcastle Cemeteries Listing - Headstone transcriptions of four significant cemeteries in the Newcastle area: Christ Church Cathedral Cemetery, Tarro Cemetery, Old Wallsend Cemetery and traces of North Waratah Cemetery

NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages - Historical indexes - Online searches are now available for: Births - 1788-1905; Marriages - 1788-1954; Deaths - 1788-1974

Public Record Office Victoria - Includes immigration records, education records, early Port Phillip records and convict records

Queensland Historical Index Search - Birth, deaths & marriages 1829-1914

Richmond River Historical Society - Many Illawarra folk moved to the Richmond river area in the late 1800’s. This site has on-line indexes to many of their resources

Ryerson Index - Index to Contemporary Death Notices and Obituaries in Australian Newspapers including SMH, Kiama Independent, Illawarra Mercury from 1986 onwards.

Searching Western Australian online indexes - Births & deaths 1841-1931, Marriages 1841-1907

Ships Logs, Journals, Pictures and Passenger List Links - Australia and New Zealand

Society of Australian Genealogists

State Records of NSW - State Records is the New South Wales Government's archives and records management authority

The Internet Surname Database - Contains a large FREE to access database (almost 50,000 surnames) on the history and meaning of family last names.

Victoria - Historical Index Searches - Births 1853 to 1924, Marriages 1853 to 1942, Deaths 1853 to 1985, Church baptisms, marriages and burials 1836 to 1853

Web Sites for Genealogists - An Australian Gateway Site for Tracing your Family History

Genealogy & Family History - World

Ancestry Library edition - Ancestry.com access using the Wollongong City Library subscription. Available only in the Library
[ Available only in the library - ask staff for username & password.]

Ancestry Public Library` - Genealogy, family trees and family history records online. Includes records from the United States Census; military records; court, land and probate records; vital and church records; directories and passenger lists

Ancestry.co.uk - UK & Ireland - Genealogical records from the British Isles and Island. Includes fee-based access to 1871, 1891 and 1901 British censuses

Domesday Book - Domesday Book is one of our earliest surviving public records. You can now search and download images of Domesday online

FamilySearch - from The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints. Includes 35 million names from their Ancestral file as well as 285 million names in the International Genealogical Index.

Find My Past - With millions of family history records online, Find My Past makes it easy to research your UK ancestry and create your family tree.

Genealogy Home Page - Contains over 4000 links to genealogy resources

Genealogy Learning Centre - How-to articles, genealogy classes and other resources that will help you dig deeper into your family's past.

Genealogy Quest - Select the glossaries link to go to lists of epidemics, occupations and diseases

Genealogy world

GENUKI - UK & Ireland Family History

Global Information Centre Historical and Genealogical Resources - A comprehensive annotated A-Z directory of global online resources for family history researchers.

Histpop - The Online Historical Population Reports Website - The Online Historical Population Reports (OHPR) collection provides online access to the complete British population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937

IGI Batch Numbers - British Isles and North America - Search by parish on the Latter-Day Saints (LDS) site

Italian Genealogy

National Archives of Ireland - The National Archives holds a wide variety of records, many of which are relevant to Irish genealogy and local history.

New Zealand Births, Deaths & Marriages Online - From the New Zealand government.

Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674-1834 - A fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court

RootsWeb.com - The oldest and largest free genealogy site

ScotlandsPeople - Connecting generations - The official online source of parish register, civil registration and census records for Scotland. Provides a fully searchable index of Scottish births from 1553-1903, marriages from 1553 to 1928 and deaths from 1855 to 1953. This is a fee-based site

Scottish Emigration Database - Records of over 21,000 passengers who embarked at Glasgow and Greenock for non-European ports between 1 January and 30 April 1923, and at other Scottish ports between 1890 and 1960.

The English Census Website - 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901 census for England and Wales. Free index, fees apply for image viewing.

The National Archives - United Kingdom - The UK government's official archive.

Geography

Australian Mines Atlas - National maps and information on mines and minerals.

Amnesty International Reports - Reports from 1993 to date

Australia Geography 2000 - brief geographical summary

Australia: Geography - Key Facts, geographic landmarks, points of interest , major industries, historical highlights, population and culture.

Australian Antarctic Division - Experience Antarctica - this site contains detailed information about Antarctica and Australia's work in the icy continent

Cartoscope maps and guides

Dept of Environment and Heritage - The environmental themes section of the site links to information on biodiversity, atmosphere, coasts and oceans and inland waters

Digitised Map Collection - From the National Library of Australia.

Earth Impact Database - Impact cratering on earth

Flags of the World

Freeze Frame - Historic Polar Images, 1845-1982. From the Scott Polar Research Institute.

Geographic Names Search - An online tool to help you find the geographic location of a place name

Geographical Names Board - Click on Name Search to search the Geographical Names Register of New South Wales

Geography topics - from the "Librarians Index to the Internet", this list links to many topics of interest to geography students.

GeoScience Australia - Landforms - Facts about deserts, waterfalls, river and mountains as well as the history of Australian landforms

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names - Find out the latitude and longitude of named places.

International Polar Year - Runs from March 2007 through to March 2009, during which time a team of thousands of scientists from 60 nations will be examining a wide range of physical, biological, and social research topics that deal with the Arctic and the Antarctic. Special educators’ links.

Maporama.com - street-level directional maps for 15 European nations, all of the USA, and most of Canada.

Mapquest - The most highly-rated and popular interactive mapping service on the World Wide Web

Maps - All The Worlds Maps - A compilation of each Nation's maps including cities

Maps and Geography - A National Geographic site

NationalGeographic.com - explore and enjoy "the world and all that is in it"

NSW Natural Resource Atlas - The Natural Resource Atlas is the New South Wales portal to maps and data for environmental management, planning, research and education

Parish and Historical Maps - Lands has more than 35,000 parish and historic maps of NSW available online

Place Names Search - this gazetteer gives you the location for over 210,000 geographic names in Australia. It also gives a topographic map reference number. Topographic Maps are held in the Reference Library.

Quick Maps of the World - This site is a comprehensive alphabetical listing of detailed maps of the world. There are also links to flags of the world, as well as international facts and figures

ReefBase - An online information system on coral reefs designed to provide relevant data and information to reef managers, scientists, and the general public.

Volcano Live - Volcano news, information & travel. Produced by Australian Volcanologist John Seach

Whereis Street Atlas (Sydney,Brisbane etc) - search for a place

World Development Reports - Online access to the World Bank's annual World Development Report (WDR)- an invaluable guide to the economic, social and environmental state of the world today

World Fact Book - all countries - from the CIA, this is an excellent profile of all countries and includes data on geography, people, economy, government, transport, and military.

World monument watch - World Monuments Fund 100 most endangered sites, year-by-year

World Populations to 2300 - This 2004 report provides human population projections to 2300 for the world, its nations, and its major areas

Government

Arts NSW - Cultural grants, fellowships, scholarships and awards

Australia Council for the Arts

Australian Capital Territory

Australian Citizenship - Contains information about applying for Australian citizenship, including links to the new Citizenship Test.

Australian Electoral Commission - Find out which electorate you are in and who represents you. Plus anything to do with elections.

Australian Government Online Directory - Structure, organisations and key people

Australian Government Publications Register - This Register has been developed to improve access to government publication information by assisting users to find out what publications are available and how and where they can be sourced

Australian Local Government Association

Australian Local Government Training (ALGT) - Provides Councils and the Local Government sector with a range of services to assist in addressing the training and professional development needs of the local government workforce

Australian of the Year Awards - History of the Awards since their inception in 1960.Includes information about nominating candidates.

communitybuilders.nsw - a comprehensive listing of sources of funding in NSW plus advice on writing submissions

Consumers Online - the Commonwealth Government's Consumer Protection site

Councils on the web

Dept Immigration & Citizenship - Publications, Research & Statistics - Publications on migration and population-related issues. Many are available free from this website and can be downloaded

Diplomatic and Consular Corps - Includes the Consular List, Diplomatic List and List of Representatives of International Organisations, Heads of Mission List and Chargés d'Affaires ad interim List

Easy Grants - Australia's most comprehensive monthly grants newsletter. A subscription to the Easy Grants newsletter and database is $45 per year

Environment & Heritage Grants and Funding - A list of the grants available through the Australian Government Department of the Environment and Heritage

First Corporate Pty Ltd - First Corporate Pty Ltd is a specialist corporate adviser/funding facilitator for small to medium enterprises (SME's) seeking to raise equity capital in Australia

GrantGuru - Free searchable listing of grants and funding for community based and not-for-profit organisations.

GrantsLINK - Your Commonwealth community grants site

ICAC - Independent Commission Against Corruption

IMB Community Foundation - The Foundation supports projects that reflect its objectives, which include enhancing the economic self-sufficiency of communities, as well as generating economic, social, cultural, environmental, tourism and educational benefits for those communities

It’s an Honour - The latest news on honours, a complete A-Z guide to awards, fact sheets and statistics, and a search facility for the Australian Honours Database.

Local Government and Shires Associations - NSW

Local Government Managers Australia

Local Government procurement - Local Government Procurement (LGP) has been established to provide a fully integrated procurement service to councils and associated organisations in NSW

Managing the border: immigration compliance 2004-05 - Information and statistics on immigration compliance, enforcement and investigations

Members of the Parliament of NSW - Includes electoral district search

Myer Foundation - The Foundation will consider support of any activity that furthers our objectives, meets our requirements and addresses our areas of focus

National Governments

National symbols

New South Wales Electoral Commission - The New South Wales Electoral Commission is an independent statutory authority which conducts state elections, local council elections, NSW Aboriginal Land Council elections and certain statutory elections.

New South Wales Government

New South Wales Govt Directory

New South Wales Parliament

Northern Territory

NSW Department of Local Government

NSW Government - Click on the Funding & Grants link

NSW Government Gazette - All NSW Government Gazettes from 2001 onwards.

NSW Govt Gazette - The Government Gazette is available from 2 pm every Friday

NSW Local Government Directory

OpenAustralia.org - A non-partisan website run by a group of volunteers which aims to make it easy for people to keep tabs on their representatives in Parliament.

Organisation For Economic Co-operation And Development - OECD brings together the governments of countries committed to democracy and the market economy from around the world.

Parliament of NSW - Hansard and House Papers - Hansard and House Papers are available online from 1991

Parliamentary Handbook - Provides information on on the current Australian Commonwealth Parliament, together with historical information on the Parliament since Federation. The Handbook also provides comprehensive statistics for the November 2001 election, and details of all referendums held since 1901

Philanthropy Australia - The national membership organisation for grantmaking trusts and foundations

Queensland

Roads Users Handbook (Roads and Traffic Authority NSW) - The Road Users Handbook explains the main rules which apply to all road users and must be read and understood if you want to hold a driver licence in NSW

Seniors information service - A NSW Government service funded by the NSW Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care which provides information for seniors on a range of topics

South Australia

Tasmania

The Australian Constitution

United Nations

UTS Centre for Local Government - Professional development programs for local government personnel and associated professionals

Victoria

Western Australia

World Fact Book - select a country to view details of their government including head of state, political parties and leaders.

