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| Antiques |
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Price It! Antiques and Collectibles
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An antique/collectibles pricing tool, containing data from a variety of sources, including online auctions (eBay), online antique dealers (GoAntiques & TIAS) and land-based auction houses. The database currently has over 23 million prices realized for art, antiques and collectibles in more than 100 categories and subcategories with over 10 million images. |
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Grove Art
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Full-text information about the visual arts - painting, scultpture, graphic arts, architecture & photography. The ultimate authority on every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory to the present day.
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Who's Who in Australia
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Is the authoritative reference to notable people in Australia. Meticulously researched, it includes contact information, and biographical details such as career achievements and major awards won. |
| Books and Literature |
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Books & Authors
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Assists users uncover new reading adventures, find long-remembered favourites, and discover award-winning titles. Search by genre, subject, author, title, series, and more. |
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Fiction Connection
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Discover titles similar to books you already enjoy. |
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Global Books in Print
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A directory of current English books, audio & video titles, including publisher, ISBN and pricing details. |
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Magpies
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A guide by subject to children's fiction, poetry and short stories from around the world. Emphasis on Australian books. |
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Novelist
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A Reader's advisory service for fiction for adults, teenagers and children. Use a favourite author or title as a template to locate other similar authors and titles of interest. This is a great tool for those wishing to discover new reading adventures. |
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Business Source Elite
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Contains more than 2,540 full text magazines and journals covering every aspect of business and is available through the ANZRC database. BSP also includes company profiles, market research reports and expanded PDF backfiles for many key titles. |
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Who's Who in Business
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An excellent resource for anyone conducting business related research. With over 24,000 biographies, 8,000 companies and 12,000 key staff references online, never before has it been so easy to find information on Australian businesses and the people who run them. |
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Tumblebooks
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Tumblebooks is a collection of picture books and chapter books that children can read at their own pace or that they can sit and listen to. |
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ZipTales
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Ziptales provides innovative, exciting, interactive reading resources and materials primarily targeting children. They are highly interactive and colourfully animated resources designed to encourage children to read. |
| Computers |
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The Computer School
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thecomputerschool.net is an online computer training organisation that specialises in easy-access online computer education.
The Computer Skills Index link contains hundreds of comprehensive computer training tutorials, with more continually being added. Tutorials include full colour, easy-to-follow screen-shots with step-by-step instructions covering an extensive and varied range of entry-level "How do I ?" learning topics;
Computer Basics - Email & the Internet - Internet Research & Design - eCommerce - Vista - Word 2007 - Photoshop - Publisher - Dreamweaver – Movie Maker – Front Page - PowerPoint - Access - Excel ... and much more. |
| Crafts |
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Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center
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Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center provides comprehensive full text content for many of the most popular hobbies, crafts and recreation activities today. Including full text for more than 740 magazines and books, as well as access to more than 720 videos and 140 hobby reports, this database offers detailed “how-to” instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby enthusiast. |
| Environment |
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Environment Complete
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Environment Complete contains more than 1,957,000 records from more than 1,700 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s, as well as more than 120 monographs. It offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, energy, geography, renewable energy sources, pollution & waste management, environmental law, social impacts and much more. |
| Genealogy |
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Ancestry Library Edition
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A new genealogy research tool which provides instant access to a wide range of unique resources for genealogical and historical research, including:
- US Federal census collections
- Birth, marriage & death records collections
- United Kingdom & Ireland census collections
- Family & local history collection
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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General Encyclopedia with adult, student and junior levels. An excellent resource for school assignments. |
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General Onefile
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More than 8000 Australian and international newspapers and magazines, on a wide range of topics. Includes access to the Choice magazine. |
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Masterfile Premier
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Journals and electronic reference books covering biography, general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and more. |
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Opposing Viewpoints
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A one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. |
| Health |
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Consumer Health Complete
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Covers all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. |
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Health & Wellness
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Specialised reference tool offering a vast collection of authoritative information, designed to answer health-related questions in a public library setting. |
| Music |
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Grove Music
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Full-text database from the Grove Dictionary of Music, New Grove Music & Musicians & Groves Dictionary of Opera. The ultimate authority on all aspects of music from Bach to the Blues.
NOTE: Home users will need to enter the prefix "HB" when they are asked to provide their barcode/membership number EG: HB25xxxxxxxx. |
| Newspapers |
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Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre
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Full-text newspaper, magazine and encyclopedia articles focusing on Australian issues. |
| Science |
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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
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LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings in libraries and information management. |
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Science Resource Centre
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Comprehensive database covering curriculum-related science topics. Contains thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations and the latest scientific developments. |