Australiana Resource Guide, page 2

Print resources

The following items are a selection of key print materials available in the Library. Some of these items may be on the shelves in the La Trobe Reading Room. Others may need to be requested through our online catalogue, retrieved from storage and delivered to the book collection point in this room.

Australian Encyclopaedia. Australian Geographic Pty Ltd, Terrey Hills NSW, 1996
LTR 919.4003 AU7CH (1996)
An eight volume set with a broad coverage of Australian culture, history, geography and nature.

Chronicle of Australia. Penguin, Ringwood Vic, 2000

LTR 994 C46C (2000)
One of a number of reference books that have a year-by-year coverage of significant events in Australia.

Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1996-[2002]
LTR 920.094 AU792D
A biographical dictionary including entries on notable Australians from 1788 through to 1980. There is also a Biographical Register for people not included in the dictionary. 

Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture. Aboriginal Studies Press for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra, 1994

LTR 994.0049915 EN1H
Considered the first significant authoritative and comprehensive reference on all aspects of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture.

Oxford Companion to Australian Literature. Oxford University Press, Melbourne 1994

LTR A820.9 W664O (1994)
Apart from entries for some of Australia’s most significant authors and poets, this guide also has information on aspects of Australian culture history that have been depicted in our literature.

Bibliography of Australian Literature. Australian Scholarly Publishing, Kew Vic, 2001 - (A-E completed but ongoing)

LTR A820.94 B47AU
The first volume of a publication that aims to record the details of all published literature by Australians from 1788 to the present including poetry, fiction, drama and children’s writing. A-E has entries on over 3,000 authors with 10,000 titles.

Australians: a historical library. Fairfax, Syme & Weldon, Broadway NSW, 1987

LTR 994 AU7F
Published to celebrate Australia’s bi-centenary this multi-volume work covers all aspects of Australian life. One volume also provides comparative tables of statistics on Australians and aspects of Australian life.

Index to Journal Articles on Australian History

LTR 994 H67I
Indexes journal articles on all aspects of Australian History. Includes much earlier material than that covered by databases.

Victorian History and Politics: European Settlement to 1939: a survey of literature

LTR 994.5 M74V
Provides a brief discussion of different issues in Victorian history and extensive references to books on those particular subjects.

Melbourne: the city’s history and development. [City of Melbourne, Melbourne], c1994

LTR 994.5 L58M
Provides an overview of planning and architectural periods in Melbourne’s history with good bibliographies and illustrations.