Health and Medicine

Secrets of Yoga - Bringing together all the yogic technologies in one web site with love, spirituality, and personal style

ABC Health & Wellbeing - The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's award-winning online health gateway.

AllPsych Online: The Virtual Psychology Classroom - One of the largest and most comprehensive psychology websites on the Internet

Alzheimer's Australia - Alzheimer's Australia is the peak body providing support and advocacy for the 500,000 Australians living with dementia.

Andrology Australia - Andrology Australia is a community and professional education programme providing information on male reproductive health.

Andrology Australia - Quality information on male reproductive health

Antibiotic Resistance - Links that offer reliable information on the problem of antibiotic resistance. From the US Food and Drug Administration

Australian Drug Information Network - links to information resources on alcohol and other drugs.

Australian Safety and Compensation Council - Includes information on hazardous substances and dangerous goods, national standards and codes of practice and safety alerts

Australian Stem Cell Centre - Information about stem cells, FAQs, a glossary, links to other sites and a news and events list

Australian Traditional-Medicine Society - Australia's largest professional association of complementary medicine practitioners, representing about 65% of the total complementary medicine profession.

BioMed Central - Over 100 Open Access journals covering all areas of Biology and Medicine

Black Dog Institute - A clinical, research and educational body dedicated to improving understanding, diagnosis and treatment of depression and bipolar disorder

Bladder and bowel health - Information on bladder and bowel health to people with bladder control and bowel problems, their family and friends, carers, health professionals, service providers and researchers

Bladder and Bowel Website - Information & advice on the prevention & management of bladder control & bowel problems

BluePages - Provides information about depression. From the Centre for Mental Health Research at the Australian National University.

BreastScreen NSW - This government funded service aims to detect breast cancer early before it has a chance to spread.

Cancer Council New South Wales - The leading cancer charity in NSW.

Cannabis and mental health - schools resource - A teacher resource for years 9 and 10 - has been developed to assist teachers in discussing issues around cannabis use and mental health.

Cannabis Can Leave You Permanently Out Of It - From the NSW Department of Health.

Clinical Pharmacology - world-class drug information FREE

Disease Database - Cross-referenced index of human disease, medications, symptoms, signs, abnormal investigation findings etc

Drug info @ Your Local Library - Provides up to date information about alcohol and drugs on this website and through local public libraries in New South Wales

Drug Info Clearinghouse - Drug Prevention Network - Free resources and fact sheets to download

DrugDigest - Consumer health information about drugs, herbs and supplements

DrugWatch - A comprehensive database featuring extensive information about thousands of different prescription and over-the-counter medications and drugs currently on the market or previously available worldwide.

Facts for Families - Concise and up-to-date information on issues that affect children, teenagers, and their families

Free Medical journals - free access to over 750 journals on the Web.

Hazardous Substances Information System - An internet resource that allows you to find information on substances that have been classified in accordance with the Approved Criteria for Classifying Hazardous Substances

HealthInsite - A world class internet gateway designed to provide you with easy access to reliable, high quality health information online

HEALTHmap - Global disease alert mapping system

Healthopedia - A medical and health consumer information resource containing comprehensive and unbiased information in patient-friendly language from trusted sources on over 1,500 health topics, 70 focussed health centers, and more than 11,000 drugs and

HealthWorld Online - if it's health you're interested in, this is a good place to start

Healthy Weight website - A new Australian government website that gives advice on maintaining a healthy weight, eating well, weight loss and physical activity. It also includes tools to calculate your Body Mass Index (BMI) and a calorie counter

HighWire Press - HighWire Press is one of the largest archives of free full-text science on Earth! They are assisting in the online publication of 140,300 free full-text articles and 636,913 total articles, mainly medical.

Hormone Replacement Therapy

Immunise Australia Program - Provides information about immunisation and Australian immunisation standards.

Inside Cancer - A remarkable exploration of the nature of cancer in the human body

Lancet Interactive - articles from the current issue

Leukaemia Foundation - Dedicated to the care and cure of patients and families living with leukaemias, lymphomas, myeloma and related blood disorders.

Lost For Words - An author is compiling a picture dictionary for adults with Alzheimer's and is calling for contributions to make carers' lives a little more manageable.

MedExplorer - Health/Medical search engine

Medical Reference - Medical Reference for non-medical librarians

Medical Sites Info Service - a portal for medical sites

Medicine OnLine - offers medical information and education in oncology and HIV/AIDS, Medline literature searches, Daily Medical News, Cancer Forums discussion groups, and reports from medical meetings for health care professionals, patients, and other interested consumers.

Medline plus - Drug information - Information on thousands of prescription and over-the-counter medications

Medline Plus: Women's Health Topics - A collection of high-quality information resources on women's health issues, from AIDS to vaginal diseases. From the MEDLINE database, National Library of Medicine.

MedlinePlus Health Information - Includes drug information, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary

MedlinePlus: Mental Health - This site is devoted to providing high quality material about mental health. It includes information on Alternative therapy, nutrition, specific conditions and provides links to a number of other sources.

Medpedia - A repository of up-to-date unbiased medical information, contributed and maintained by health experts around the world, and freely available to everyone.

Medscape - Includes Medline (user name: weblinks password: wollongong)

Merck Manual - search the world's most widely used medical text

MERCK MANUAL--Home Edition - search the world's most widely used medical text

myDr - Australia's comprehensive health site

myDr Men’s Health Centre - A comprehensive list of articles on men's health issues, categorised into easy-to-follow topics.

National Asthma Council of Australia - An extensive array of resources on asthma and its management.

NIDA for teens - This site has been developed by scientists at the US National Institute on Drug Abuse especially for teens

NSW Health - a-z of common health topics, local health services. NSW Health publishes a wide range of materials that are available to the community. Publications may be in the form of a pamphlet, brochure, report or fact sheet.

OmniMedicalSearch.com - A metasearch engine for the Medical Search Engines (for professionals and layman)

On-line Medical Dictionary - contains terms relating to biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology, science and technology.

Oxford Reference Online - Enter you library barcode and select medicine to search the Concise Medical Dictionary, an A-Z of Medicinal Drugs, a Dictionary of Nursing and a Dictionary of Psychology

Pregnancy Center - This very nice site is dedicated to providing the web-browsing public with comprehensive and highly readable information about pregnancy

PrivateHealth.gov.au - Contains a database of all policies offered by private health insurance companies in Australia.

PubMed - a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources

Raising Children Network - Offers a range of independent content to assist parents.

TeensHealth - A safe, private place for teens who need honest, accurate information and advice about health, emotions, and life.

The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health - Provides a unique response to the needs of women through excellence in research, community and professional education, and clinical care.

The Official Website of the Glycemic Index and GI Database - The glycemic index or GI ranks carbohydrates according to their effect on our blood glucose levels.

The Organic Center - The Center's mission is to generate credible, peer-reviewed scientific information and communicate the verifiable benefits of organic farming and products to society.

The Rosenthal Center - alternative medicine

Travel Health Information Page - from the National Center for Infectious Diseases. Check this site before travelling overseas.

Virtual Medical Centre - Virtual Medical Centre is Australia's leading medical information website. It delivers the latest medical information written by medical professionals.

World Health Organisation - lots of health topics from the World Health Organization

World Life Expectancy - Health and longevity details by country.

World's Healthiest Foods - Information and recipes

Yahoo's Health portal site - Yahoo's Health portal site

History

ANZAC Day - From the Australian Government's Culture and Recreation Portal.

ANZAC Day - Teaching and Learning about ANZAC Day - From the New South Wales Board of Studies.

Archaeology - A publication of the Archaeological Institute of America

Argus Index - The Argus, published in Melbourne from 1846-1957, was the quality newspaper of record in the nineteenth and first part of the twentieth century. This index to the Argus covers the decade 1870-1879

Australian Army War Diaries - Excerpts of digitised diaries from those who served Australia during the First and Second World Wars, the Korean War,and in the South East Asian conflicts.

Australian Dictionary of Biography - Online edition - Australia's pre-eminent dictionary of national biography. Here are over 10,000 scholarly biographies of significant Australians who died before 1980

Australian History on the Internet - An annotated directory of websites relating to Australian history compiled by the National Library of Australia

Australian National Maritime Museum - Articles on shipping and an index to photographs of ships

Australian National Shipwrecks Database - A database of all known shipwrecks in Australian waters.

Australian War Memorial - A must see site for information about Australians at War. Includes access to the Memorial's biographical and collection databases

Australians at War

Australia's Prime Ministers

Australia's War 1939-1945 - WW2 site established by the Department of Veteran's Affairs

BBC History - Includes in-depth articles, timelines and short biographies of historic figures. Covers a broad range of topics from ancient history to wars and conflict

Best of History Web Sites - An anthology of online history resources.

Biographical Dictionary

British History Online - The digital library of text and information about people, places and businesses from the medieval and early modern period, built by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust

British Monarchy

Burke & Wills Web - Historical resources relevant to the study of the Burke & Wills expedition across Australia in the 1860’s

Celebrity Link - Celebrity Link contains a huge directory of links to sites dedicated to celebrities. The links are checked regularly.

Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System - Contains information on over six million soldiers and sailors from 44 states and territories who were involved in the Civil War.

Commonwalth War Graves Commission - Has Debt of Honour Register for all British & Commonwealth war dead in World War I & II

Despatches From Gallipoli - Charles Bean, Keith Murdoch, Phillip Schuler and Charles Smith were four Australians who went to Gallipoli as journalists during World War 1. This website aims to introduce these men and their writing, as well as to highlight their role in the development of an Australian identity.

Digger History - An unofficial history of the Australian Armed Services

Distinguished Women of Past and Present - Includes writers, educators, scientists, heads of state, politicians, civil rights crusaders, artists, entertainers, and others.

Encyclopedia Titanica - A unique resource for anyone interested in the Titanic

Fashion Era - Looks at women's costume and fashion history and analyses the mood of an era.

First World War.Com

Historic government publications from World War II - Digital library of US government documents, and photographs, with links to other WWII history sites

History Explorer - This is an interactive timeline of American history. It features collections, exhibitions and programs from the National Museum of American History including a world map from 1511 and Plymouth Rock.

History of Fashion in Slides - A collection of images representing the history of fashion, primarily in the Western World, from the "prehistoric" to the present day.

History of flight from around the world - Features country profiles for nearly two dozen countries and pioneer profiles for individuals such as Lawrence Hargrave, Amelia Earhart and the Wright brothers. Browse by maps or persons.

History of Women in Sports Timeline - A chronology of the history of female athletes around the world, beginning in 776 BC and continuing through the present

HistoryWorld - Historyworld’s aim is to make world history more easily accessible through interactive narratives and timelines.

HyperHistory Online - HyperHistory presents 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic lifelines, timelines, and maps.

Illawarra Images on the Web - historical image collection from Wollongong City Library

London Lives - London Lives makes available, in a fully digitised and searchable form, a wide range of primary sources about eighteenth-century London (1690-1800), with a particular focus on plebeian Londoners.

