Library

Collection - Additional areas of interest

• North American studies and history  - Civil war and Civil rights
• Archaeology (A large collection of antiquarian books and journals was bought from the University of Sydney)
• Economic History (to the 1990s)
• New Zealand and the Pacific to the early 1990s including a donation on New Zealand history from Dr Heinz Kent in 1983
• Government publications focussing on the Social Sciences
  • As an Australian Government Publishing Service and Australian Bureau of Statistics deposit library, a strength is the federal, state and local level publications. A gift from the Victorian Parliamentary Library of a set of Victorian parliamentary papers 1837-1900and a large microfiche collection, Colonial statistics:  Australian Statistical publications 1804-1901 (3000 fiche), are noteworthy
  • Purchased from funds granted by the Victorian Law  Foundation were back sets of US government publications on microfiche including Statutes at large 1789-1982 and the Congressional record 1873-1985 which continue the hardcopy Annals of Congress, Register of debates and the Congressional globe thus giving a complete run of the debates of the US congress from 1789 onwards.
  • Canadian government publications ( a selective repository for Canadian Government publications - for some 19th and later 20th century materials including the Canadian Census from 1884 -1961 and Treaty series dating back to 1928
  • Great Britain ( notably 19th and 20th century parliamentary materials, including the British sessional papers comprising the House of Commons and Command papers from 1837-1900)
  • Publications of International organisations like the International Labour Office, the World Bank, and OECD
  • The Library is a European Documentation Centre receiving materials from the European Union
• Australian Literature and Canadian Literature to the late 1990s - During 1991, Janette Turner Hospital helped to develop the Commonwealth literature collection by identifying emerging authors
• Law – note the complete set of The revised reports : being a republication of such cases in the English Courts of Common Law and Equity, from the year 1785, as are still of practical utility.   donated by Sir Richard Eggleston
• Linguistics
• Politics - Including a collection of publications of the Communist Party of Australia and a donation from foundation Professor of Politics Professor Wolfsohn
• Cinema Studies/ Media studies (AV has a particularly current strong collection, which includes non English films and off air documentaries)
• Modern Indian History and politics
• Floras and Faunas to early 1980s
• Australian agriculture (esp. to the 1990s)
• Audiovisual areas - Cinema studies, Health Sciences, History, and the off-air – collection
• The generous Albrecht donation in the mid 1990s, allowed the University to build its non book collection in politics and history