Mapping Our Anzacs - Interactive, searchable database leading to digitised images of war records for individuals throughout Australia

Medals of the World - Images and descriptions of thousands of medals from around the world

MedHist - A guide to history of medicine resources on the Internet

Migration Heritage Centre - The Migration Heritage Centre identifies, records, preserves and interprets the heritage of migration and settlement in the State of New South Wales, Australia from 1788 to the present day

Military history - Jensen's Web Sources for Wars & World Military History

Mostly Medieval - Exploring the Middle Ages

National Portrait Gallery - Over 28,000 portraits online. Visitors can look at renderings of Samuel Johnson, Henry VIII, and other luminaries and search the entire collection of 50,167 portraits online

Nineteenth Century Exploration of Australia

Nominal Roll of Vietnam Veterans - The Nominal Roll of Vietnam Veterans honours and commemorates the men and women who served in the Royal Australian Navy, Australian Army and Royal Australian Air Force in Vietnam, or in the waters adjacent to Vietnam, during the conflict between 23 May 1962 and 29 April 1975

NSW Heritage Office - including the State Heritage Inventory and guidelines and publications on heritage policy and management

NSW Law Almanacs - The entire collection of all past New South Wales Law Almanacs (from 1886), with the exception of 2002 (the only year it was not published). They have been catalogued by year and are fully searchable.

On This Day - Highlights worldwide historical events using audio and video clips from the archives of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Browse events by date, year (1950 to present), or themes such as conflicts and wars, disasters, science, and royalty

Picture Australia - images of people, places and events in the collections of libraries, museums, galleries, archives, universities and other cultural agencies, in Australia and abroad

Register of the National Estate - includes listings for more than 12,000 places of natural, historic and indigenous significance

The Australians at War Film Archive - A record of the stories of over two thousand war veterans.

The Battle of the Somme - Find out how the Battle was planned and fought, about the experiences of the people who were involved and about the battlefields today.

The Costumer's Manifesto - Links to the history of costume and fashion

The Making of Modern Australia - The website where people can share their own stories of living in Australia since 1945. The creators of the documentary TV series "The Making of Modern Australia" will read the stories and may use some of them in the series screening on ABC TV in 2010.

The Medieval Bestiary - Deals with any and all aspects of the general topic "animals in the Middle Ages", though there is an emphasis on the manuscript tradition, particularly of the bestiaries, and mostly in western Europe.

The Nobel Prize Internet Archive

The Presidents of the United States - potted biographies and images of presidents from 1789 to the present.

The World Fact Book of International Disputes - Summarizes specific historical and current disputes listed under the countries involved

TheHistoryNet - From the world's largest publisher of history magazines

Timeline Index - People, Events, Periods and Places in a chronological context

Vietnam Project - The Virtual Vietnam Archive "enables scholars, students and all interested in this remarkable period in our world history to conduct research directly from universities, schools, libraries, and homes.

Vietnam War - Australian involvement

ViewFinder - Online image resource for England's history

Visit Gallipoli - The ANZAC Site commemorating 90 years since the Gallipoli landing. ANZAC Day is April 25th

War Times Journal Portal - The Portal link list is an on-line military resource for researchers, hobbyists, military professionals and all others with an interest in military history, science and defense

WebChron - historical and cross-cultural chronologies including Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Western Civilization

Who2? Find Famous People Fast

World Heritage List

World War 1 - Trenches on the Web - These pages contain information on the people, places, and events that comprised one of the worst calamities of modern history

World War 1Colour Photos - World War I.... who would have thought there were original colour photos of WWI? This site contains hundreds of photos taken by the French in the last two years of World War One.

World War I Document Archive - Primary documents of WWI including conventions, treaties, official papers, documents by year, personal reminiscences and a biographical dictionary

World War Two Nominal Roll - Information from the service records of some one million individuals who served during World War Two

Year by Year 1900-2001 - Historic events of the 20th Century

Homework

Amazing Rainforest Animals - Animals From aardvark to xenosaurus

Australian Koala Foundation - The site features facts about koalas (habitat,diet, life cycle, koala sounds, and more), images, and information about AKF projects. Also includes information for children

AustralianFauna.com - Genuine quality information about ALL types of Australian Fauna

Australia's Prime Ministers - lists all Prime Ministers of Australia

BBC History for Kids - Information for Primary and Secondary students

Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves of Australia - examples of 5 types of rainforest, brief information.

Cotton Australia - Education - Facts sheets on the history, growing, processing, manufacturing etc of cotton

Country Profiles - An instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries

Dino directory - Basic information on 229 of the most well described dinosaurs. The directory can be searched by scientific name, body shape, or by time period

Dinosaurs - a museum tour of dinosaur fossils with brief descriptions

Drought for kids - Describes what drought is ("not just a lack of rainfall"), and explains how droughts are tracked, the damage they can cause, and how to plan ahead and conserve water

Earth Science Australia - geology, fossils, earth sciences

Earthquake information - earthquakes around the world but mainly in Nevada

El Nino and Climate Prediction - A publication of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (USA)

Electoral systems - From the Parliament of Australia - Parliamentary Library

Encyclopedia Britannica

Fact Monster - Online Dictionary, Encyclopedia, and Homework Help

Flags of the World

Frogs: A Chorus of Colors - This site provides information on frog life cycles and reproduction, environmental concerns, details on various species (including poisonous ones), photographs, and audio files of individual species and of a frog chorus

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority - all about the GBRMPA, how they manage the Great Barrier Reef, facts about the reef

Greenhouse Office, Australian - The Australian Greenhouse Office has a range of programs from household and community to industry and government action that are making significant progress in reducing Australia’s greenhouse emissions.

HomeworkSpot - Years 1-6

How volcanoes work - An educational resource that describes the science behind volcanoes and volcanic processes

Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission - Information for Students - Information for students on human rights, disability rights, sex discrimination, racial discrimination etc

Kidipede - History for kids - Introductory material designed for children about the history and culture of Europe, Asia, and Africa before 1500. Topics include North America, China, India, west Asia, Greece, Egypt, Africa, Rome, Islam, Germany, and the Middle Ages

Landforms - our Weblinks list of key sites - mainly Australian

Lawstuff - legal information for young people

Marsupial society of Australia - Information about keeping and breeding our native Fauna in captivity

Mathematics - History Biographies, classic problems, famous curves through the ages etc.

Money from Ancient Times to the Present Day - A chronology of money from 9000BC to 2002. Select a time period from the Timelines.

National NAIDOC - NAIDOC celebrates the survival of Indigenous culture and the Indigenous contribution to modern Australia

Ned Kelly: Australian Ironoutlaw

Pompeii: Stories from an eruption - Companion website to a 2005-2006 exhibition at the Field Museum (Chicago) about the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 that affected Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis, and other areas

Prime Ministers of Australia Scrapbook

Rainforest Animals - taken from the Multimedia Animals Encyclopedia.

Rainforests - A school site giving information about tropical and temperate reainforests, tropical plants and animals

Significant Earthquakes of the World

The Australian Bushrangers - Contains many useful links.

The Reptiles of Australia - Information on the range of reptiles found in Australia including images, maps and habitats.

The Tsunami Page - Tsunami, Earthquakes, Hurricanes, Volcanic Eruptions and other Natural and Man-Made Hazards and Disasters

Virtual Volcano - Explore a virtual volcano. From the Discovery Channel.

Volcanoes for kids - Volcano education for teachers and students

World Fact Book - countries, statistics, maps, flags, population, environment, economy...

World Heritage List

Hot Topic

Alternative Resources on the U.S. War - a list of Web resources on the current world situation that represent alternative viewpoints.

An inconvenient truth - Information about the film featuring Al Gore as well as simple tips on how you can make a difference

Asia-Pacific Emissions Trading Forum - The prime information service and business network dealing with domestic and international developments in greenhouse gas emissions markets in this region.

Australia Institute - Web papers on climate change from the Australia Institute

Australian Government - Department of Climate Change - The Department of Climate Change was established on 3 December 2007 as part of the Prime Minister and Cabinet Portfolio.

Beyond the War in Iraq - This special report from National Public Radio provides ongoing coverage of postwar Iraq

Climate change - Bureau of Meteorology - Climate change from an Australian perspective

Council on Foreign Relations, Terrorism

Council on Foreign Relations: Hezbollah (a.k.a. Hizbollah, Hizbu'llah) - Background about Hezbollah, "a Lebanese umbrella organization of radical Islamic Shiite groups and organizations"

Country profile: Iraq - From BBC News

Country profile: Israel and Palestinian autonomous areas

E-Briefs - Electronic documents which provide background and commentary on current topics, as well as web links. From the Parliamentary Library.

Flashpoints: Guide to World Conflicts - Flashpoints strives to provide the information needed to make informed judgements about the nature of specific violent political conflicts.

Gateway to the UN System’s Work on Climate Change - Articles, links and resources.

Global warming facts & our future

Guardian Special Report: Israel and the Middle East - Collection of news stories focusing on the crisis from The Guardian, UK.

Human Rights - Amnesty International Reports - Reports from 1993 to date

Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission - Information on human rights, disability rights, sex discrimination, racial discrimination etc

In depth: Israel and the Palestinians - A compilation of articles and opinion pieces about the crisis. From the BBC.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - IPCC Assessment reports and links.

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

London Attacks - An in depth report from the BBC

Madrid Train Attacks

Middle East Gateway

Middle East Research and Information Project

Monckton Collection - The complete papers of climate change skeptic Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley. From the Science & Public Policy Institute.

Natural Disasters: Animated Guides - Animations explaining how tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and volcanoes occur. From the BBC.

NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water - The lead NSW Government department with responsibility for protecting and caring for our environment, managing water resources and developing and coordinating programs to address the impacts of climate change.

Optimum Population Trust - The leading environmental charity and think tank in the UK concerned with the impact of population growth on the environment.

Renewal in Iraq - Resources related to the official White House position on Iraq

Skeptical Science - A summary of what the science says on each skeptic argument

South Asia Terrorism Portal - Terrorism and low intensity warfare in South Asia

Stern Review on the economics of climate change

Terrorism Knowledge Base - Comprehensive research and analysis on global terrorist incidents, terrorism-related court cases, and terrorist groups and leaders.

Terrorism: Selected Internet Resources - Resources selected by Library of Congress subject experts

The Afghanistan Analyst - A research portal for those who want to better understand Afghanistan.

The Kyoto Protocol - Home site of the protocol. Includes information about the protocol and links to its text in 6 languages.

The World Bank - Climate Change - This site is designed to provide an overview of the Bank's work on this vexing problem in the developing world including information about their current projects, data sets, research papers, and books.

United Nations Climate Change Conference - Held in Copenhagen, Denmark, Dec 7–18, 2009.

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - Includes links to official documents and text of the Kyoto Protocol

United States Environmental Protection Agency - Offers comprehensive information on the issue of climate change in a way that is accessible and meaningful to all parts of society.

United States Global Change Research Program - Coordinates and integrates federal research on changes in the global environment and their implications for society.

War on Terrorism - Extensive terrorism resources from FindLaw. News, commentary, legal cases, documents (including the report of the 9-11 Commission and related testimony), and discussion boards

War on Terrorism Resource Guides - A select list of links to web resources on the United States-Iraq confrontation

World Meteorological Organization - Home site of the UN's authoritative voice on the state and behaviour of the Earth's atmosphere, its interaction with the oceans, the climate it produces and the resulting distribution of water resources.

HSC

Ancient History - Excellent resources for students of Ancient History

Art Gallery of New South Wales - Established in 1874, the Art Gallery of NSW is proud to present fine international and Australian art in one of the most beautiful art museums in the world.

ArtExpress - ArtExpress is an exhibition of bodies of work by secondary school students submitted for the Higher School Certificate examination in Visual Arts in New South Wales, Australia

Ask a Librarian - We will help you locate information resources to help with your study

Ask a Scientist - Includes answers to questions like what is the difference between polygenic inheritance and multiple alleles

Australian Red Cross - How donated blood is used

Australia's health 2008 - Australia's premier source of statistics and information on patterns and determinants of health and illness; health across the life stages; the supply and use of health services; expenditure and workforce; and health sector performance

Australia's War 1939-1945 - Developed by the Office of the Board of Studies for the Commonwealth Department of Veterans' Affairs. This site charts the course of Australians' involvement in World War Two

Belonging (Infocus) - A list of related texts and resources based on the 2009-2012 Area of Study: Belonging from the State Library

Belonging (Inside break) - A list of HSC English suggested related texts and resources based on the 2009-2012 Area of Study: Belonging

Belonging blog - Short reviews or recommendations of specific texts, or links to websites of value to HSC students studying Belonging for the NSW HSC Area of Study

Belonging: Resource list for HSC English Area of Study - Link to a resource list of texts that might be relevant to the Area of Study: Belonging for the Standard and Advanced courses and the Language Study within the Area of Study: Belonging, for the English as a Second Language (ESL) course, as prescribed in the new HSC English Prescriptions 2009–2012

Beyond the HSC

Board of Studies - Syllabuses for all subjects from the Board of Studies

Chemistry - AUS-e-TUTE - This site has been developed by experienced Science Teachers to provide FREE chemistry tutorials designed for High School Chemistry Students

Chemistry - Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry

chemistry.org - The website of the American Chemical Society

Cuba Documentation Project - Collection of declassified U.S. government documents related to Cuba, covering the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Bay of Pigs invasion, the death of Che Guevara, relations between Fidel Castro and John F. Kennedy, and U.S. - Cuba "baseball diplomacy"

Databases - the Library's list of databases - newspaper and magazine articles on all subjects available from home or in the Library

DNA interactive

eBos Shop Online - Visit the Board of Studies Shop Online for your educational publications

Ecosystems at Risk Virtual Fieldtrip - A virtual field trip in the Minnamurra Rainforest.

Encore - Read profiles of participating Encore students and listen to excerpts from their performances

English Teachers Association - Help for Senior English Students from the English Teachers Association NSW

ESL - Interesting things for ESL students - A fun study site for students of English as a Second Language

Geography HSC Case Study - A global overview of the steel industry and case study on the Port Kembla Steelworks

History of Malaria

History Teachers Association of NSW

How to Write an Essay: 10 Easy Steps - Offers a ten-step process that teaches students how to write an essay.

HSC Critique - Visual Arts - Exam responses and further study links.

HSC Exam papers - past exam papers and reports from 1995 onwards.

HSC Legal Studies News Watch - This blog will help you find information about recent changes to the law, recent cases, new legislation as well as identify new publications that you will find useful. The authors of this blog work in the Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC) based at the State Library of NSW.

HSC Survival Guide - Examination tips and more - put together by NSW HSC Online and the Sydney Morning Herald

HSC Technology Syllabus Support - Case studies in design, technology and cultural diversity from the Powerhouse Museum

Human Development Report - Population statistics, development trends, climate change and the implications for development

Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission - Information for students on human rights, disability rights, sex discrimination, racial discrimination etc

Illawarra Images - historical images of the local area, people and events

Infocus - Infocus is an innovative service that links students studying for the HSC with information from the State Library of New South Wales.

Lawlink student resources - Resources for use by secondary school students undertaking legal studies in New South Wales

Learn about water - Detailed information about every aspect of water use from rain to sewers

LIAC Crime Library - A guide to criminal cases for use in school legal studies

Local history and information - find out what resources are available in the Local Studies Section of the Library, come & visit during opening hours for help with local information about Wollongong and the Illawarra area.

Making multicultural Australia - This site was established to assist teachers find quality resources on multiculturalism and explore new strategies to promote cultural diversity and tolerance

Minnamurra Rainforest Centre - a case study - A case study of the link between National Parks and Tourism.

Multiple Choice Testing Trial - A selection of multiple choice questions and answers from past examination papers

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney - Australia’s only museum dedicated to exhibiting, interpreting and collecting contemporary art from across Australia and around the world.

My High School Careers - Careers website for students, parents and careers advisers in NSW and the ACT.

National drugs campaign

National endocrine and metabolic diseases information service

Nova: Science in the news - Science behind the headlines for secondary school teachers and students

NSW HSC online - Syllabus overview, study hints and some resource material for all subjects

NSW HSC online - For parents

Oficial National Schoolies Week Site - Official website of Schoolies around Australia.

Online Multiple Choice - These Test Yourself quizzes can be long or short, taken from just one year's exam papers or from a mix of years stretching right back to 2001 - each user decides the number of questions they want in each test. Also contains School Certificate quizzes.

People responsible for the discover of DNA

Physics - Sources of information on the Physics Stage 6 syllabus from the University of Sydney

Physics HSC Resources from UNSW - Syllabus, faq's and notes on Bohr and the hydrogen sprctrum

Physics lessons - These Physics lessons are divided into the following categories: Matter, Mechanics, Fluids, Electricity & Magnetism, Waves, Sound and Optics, and Miscellaneous.

physicsweb - Brings together articles about the most exciting areas of modern physics in a single place

Society and Culture Association - An avenue for teachers and students to share resources and expertise.

Stage 6 Aboriginal Studies - Curriculum support from the NSW Dept Education and Training

Students Resources - List of resources have been designed with the needs of secondary students in mind

Study & exam techniques - strategies, exam techniques, study material from Charles Sturt University

Study skills - self help - various strategies including time management, priority setting, reading difficult texts & writing papers.

Sustainability Knowledge Network - Quality resources in sustainable systems and engineering

Teaching heritage - Developed by the Board of Studies NSW for the NSW Heritage Office

Technology Educators Association of NSW - A professional association representing those technology educators who teach Technology, Design & Technology, Textiles and Food Technology, VET Hospitality as well as Community & Family Studies in NSW high schools

Telecommunications - Information on telecommunications, microwave radio beams and the information superhighway for engineering students

Textiles and Design - Internet Resources for Interior Design - A basic list of resources relating to interior design available via the Internet

Visit Gallipoli - Developed by the Board of Studies NSW and the Commonwealth Department of Veterans' Affairs especially for students and teachers of Australian history and geography

Visual arts - Links for Visual Arts students, teachers and anyone else interested in art

Worldmapper - A resource that builds up spatial awareness of production and consumption of the world's resources

Kids

All About Dinosaurs - A good overview of the history of dinosaurs including the factors responsible for their extinction.

Book adventure - a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 6,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read offline, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes.

BookHive - your guide to children's literature

Buginfo - Information sheets on insects from the Smithsonian. Includes keeping insects as pets

Child Safety on the Information Highway - parents

Children's Story Podcast - Over 75 children’s stories in audio including classic fairy tales such as Cinderella, Snow White, and The Ginger Bread Man

Children's Storybooks Online - Illustrated children's stories for kids of all ages.

Common Sense Media - Entertainment reviews for kids and families. Reviews of movies, books, video games, TV programs and Websites

Cooking with kids - Let your kids help you in the kitchen with these great recipes just for kids. Many of these recipes include step-by-step instructions for your children to follow including useful information about kids using microwaves

DINOBASE - a dinosaur site with lots of pictures

Disney International

ePALS - classroom penpals exchange (USA)

Games from the ABC - All sorts of games and quizzes including ABC TV games

Gayle's Preschool Rainbow - Preschool education activities and early childhood education lesson plans.

Great Web Sites for Kids - From the American Association for Library Service for Children

Highlights for Children - Activities that will provide hours of fun for kids

How to Draw Cartoons - Simple step by step drawing lessons

How to raise silkworms - A tutorial on how to raise silkworms

Kid's Planet - This site features fact sheets on over 50 endangered species, as well as classroom resources, games, and environment protection activities for children. From the Defenders of Wildlife, a wildlife conservation organization

KinderArt - Free art lessons for teachers and kids (including preschoolers)

Lawstuff - legal information for children

Learning vocabulary can be fun - Vocabulary building for K-12

Lemony Snicket - a site which claims to have dreadful images...wretched information... unnerving games .

Literacy Center Education Network - Safe learning activities for parents and teachers to share with young children. All online lessons are free of advertising and free of charge

Math Cats - An online archive of fun and informative activities that will help young people learn about a number of math topics, including geometry and arithmetic

National Geographic Explorer - This website contains a host of valuable resources that complement the print magazine (geared for grades three through six), many of which may be used as standalone materials to aid in learning about various topics, such as environmental degradation and wildlife.

NetsSmartz Kids - An education safety resource designed to teach children how to stay safer on the net

PetNet - Select a pet - choose the dog or cat most suited to you

Planet Arkive - This site features [animal and plant] species profiles specifically for children aged 7-11, with accompanying wild facts, as well as fun games, quizzes and activities."

Premier's reading challenge - The Challenge is for all students in New South Wales in Years 5 to 8

Rollermache - Provides step-by-step instructions on a range of media production processes such as animations, podcasting, zines and comics

Scholastic Australia - fun things to do, cool books

Science for families - science projects, articles to read & lots of fun things to do with science.

SuperClubs plus Australia - A protected, online social learning community where kids meet friends, have fun and learn really cool stuff

Ten Minutes A Day - The Ten Minutes a Day program provides practical ideas on using stories, rhymes, songs and music to help children under two years develop early literacy skills.

The Children’s University Of Manchester - The University of Manchester shares the excitement of knowledge with the wider community, particularly primary schools. Resources include online interactive learning materials and educational games.

The EPA Global Warming Kids Site - From the United States Environmental Protection Agency

The Playground : the ABC's site for children and their carers. - The Playground has been designed to provide easy access to information about your favourite ABC Kids characters, TV programs and online games.

The Source - Australia's online guide to children's literature.
[ Available only in the library - ask staff for username & password.]

Winged Sandals - ABC Arts Online - Winged Sandals is produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The site takes takes visitors through the world of Greek mythology with a number of Flash-enabled movies, intriguing games, quizzes and storytimes

Yahooligans - the Web guide for kids. Sports, news, games, jokes

Zoom for kids - a great fun site for kids

Law and Legislation

Acts and Cases - From the Legal Information Access Centre. Find acts, regulations, judgments, court decisions, court rules, practice and procedure and links to finding cases.

Australasian Legal Information Institute (AUSTLII) - Provides free internet access to Australian legal materials including Commonwealth and State Acts, Regulations and Case Law

Australian Community Legal Centres

Australian Copyright Council

Australian Institute of Criminology - Australia's national crime and criminal justice research agency

Australian Law Online - Provides access to law and justice related information and services from all levels of government. The objective of this site is to provide Australians with ready access to clear, understandable, user-friendly information about the Australian legal system

BillsNet - Federal Bills - current and old

Capacity toolkit:information for government and community workers, professionals, families and carers in New South Wales - Provides up to date information for government and community workers, professionals, families and carers in New South Wales

Caring for country: a guide to environmental law for Aboriginal communities - The purpose of this guide is to assist Aboriginal people to understand their legal rights and obligations under environmental and natural resource management law

ComLaw - Commonwealth of Australia Law - ComLaw is the legal information retrieval system owned by the Australian Attorney-General's Department

Commonwealth Government Notices Gazettes - Contains Gazettes and Indexes to the Gazettes, published by the Attorney-General's Department since July 2002.

Community Justice Centre - Community Justice Centres provide free mediation and conflict management services to help people resolve disputes

Consumer Credit Legal Centre NSW - A community legal centre specialising in financial services, particularly matters and policy issues related to consumer credit, banking and debt recovery. It has a particular focus on issues that affect low income and disadvantaged consumers.

Family Court of Australia

Find Legal Answers - Find legal answers to everyday questions about the law in NSW

Findlaw for the Public

FindLaw.com - an easy to use Australian law site with very practical resources including business law, cases, students resources etc

Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission - Information and legislation covering human rights, disability rights, sex discrimination, racial discrimination etc

Illawarra Legal Centre Inc - A community legal centre based in Warrawong. Free legal advice

Indigenous Justice Clearinghouse - The aim of the clearinghouse is to promote discussion and disseminate relevant Indigenous justice information to government policy makers and those working in the Indigenous justice field

Land and environment court

Law and Justice Foundation - Plain language legal information resources

Law For You (NSW) - plain English legal information from practising lawyers

Law Society of New South Wales

LawAccess Online - Legal information to help you with your legal issues

Lawlink NSW

Lawstuff - Australia -about legal rights for people under 18

LexUM - Canadian Legal Web

National Crime Prevention Council - Directory of resources related to crime and crime prevention

Native Title Infobase - Includes selected material commencing from 1839 to the present day and covers all aspects of native title.

NSW Legislation in Force - free public access to NSW legislation - Acts, Regulations and Environmental Planning Instruments

Oznetlaw - Internet, online

Reference guide to the Geneva Conventions - Includes fulltext of the Conventions

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

WIPO - World Intellectual Property Organisation - Go to the “About” area to learn about the nature of trademarks, industrial designs, and emerging issues in intellectual property

World legal information institute - Free, independent and non-profit access to worldwide law databases from 55 countries including 21 international databases. A collaborative project of several legal information institutes.

Libraries

ALIA - Australian Library and Information Association

Archives Outside - A meeting place for people who have archival collections around New South Wales and researchers who wish to access them.

Aslib, The Association for Information Management

Australian Libraries Gateway (ALG) - find a library.

British Library Integrated Catalogue - This catalogue unites a number of previously separate sources to list over twelve million items in the British Library's outstanding collections

Directory of Archives in Australia

Internet Library for Librarians - A portal designed for librarians to locate internet resources related to their profession

Keeping up page - The Keeping Up Web Page is designed to help library and information science professionals develop and maintain a program of self-guided professional development

Librarians' Index to the Internet

Library Elf - Do you have trouble keeping track of all those great books, DVDs and magazines you have borrowed from the Library? Why not get some help from Library Elf?

Library of Congress Home Page

Library success: a best practices wiki - This wiki was created to be a one-stop-shop for great ideas for all types of librarians

LibrarySpot - search for libraries

LISTA - Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts - A world-class bibliographic database covering subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval and information management

More than just equipment - A report on the library and information needs of people with a disability, particularly in relation to the internet

MyLanguage.gov.au - MyLanguage provides access to search engines, web directories and news in over sixty languages

National Library of Australia Home Page

NetAlert - From the Australian internet safety advisory body

OCLC Newsletter - Newsletter of OCLC Online Computer Library Center. A nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information

OCLC- The world's libraries connected. - More than 60,000 libraries in 112 countries and territories around the world use OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalogue, lend and preserve library materials.

Parliamentary Library of Australia

Public Internet Access Guidelines for Public Libraries

Public Library Journal - Published by the Public Libraries Group of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (UK), this is the leading periodical produced specifically for local authority libraries.

Shellharbour City Library Service - Search the catalogue.

Speaking Volumes - The Speaking Volumes initiative aims to bring the enjoyment of reading and involvement in reading activities to people with a visual impairment

State Library of NSW

State Library of NSW - browse their catalogue

Trove - Find resources in Australian collections and worldwide online resources

UK Public Libraries on the Web

UNESCO Libraries Portal

University of Wollongong - search the catalogue.

University of Wollongong Library

Wollongong City Library

Wollongong City Library - Search the catalogue, renew and place holds

Literature

Aesop's Fables Online - Thousands of versions of Aesop's fables, in five languages

American Verse Project - Full text poetry published prior to 1920.

Australian authors and illustrators - Information on authors and illustrators of Australian children's and young adult works

Australian Authors and Illustrators for Young People - Websites and web pages with information on authors and illustrators of Australian children's and young adult works and a number of adult works of interest to school students

Australian Literature on the Internet

Author Pseudonyms - some authors write under many different names. This site links these names together.

Authors YellowPages - AuthorYellowPages.com is a searchable directory of author websites

Baldwin Library of Children's Literature - Includes over 2500 fully digitized children's books.

BartlebyVerse - American

BookHive - guide to children's literature

Children's Book Council of Australia: Early Childhood Category Winners - List of category-winning books.

Children's Book Council of Australia: Older Readers Category Winners - List of category-winning books.

Children's Book Council of Australia: Picture Book Category Winners - List of category-winning books.

Children's Book Council of Australia: Younger Readers Category Winners - List of category-winning books.

Children's Literature - One of the key features of the site is the Themed Reviews. You can get a list of best books on almost 60 topics such as Remembering September 11th, 2001, Dinosaurs, Gardening, TV Turn Off Week, or Space Exploration. There is also biographical information about authors and illustrators

Children's Literature Web Guide

Complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

de Grummond Children's Literature Collection

Encyclopedia Mythica - An encyclopedia of folklore, mythology and legend

EServer - A growing online community where hundreds of writers, artists, editors and scholars gather to publish and discuss their works

Focus on Fiction - Developed by the West Australian Dept of Education and Training to promote the reading of fiction for enjoyment. Includes section on authors & illustrators and reviews

Folklore and Mythology - A directory of folklore and mythology electronic texts arranged by theme

FreeBooknotes - A comprehensive guide to free book summaries, literature notes and study guides for over 250 books

Great Literature Online

Guide to Australian Literary Manuscripts

International Children's Digital Library - A project to create a digital library of international children's books in different languages

Jane Austen's World - Find information about Jane Austen, her world, and the people she knew.

Jean Hersholt: The Complete Andersen - The Complete Andersen is a rather extensive collection of Andersen's tales - and this is the most comprehensive edition of Andersen's fairy tales in English (American) on the internet.

John Donne - This site features the complete works of John Donne,including spoken word versions of many of his poems. The additional resources section contains biographical sketches of Donne and critical essays on his works

Literary Criticism Collection

Literary Gothic - Web guide to all things concerned with literary Gothicism, which includes ghost stories, 'classic' Gothic novels and Gothic fiction (1764-1820), and related pre- and post-Gothic and supernaturalist literature written prior to the mid-C20.

Literary History.com - Begun in 1998, this index to free Internet articles on English and American literature is convenient and useful for students, scholars, writers, teachers, reading groups, and general readers. All links lead directly to articles meeting academic standards

LiteraryAwards.com.au - Covers the Australian Literary Award scene from A-Z

Literature for Children - Literature for Children is a collection of the treasures of children's literature published largely in the United States and Great Britain from before 1850 to beyond 1950

Novelguide.com - The premier free source for literary analysis on the web. We provide an educational supplement for better understanding of classic and contemporary literature

PinkMonkey.com - Literature Notes, Literature Classics, Study Guides, Online Textbooks. All FREE, all the time

Poetry Archive - The poetry archive is the world’s premier online collection of recordings of poets reading their poetry

Poetry Archives - Contains thousands of copyright free poems

Poetry International Web - A worldwide forum for poetry on the internet

Poets' Corner - The aim of this site is to create the largest, most diverse, and most user-friendly public library of poetic works ever assembled.

poets.org - From the academy of American poets - a collection of over 500 poet biographies, 1400 poems, and 100 audio clips

Read Print - An online library offering thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast.

Read.gov - Online books, suggested booklists, author webcasts, teaching resources. From the Library of Congress.

Scholastic Australia - Authors & Illustrators

Shakespeare - The Complete Works of Shakespeare

Shakespeare Searched - This is a search engine "designed to provide quick access to passages from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets." Search results can be viewed by topic (such as love or death), work, and character

Shakespeare Theme Page

SparkNotes - Study guides

The Cambridge History of English and American Literature - This work was originally published from 1907 to 1921 by G.P. Putnam's Sons in the U.S. and Cambridge University Press in England.

The Little Big Book Club - Assists adults in choosing age appropriate books for young children. Each month, the club’s selection committee chooses a book for each age group 0 – 2 years (pre talkers), 2 & 3 years (talkers) and 4 & 5 years (pre readers).

The Poetry Tool - Find poems and poets. From the Poetry Foundation.

The Robert Louis Stevenson Website - The most comprehensive site dedicated to Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), providing resources for academics, school children, and people interested in learning about the author.

The Source - a guide to children's literature - includes subject guide, poetry, picture books, novels
[ Available only in the library - ask staff for username & password.]

The South Coast-Illawarra CBCA - A regional sub branch of the NSW Branch the of Children's Book Council of Australia.

The Style File - An online showcase for Australian book illustrators - includes biographical information

The works of Banjo Paterson

Today in literature - Features a new original biographical story each day about the great writers, books, and events in literary history. Also includes links to recommended websites where you will find author biographies, electronic texts, reviews, quotes and other reference materials for book clubs, students, and teachers.

Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895 - 1,274 works by 343 authors representing the full course of one of the great literary ages of English verse

Writing Tips - These tips are for genre writers not literary writers, for storytellers not writers of semi-autobiographical memoirs.

Local

(IPAC) Illawarra Performing Arts Centre - Home of Merrigong Theatre Company - Whats On, Venue Info, Artistic Program, News, Contacts

ABC Illawarra NSW - The only information based station covering the area from Helensburgh to Ulladulla and across the Highlands

Air quality in the Illawarra - environment and pollution

Beneath Black Skies - Illawarra coal mining stories beneath the surface

BHP Billiton Illawarra Coal - Includes information on mining and the environment and also a link for School Projects

BlueScope Steel - This site includes a history of BlueScope Steel and information about steelmaking for students

Cemeteries of South Coast & Illawarra Region - Contains transcriptions of cemetery records and tombstone inscriptions

Climate averages - Wollongong

Community Information - Contact details for local community groups, organisations, services, programs, courses, facilities and events

Computer Fairs Australia

Computer Markets

Council Community Update as advertised in 'The Advertiser' - Council Community update pages available for the current week. See under Related Documents and select Community Update Page One, Page Two

Futureworld - The Futureworld Eco-Technology Centre is an exciting facility open to the public that demonstrates innovative environmentally friendly technologies

Grand Pacific Drive - Just 1 hour south of Sydney, Grand Pacific Drive encompasses some of NSW’s most spectacular scenery and coastline

Historical Records of the Illawarra Region of NSW, Australia - A Chronological Guide to Sources and Events

History of Helensburgh - Dedicated to the recording and preservation of the social history of Helensburgh and its environs

Illawarra Business Chamber - The Illawarra Business Chamber (IBC) is a member-based not for profit business support organisation.

Illawarra Church Links - An alphabetical list of Christian Churches in the Illawarra prepared by the Five Islands Christian Ministries.

Illawarra Coal - An unofficial history of coal mining in the Illawarra.

Illawarra Coke Company - Company profile of the Illawarra Coke Company

Illawarra Events Directory from About-Australia.com - Listing an Illawarra Events Directory. Also including Region and Travel Information

Illawarra Familes First Transition to School - This site is dedicated to promoting an optimal transition for children entering formal schooling by providing current research-based information, available avenues of practical support across the Illawarra and links to related resources

Illawarra Fly Treetop Walk - The Illawarra Fly treetop walk is an elevated steel canopy walk through the rainforest on the Illawarra escarpment, offering unique views to Lake Illawarra and the coast.This attraction is due to open in March 2008.

Illawarra Historical Society Inc & Illawarra Museum

Illawarra Images on the Web - A collection of images of people, places and events covering the local area from the mid 1800s

Illawarra Images on the Web - historical image collection from Wollongong City Library and the Illawarra Historical Society.

Illawarra Index - An index to references to the Illawarra area from newspapers and other publications 1788 to the present (Select Illawarra Index from the left menu bar)

Illawarra Mercury - read the daily news, features, classifieds

Illawarra Migration Heritage Project - The Migration Heritage Project is a community initiative designed to protect and promote the heritage of Illawarra's diverse cultural communities

Illawarra Transport - transport in the Illawarra - bus, taxis, trains and bicycle maps.

IRIS Research - local statistics, regional profiles.

Lake Illawarra Authority - Lake facts, Lake map, life in the Lake. Lots of school project material.

Lighthouses of New South Wales - Wollongong Head Lighthouse

Looking back - A collection of short history articles about the Wollongong region of NSW Australia

Michael Organ Home Page 2011 - Articles on the early history of the Illawarra

Northern Leader - The Northern Leader is locally produced by Southern Independent Publishers. Includes access to old editions

NSW Ocean Baths - Illawarra Region - Historical information about ocean baths in the Illawarra Region - includes photographs

Oceanlinx - Oceanlinx is a leading international developer of wave technology for renewable energy and clean water.

Port Kembla Port Corporation - Information about the history, development and operations of the port

Remnant bushland database

Science Centre and Planetarium - An interesting tourist destination.Very "hands-on".

Sea Cliff Bridge - The Sea Cliff Bridge forms part of the Grand Pacific Drive and is located on scenic Lawrence Hargrave Drive, 60 kms south from central Sydney (or 23 kms north of Wollongong). It was opened on December 11, 2005.

South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Area Health Service - Includes demographics, information about local health services and consumer health information

Southern Gateway Centre - The complex incorporates a visitor information centre, a restaurant and kiosk, an Aboriginal discovery centre and viewing platforms over the escarpment.

Sustainable Illawarra - The vision for this project is for the Illawarra councils to balance their social, environmental and economic goals to ensure a sustainable and adaptable future.

Tallawarra - Development of the Tallawarra site

Theatre in Wollongong - what's on in Wollongong, Kiama & Shellharbour.

Tourism Wollongong - accommodation, recreation, restaurants, clubs, what's on & lots more

Unanderra Hostel - Unanderra Hostel memories

University of Wollongong - courses, facilities, maps etc

WIN Sports and Entertainment Centres - The WIN Sports & Entertainment Centres is designed as a multipurpose facility which hosts a variety of concerts, conventions, exhibitions seminars, gala dinners and outdoor and indoor sporting events.

Wollongong City Centre Business Improvement District - Information about Wollongong's major retail centre with links to a vast range of facilities and attractions for the tourist and residents.

Wollongong City Community Atlas - The Community Atlas includes key socio-demographic characteristics for Wollongong City presented as interactive maps.

Wollongong City Council Community Events Calendar - Upcoming activities and community events in Wollongong

Wollongong City Council Community Profile - Wollongong City Council Community Profile includes results from the 2006, 2001, 1996, and 1991 Censuses of Population and Housing

Wollongong City Gallery - News, Exhibitions & Events, General Info, The Collection, Submitting Proposals, Education

Wollongong City Memorial Gardens & Cemeteries - Information about Wollongong City Council cemeteries.

Wollongong Climate Action Network - Aims to encourage, enable and involve people to take action both individually and collectively; exert political influence at all levels of government to take action on Climate Change; put Climate Change on business and community group agendas.

Media

ABC Illawarra NSW - The only information based station covering the area from Helensburgh to Ulladulla and across the Highlands

ABC Online

afr.com - Financial Review - The archives of Fairfax Business Media publications. Includes Financial Review, BRW and Smart Investor

Asia News Network - A network of national daily newspapers published in Asian cities, organized to optimize coverage of major news events in the region.

Australian Newspapers - Includes Sydney Morning Herald from 1842-1954

Australian Newspapers Online - Search for Australian online newspapers by title, state or town.

Australian TV Guide - Online guide to free and pay TV programmes throughout Australia.

BBC Online

Cursor.org - a progressive news magazine focusing on world news and alternative media perspectives. For International news read the mass media

Daily Telegraph

Encyclopedia of Television - Includes more than 1,000 original essays from more than 250 contributors and examines specific programs and people, historic moments and topics such as violence, tabloid television and the quiz show scandal. Articles cover Australia, Canada, the United States and Britain

Fairfax Classifieds

Fairfax Digital - Sydney Morning Herald,The Age,Sun Herald, Australian Financial Review, Business Review Weekly, BusinessOnlineAsia, Personal Investment, CitySearch, classifieds etc.

Fairfax Library Edition - SMH 2006+ - This new generation digital product delivers an identical replica of The SMH printed edition. It contains every page, article, photo, table, advertisement and cartoon published in the printed edition.
[ Available only in the library - ask staff for username & password.]

Google News - Search and browse 4,500 news sources updated continuously

Illawarra Mercury

Kidon Media-Link - Directory of world newspapers and other news sources on the internet.

Memorable television - The biggest TV information site on the web featuring dedicated sections for the USA, UK, Australia as well as Canada. Hit shows from around the world plus dedicated game show, talk show and children's tv sections

News Map - Click on a country/region to retrieve news about that country

News Store (Fairfax Digital) - Search the Fairfax newspapers. You have to pay for any articles but you could bring your list of dates to the Reference Library & locate the articles on our microfilm.

news.com - Australian news network.

Newsclassifieds

Newstext - Search the last 30 days of the News Corporation newspapers for free

Nine TV Network

Online newspapers

Online newspapers - Thousands of world newspapers at your fingertips

Paperworld - Paper World offers a wide range of original major daily newspapers, magazines and other date related memorabilia from Australia and New Zealand dating back over 100 years

Places in the news - Up-to-date maps that locate areas relating to situations covered by news organizations. Provides descriptions, information and satellite pictures

SBS

Seven Network

Sydney Morning Herald Archives - Search every edition of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun-Herald between 1955-1995
[ Available only in the library - ask staff for username & password.]

The Age

The Australian

The Christian Science Monitor - news articles from 1980 to date.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Times Archive - Every issue of The Times published between 1785-1985, digitally scanned and fully searchable

Trading Post On-line

Vox FM - A non-profit community radio station servicing the over 50’s market, ethnic and alternate youth in the Illawarra

WIN TV Illawarra

Yahoo! News and Events

Recreation

Association of Societies for Growing Australian Plants - A site for those interested in the cultivation, propagation, conservation and appreciation of Australia's native flora.

Australia Post Stamps - About Stamps - Find out why people collect stamps, why some are so valuable, and how to get started with your own collection.

Australian athlete profiles

Australian Sport Directory - A searchable database containing details of Australian national sporting organisations

Australian Sports Commission - all you need to know from the Australian Sports Commission.

Autosource - An Australian car & automotive website directory which allows you to find car parts, car dealers, car clubs etc

Cars.com - car reviews, buying guides, advice & tips, performance & specifications

Collectors (ABC TV) - The official website of the popular ABC television series.

Communities - Sport and Recreation

Conservation Register: How to Care for ... - Fact sheets giving general advice on the care and conservation of a range of different materials or objects.

cuisine.com.au - Fabulous recipes from Australia's top chefs as featured in The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and NZ Cuisine magazine.

Cultural Gifts Program - List of Approved Valuers - A list of valuers approved by the Australian Government Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts.

Driver Knowledge Tests - Link to Driver Knowledge Test Questions and Drive Knowlege Test online demonstration

eBay Australia - eBay is the world's online marketplace; a place for buyers and sellers to come together and trade almost anything.

eHow - How to do just about everything

Epicurious - The world's greatest recipe collection

Flora for fauna - Attract native birds, butterflies, and other fauna to your garden

Gardening Australia - Website of the popular ABC gardening program. Includes an archive of fact sheets.

Gifts - wishlist.com.au - gifts for all occasions.

Greater Union Cinemas

Hoyts Cinemas

Official Website of the Olympic Movement

Old Aussie Food Recipes - Classic and Traditional Australian Recipes

Pitstop workshop manual finder - To find a workshop manual for your vehicle, click on the manufacturer to the left and then choose the relevant model

PlantCare.com - A database of over 2,000 species and genera of indoor plants

Renovate - A one-stop shop for information and services for the home renovator.

She Buys - The most innovative feature packed automotive website for women. Dedicated to providing information, guidance and tips when it comes to looking to buy, sell or simply maintain your car.

Taste.com.au - Australia's largest online recipe collection

Ticketek Australia - book your tickets.

Ticketmaster - book your tickets on-line.

Uni Movies - Find out what movies are on at Wollongong University

Village Cinemas

Zazz - Online shopping site - just one product on sale for 24 hours.

Reference Desk

Abbreviations.com - Search acronyms and abbreviations

Anagram Server

Auslan Signbank - Auslan is the language of the deaf community of Australia. Signbank is an interactive dictionary of Auslan (Australian Sign Language).

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare - Australia's national agency for health and welfare statistics and information

Australian Postcode Search

Australian School and Public Holidays

Australian Statistical Internet Sites

Babel Fish Translation

BibMe! - The quickest way to build a bibliography on the web

Black Stump words page - anagrams, cliches, palindromes, proverbs, quotations etc

Calendar Zone - celestial, daily, historic, religious calendars & lots more

Chamber's Book of Days - An electronic reprint of the original Chamber's Book of Days.

Citation Style Guides

Concise Dictionary of First Names - Search the 6,000 names in the Concise Dictionary of First Names to find out what your name really means or to choose the name for your new baby.

Convertworld - Allows you to convert between currencies, weight, volume, mass, time, distance and more.Includes international shoe size conversions.

Country Calling Codes - Provides a searchable list of international telephone codes no matter where you are in the world.

Country, Economy & Regional Information - This site from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trades gives extensive information on a wide array of countries and islands. Updated regularly, it gives pertinent information such as current Heads of State, the flags, currencies, population and travel information

dictionary.com

Do Not Call Register - In response to concerns about the increasing levels of telemarketing calls the Government has introduced a national Do Not Call Register.

Easter Dating Method - The complete procedure for calculating Easter Sunday dates for all years 326 to 4099 A.D

EasyBib - The free automatic bibliography composer

Encyclopedia of the Orient - A one-stop online resource which covers all countries and cultures between Mauritania in the west and Iran in the east, Turkey in the north and Sudan in the south.

Encyclopedia.com - (U.S.A.)- search more than 17,000 articles from The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia

ePrintableCalendars.com - An easy to use website which allows you to view or print out calendars by month or year, and in various sizes.

Etymology Dictionary - A dictionary of word origins

Events and Dates - A comprehensive calendar outlining Australian school terms and events, as well as various events and public / religious holidays from around the world, including United Nations designated days and years.

Forbes Lists - Interesting lists such as the top companies, top celebrities, richest people.

Glossarist.com - glossaries, dictionaries, topical dictionaries including science, computers, education, entertainment, health, symbol dictionaries and lots more

Google Translate - Translation service which now offers single-word translations in addition to other translation features

iLoveLanguages - Your guide to languages on the web. Links to online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software, language schools and more

Labour market statistics - Monthly labour market and vacancy statistics, plus research on agreement-making and employee share ownership from Dept of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations

Languages of the World - Learn about language families and individual languages and dialects throughout the world.

MacquarieNet - By entering a word or phrase, MacquarieNet searches an entire database of encyclopedias, articles, dictionaries, images, atlases, links and news items, and calls up heaps of relevant information. It's that simple! (To access from home use the barcode from your Library card)

NationMaster.com - This Australian site takes material from the CIA World Factbook and other sources to generate material that allows users to compare countries based on many different statistics. Some information is only available by subscription

NRMA Petrol Watch - Search for the cheapest fuel in your area

NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics & Research - Crime statistics

OECD - Statistics portal

OECD Factbook - "Labour market data, broken down by age, gender, part-time working or self-employment provide just some of the 100 major indicators to be found in this annual digest of economic, environmental and social statistics covering the organisations 30 member nations."

Offstats: Official Statistics on the Web - Portal for 'official' statistics sites around the world. This includes government agencies, international organisations, NGOs and similar sources.

Online Conversions - Online conversions for length, weight, temperature, area, volume, speed, frequency, light, cooking, currency and shoes

Oxford Online Dictionaries - the Oxford Paperback Dictionary & Thesaurus, the Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and the Oxford Dictionary of First Names, together with word of the day, word games, crosswords, grammar and usage tips.

Percent calculator

Plain English guide - Provides free plain-language articles, tips and writing tutorials, Web links, news, networking opportunities, professional support, and e-mail discussion group.

Population and Housing Projections - Population and house and dwelling projections for New South Wales as a whole and 13 regions of the state.

Portals to the world - Links to electronic resources from around the world

Postcode Snapshot - The Home Price Guide Postcode Price Snapshot gives you, for free, the latest and most up to date residential property price information.

Poverty Rates by Electorate 2004-05

Pronounce Names - Dictionary of Name Pronunciation

Refdesk.com - good source for facts.

Research-It! - Your one-stop reference desk

Rulers - This site contains lists of heads of state and heads of government of all countries and territories, going back to about 1700

Scholarpedia - The free peer reviewed encyclopedia written by scholars from all around the world

Search-22: Reference Searches - Includes dictionaries, almanacs, quotation finders and more

Slang Dictionary - Covering over 16,000 English language slang and dialect terms from around the world

Symbols.com - An online encyclopedia of graphic symbols

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation - Use this site to find the answers to your questions concerning proper English grammar and punctuation

time and date.com - Calendars for any year.

UN International Days - The days and weeks officially recognised by the United Nations

Understanding Statistics - A variety of tools and resources to assist you to understand, interpret and evaluate statistical information.

Visual dictionary - Annotated images that identify each part of a given item, such as an automobile or a musical instrument

WHITE PAGES - Telstra - does include Australian information.

Wikipedia - Welcome to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit

World Factbook

World Population

World Statesmen - A list of the heads of state & government for all countries and territories dating back to 1700. Entries also include historical outlines, flag, anthem & constitutional information.

World Time

WorldReference.com - Online French, Italian and Spanish Dictionary

YELLOW PAGES - Telstra

yourDictionary.com

Religion & Philosophy

Advent - Includes information about Advent as well as the History of Christmas and Christmas Carols

Bible Gateway - Search the Bible in 9 languages

BUBL LINK 200 Religion

Christmas - a multicultural festival - the changing face of Christmas

Christmas around the world

Christmas in Australia - Information about the way Christmas is celebrated in Australia.

Christmas season celebrations in Australia - Learn how Christmas is celebrated in Australia

Christmas Trees & More - Information about Christmas tree types, selection and care, and traditions. Includes recipes for cookie ornaments, fun facts, and related links

Easter & the Joy of Life - The Easter Collection: Victorian greeting cards and scraps celebrating Eastertide and the arrival of Springtime

Easter at Kids' Domain - Includes Easter activities as well as links to Religious Sites for kids, history and online stories

Encyclopedia Mythica - Encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion. Divided into six geographical regions: Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania.

How did Christmas start? - where did it come from? Where is it going?

In the Beginning: Bibles Before the Year 1000 - The sections of the site tell the stories of the earliest printed Bibles and also how readings from early Bibles brought the Old and New Testaments to life in a very vivid fashion

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Internet Sacred Text Archive - World religions, traditions, mysteries

Islamic studies, Islam, Arabic and religion - scholarly resources on Islam and related subjects from Dr Alan Godlas, professor of religion at the University of Georgia.

Merry-Christmas.com - Gift ideas, gift baskets, Christmas games and Christmas music

Philosophy links

Religion and Ethics - BBC - Information and news coverage about religion and ethics. Discussion of various world religions and a number of subjects in the field of ethics, such as the ethics of war, euthanasia, human cloning, and genetic engineering

Religion Newswriters Association - Contains a religion news headline update service

Sacred destinations - A growing catalogue and travel guide to more than 1,500 sacred sites, holy places, pilgrimage destinations, historical sites, religious buildings and religious art around the world

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - A dynamic reference work that maintains academic standards while evolving and adapting in response to new research

The Bible, King James Version

The Catholic Encyclopedia - Proposes to give its readers full and authoritative information on the entire cycle of Catholic interests, action and doctrine.

The Christmas Archives - How Christmas is celebrated in countries round the world

The Easter Page - Traditions, history, dates

The Religion Report - From the ABC's Radio National. A guide to religious affairs in Australia and around the world.

Treasures in Full - Gutenberg Bible - On this site you will find the British Library’s two copies of Johann Gutenberg’s Bible, the first real book to be printed using the technique of printing which Gutenberg invented in the 1450s

Virtual religion index - A comprehensive, annotated directory of religion on the internet

What is Scientology?

Yahoo! Christmas

Yahoo! Christmas carols

Yahoo! Easter - History, humour, cards, gifts, eggs, activities, crafts and .......the meaning behind it all.

Science

Animal Diversity Web - An online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology.

Animals - Facts, information, photos,sounds, habitats, reports and news about Animals from National Geographic.

ausinvent - Innovation Services Online - An Internet service to promote innovation and stimulate the development of new products and business expansion

Australia Innovates - Includes a selection of the most significant innovations and inventions developed by Australians since Federation.

Australian faunal directory - A source of taxonomic and biological information on all animal species known to occur in Australia

Aviation sites - a directory of web sites with an emphasis on military aviation.

Avibase: The World Bird Database - An extensive database information system about all birds of the world, containing over 1.4 million records about 10,000 species and 22,000 subspecies of birds, including distribution information, taxonomy, synonyms in several languages

Birds Australia - RAOU Home (our nest) - about birds, watch birds, help birds, study birds.

Community Access to Natural Resources Information (CANRI) - key environmental information from NSW government agencies

Department of Climate Change

Department of the Environment and Heritage - Develops and implements national policy, programs and legislation to protect and conserve Australia's natural environment and cultural heritage

Digital Atlas Of Marine Species And Locations - An interactive database, which catalogues marine life in photographs by geographic location while providing encyclopedic content.

Directory of Important Wetlands in Australia - From the Australian Government - Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities.

Ecos - The full text of Ecos, Australia's most authoritative magazine on the science of sustainability in the environment and industry

Electronic Zoo - animal resources

Encyclopedia of earth - A new electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society

EqWorld - The world of mathematical equations

Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy

Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry

Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Fish at the Australian Museum

FishBase - 24,000 Species, 41,000 Synonyms, 91,000 Common names, 18,000 Pictures, 18,000 References.

Food Standards Australia New Zealand

Free patents online - Provides fast, easy-to-use access to millions of patents

Fuel Consumption Guide - Reliable comparative data on the fuel consumption of new passenger cars and four-wheel drives and light commercial vehicles up to 2.7 tonnes gross vehicle mass

Genome News Network - Stories about human medicine, microbes, biotechnology, and agriculture. Includes a basic overview of the topic in the "What's a Genome" area.

Geometry - This site is simple to navigate and is divided into subtopics that include coordinate geometry, dissection, distance, line geometry, and several dozen other fields of interest

Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body - Features 1,247 vibrant engravings,many in colour,from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries.

Greenpeace Australia Pacific - Includes information on ongoing environmental campaigns in biodiversity, genetically engineered food, toxic and nuclear wastes, and pollution prevention.

How Digital Television Works - Analog, digital, HD, HDTV and lots more.

How products are made - How Products Are Made explains and details the manufacturing process of a wide variety of products, from daily household items to complicated electronic equipment and heavy machinery

How Stuff Works!

Inventors

IP Australia Home Page - Intellectual Property information including patents, trademarks, designs and copyright

Learn genetics - Helping people understand our genetics affects their lives and society

NASA Homepage - see a launch or learn more about the exploration of space

National Geographic: Prehistoric Time Line - The events covered in the time-line include the initial formation of the Earth all the way up to the recent Ice Ages and the birth of modern humans.

National Technical Information Service (NTIS)

Nature Conservation Council of NSW - lots of environment topics

NSW Agriculture - animals, crops, horticulture, diseases, weeds etc

NSW National Parks

Obsolete Technology - Rare, vintage and obsolete computers. Includes a timeline, images of the computers, and links for buying the machines or parts. Also contains tips on researching ancient computer technology

PhoneChoice - PhoneChoice is Australia's most established and comprehensive site for all your Telecommunications needs. You will find independent, unbiased advice and solutions.

Physics.org - The best physics resources all in one place

Planet Ark - World environment news

Popular Mechanics - whether it's in print or on the Net, Popular Mechanics takes the same approach in both modes of communication–explaining how things work in a way that everyone can understand. Areas covered include science, technology, automotive,

Prehistoric Life - Educational resources on prehistoric life from the BBC

ReefBase - A global information system on Coral Reefs

Robotics alliance project - Developed by NASA to encourage people of all ages to become involved in science and engineering, particularly robotics.

SciCentral - gateway to the best science and engineering online resources and research news

Science & Engineering Encyclopaedia - The idea behind the product is to replace the standard data and formula books that should be on every engineer and scientist's bookshelf with an easy to use electronic version

ScienceDaily - One of the Internet's leading online magazines and Web portals devoted to science, technology, and medicine

Scirus - Searches web and journal sources for scientific content

Stem Cell Research

Technology in Australia 1788-1988

The Best of PhysicsWeb - The Best of PhysicsWeb brings together articles about the most exciting areas of modern physics in a single place on PhysicsWeb

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - The IPCC has been established to assess scientific, technical and socio- economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change.

The Merck Veterinary Manual - The single most comprehensive electronic reference for animal care information

The Physics Classroom - A High School Physics tutorial

The World Conservation Union - A network which brings together 83 nations, 110 Government agencies, and 10,000 scientists and experts.

Threatened species network

United Nations Environment Program

Uranium Information Centre - Information on uranium and nuclear energy

Water Encyclopedia - Articles about all aspects of water science and its history

Wildlife Web Directory

World meteorological association - The UN system’s authoritative voice on the state and behaviour of the Earth’s atmosphere, its interaction with the oceans, the climate it produces and the resulting distribution of water resources. Includes archived and current information about world weather, news, major issues and hot topics.

World Resources Institute (WRI)

Search Engines & Subject Directories

Athenus - Athenus.com is the search engine of choice for scientists and engineers seeking resources in science and engineering on the web.

Bing - Microsoft's general-purpose search engine.

Blue Web'n - A searchable library of 1800+ outstanding Internet learning sites categorised by subject area, audience, and type

BUBL Link - A catalogue of internet resources covering all academic subject areas

Clusty - Instead of delivering millions of search results in one long list, Clusty groups similar results together into clusters, which help you see your search results by topic so you can zero in on exactly what you’re looking for or discover unexpected relationships between items.

CompletePlanet - The deep web directory

Google - One of our favourite search engines. Fast and comprehensive. It includes lots of Australian content.

Google Advanced Search - Some good tips for doing Advanced Searches on Google

Google Directory

Google Scholar - A free service for searching specifically scholarly literature including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research

Infomine - A Librarian built directory that concentrates on scholarly resources

IPL Ready Reference Collection - (U.S.A.)- authoritative

Librarians' Index to the Internet - (U.S.A.)

Lookle Australia - An internet search engine that searches through Australian web sites only.Displays search results with a thumbnail picture of each site.

Mashpedia - Provides a basic definition, the latest related news, videos, images, twitter messages and relevant links for a topic. As real-time contents are ranked with the most recent coming first, Mashpedia can provide new information each day. Useful for specific topics such as concepts, subjects, personalities, events, places, companies, products, etc., but not for broader, unspecific searches.

My Language - Provides access to search engines, web directories and news in over sixty languages.

PINAKES (U.K.) - metasites of quality resources

Portals to the world from the Library of Congress - These pages link you to the best web pages available for every and any country

Research beyond google - 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources. Topics include search engines, art, online books, business, consumer, finance, government, international, law, health, science, and transportation

Search Engine Links

Search Engine Showdown - The user's guide to web searching

Search Engine Watch - Quick guide to how search engines work and latest developments

The Argus Clearinghouse - (U.S.A.) - topical guides with evaluated resources

The Info Service - the world's best Reference source

Those dark hiding places: the invisible web revealed - Tips and links to help you find hidden content on the web

Wolfram Alpha - A computational search engine designed to answer complex search queries by returning a single result.

Yahoo

Yahoo! Image Search - Yahoo's new and improved Image Search resource provides the latest celebrity and news images, photos, illustrations, and more

Seniors

Australian Senior Publications - Australia’s premier newspaper group targeting the over 50’s demographic.

Australian Seniors Computer Clubs Association - ASCCA is the national peak body for seniors and technology.

Baby Boomers' Life Change - A site for those people in their 50s & 60s who really believe they're in their 30s & 40s.

How to Retire Happy - Your retirement will be as unique as your fingerprint. There is no "one way" to enjoy retirement. It's up to you to design the life you'd love to live.

Information for retirees, or people who will be retiring soon - Financial tips and safety checks provided by the Australian Securities & Investments Commission.

National Seniors Australia - Productive Ageing Centre - NSPAC has been established to undertake consumer-oriented research into productive ageing, and to provide education about all aspects of productive ageing through promotion and information.

Needing help after someone has died - View or download this booklet. Provides information about payments and services you may be able to get if you need help after someone has died

Online memory games - Online games to help you to exercise the brain and stay mentally active

Quick Guide to Health Literacy and Older Adults - This site provides useful strategies and suggestions to professionals who work with older adults to help bridge the communication gap between professionals and older adults.

seniors.gov.au - the online source for all Australians over 50 - A single point of access to Government and non-Government information and services for older Australians.

Telstra connected seniors - Telstra Connected Seniors is a tailored program created to help older Australians learn more about technology.

The Grey Nomads - If you are one of the growing army of grey nomads discovering, or hoping to discover, the joys of the open road, then this site is for you.

Your Sea Change - Australia's only on-line magazine for people who want to sea change or tree change.

Travel

Airlines Of The Web

AirSafe.com - Provides air travellers, aviation professionals, and members of the news media with comprehensive and timely information about events that affect airline safety and security

American Fact Finder - From the U.S. Census Bureau.

As the Cocky Flies - As the Cocky Flies will calculate the distance between two places in Australia.

Atlapedia Online

Australian Rail Maps - National, regional and city passenger railways and information.

Australian Town Index

BBC Languages - Learn French, German, Spanish, Italian and other languages online

Best Flights - discounted air tickets search for low air fares

CityRail Timetables

Directory of Airline Web Sites - Comprehensive list of world airlines with links to their web sites.

Driving distances round Australia - Driving distances between some of the major towns, cities and areas within and around Australia

Excite travel

Flags of all Countries

Flight duration finder - Find out what the shortest flying time is between two cities

Fodor's Travel Guides - Online travel site by the world's most popular travel book company.

Guide to Australia

Hostelling International - The most recommended hostels worldwide

How far is it

I want that flight - Allows you to compare Qantas, VirginBlue, Jetstar and Tiger Airways flights quickly

Jetstar Airways

Lonely Planet on-line

Mappy - Offers the Europe-bound traveller information about various destinations and how to get there. On the homepage, visitors can find point-to-point directions from locations throughout the continent and Great Britain. The site also has a mapping function for forty different countries

Maps and Geography from National Geographic

Oz Tourism - Provides Australian holiday planners with an overview of what they can expect to find and an introduction to the major attractions and activities throughout all the states.

Project Visa - Visa and Embassy information

Qantas Airways

Rail Europe - European rail passes, tickets, maps and schedules. Prices in Australian dollars.

Sacred Destinations Travel Guide - An ecumenical guide to more than 1,100 sacred sites, holy places, pilgrimage destinations, religious architecture and sacred art in 55 countries around the world.

Seat Guru - See exactly which seats on a specific plane are superior or substandard. Seat Guru's colour-coded plane plans make it really easy to spot the seats that you do or don't want to sit in.

Small Luxury Hotels of the World - A collection of over 400 independent hotels in more than 65 countries.

Smartraveller - The Australian Government's travel advisory and consular assistance service.

The Real Australian Outback - The guide covers a lot more than the usual tourist attractions in Outback Australia

The World Factbook

Travel Advisories - To help Australians avoid difficulties overseas, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade maintains travel advisories for more than 160 destinations.

Travel Math - Provides an online travel calculator to help you find answers quickly. If you're planning a trip you can measure things like travel distance and travel time.

Travel Tips for Women Traveling Solo - Tips include packing, health, safety, etiquette

TravelASSIST - Bed and Breakfast

Travellers Medical And Vaccination Advice

Travelmate.com.au - Use this site to plan travel within Australia

Trip Advisor - 5,000,000+ traveler reviews & opinions of hotels, vacations & more

Virgin Blue

Virtual Tourist

Volunteering Vacations - opportunities to work in various worthy fields while on holidays.

Whereis Street Atlas (Sydney,Brisbane etc) - search for a place

World Airport Guide - Information on major world airports,including fast facts for services such as parking, ground transportation, duty-free shops, business centres and lounges.

World Resources Institute (WRI) - a collection of policies, publications

World Trade Organisation

Weather

Global climate change

Local South East Districts Forecast

Weather and warnings information - From the Australian Bureau Meteorology

weather zone - Australia's most comprehensive weather resource

Wollongong weather

World meteorological association - Includes archived and current information about world weather, news, major issues and hot topics.

World Weather Information Service - From the World Meteorological Society

Youth

Bullying. No way! - Initiated by Australia's educational communities to create learning environments where every student is free from bullying, violence, harassment and discrimination.

CAAN: Community Alcohol Action Network - CAAN works to reduce cultural pressures that encourage Australians to drink unsafely.

Centrelink - career information, services

Consumer Youth Website - for 16-20 year olds. "Check this site before you splash your cash"

Department of Family & Community Services - assistance, housing support, youth programs

Geared - The RTA's young driver website. Features tips and information about everything driver related.

Getting out: a young persons guide to independent living - Leaving home can be a challenging and stressful time. This website gives lots of good tips and links to useful resources to make the transition easier.

headspace illawarra - The headspace mission is to deliver improvements in the mental health, social wellbeing and economic participation of young Australian’s aged 12-25

Help When You Need It - Issues, life and study from Dr Michael Carr-Gregg an adolescent psychologist. Dr Carr-Gregg specialises in the area of parenting adolescents and adolescent mental health.

Hippo - An online service which helps young people find casual or part-time work.

Kids Help Line - Kids Help Line is Australia's only free, confidential and anonymous, telephone and online counselling service specifically for young people aged between 5 and 25.

Live Smart - Multilingual living skills website for young people. The website provides information in 6 languages (Arabic, Amharic, Dinka, Swahili, Karen and English). Covers areas such as health, housing and cooking tips and provides an online budgeting tool.

Mindzone - Offers personal stories and suggests strategies for coping with mental health disorders. Visitors may take part in polls, learn about personal strengths and how to deal with emotions, find facts about anxiety disorders, and question experts.

TeensHealth - A safe, private place for teens who need honest, accurate information and advice about health, emotions, and life.

The Scoop on Smoking - what every teen should know about tobacco - Designed to present to teenagers in a highly accessible, interactive manner, detailed facts about the health consequences of tobacco use.

Worksite - for secondary students - the ACTU site for schools with assignment help

Yahoo Health - provides health research, expert advice, healthy recipes, and more

Young Carers - Support and information for under 25's who provide care to a family member who has a long-term illness or disability.

Youth drug support - A website for young people when you're looking for info, wanting to chat with others or need a question answered

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