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Home>Seeking Information>Our eLibrary (Our Digital Library)
Select from one of the many online resources available free to Our Library members. Search for basic geographic details or find articles on complex medical conditions.
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Search over 50 million records for Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands – millions of records that you won’t find available elsewhere online, including:
- Over 700,000 cemetery records from across Australia
- A vast collection of Australian and New Zealand electoral roll records
- Over 15 million government records including government gazettes, police gazettes and blue books
- Millions of religious records
- Over 10 million directories and almanacs to aid your search
- A large collection of Military records that cover the Boer war, WWI & WWII, Maori campaigns and more
- Rare and unrivalled specialist records – perfect for adding fine detail to your ancestors' lives
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Reinvent the way you read
Over 1000 titles are now available for loan at Our Library. All library members now have the option to download eBooks to their computer, eBook reader (excluding Kindle*) or tablet. Our Library eBooks are available in either EPUB format or PDF.
This new service is available in the library or at home and can be accessed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
This free service is available to all library members – all that is needed is a library card and PIN. |
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eTalking books from Bolinda Digital are downloadable to your computer and audio device. Listen on your iPod or MP3 player. Our eTalking book collection will offer you instant access to your favorite authors.
Fall in love, solve a murder, crack that code or travel the world – all while you run a marathon, do the housework, go fishing, travel to work or walk the dog. Or you could simply stay still and listen.
This free service is available to all library members – all that is needed is a library card and PIN. |
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yourtutor connects students with qualified tutors for live, one-to-one individual learning sessions via the internet.
Don't struggle anymore yourtutor is Australia's leading provider of online tutoring. This free, safe and interactive service is available for students in Years 4-12.
The tutors are experts in English, mathematics and science along with assignment research and study skills. They can review specific homework and assignment questions with students through the use of the latest online software, including controlled chat, an interactive whiteboard, file sharing tools and web browsing techniques. |
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Designed for high school students, Opposing Viewpoints offers a range of information from a range of sources to help students form their own opinions and form arguments. |
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yourtutor Lifelong Learning connects mature learners to an Australian expert at the click of a mouse and can help with:
• Resume, CV feedback
• Basic maths
• Writing better emails
• Online search and library skills
• Speeches, public speaking advice
• Grammar, punctuation, writing skills
• ESL writing feedback
yourtutor Lifelong Learning supports local mature students, migrants and first-generation Australians, job seekers, and households. |
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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 "How do I ?" learning topics. |
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Access the full text of major Australian and New Zealand newspapers. Includes regional and rural radio transcripts and news from current affairs television programs such as the ABC 7.30 Report. |
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NOW with Audio file in MP3 format!
This database contains reference material from 58 titles including the Gale Encyclopaedia of Science and the UXL Encyclopaedia of Science, over 200 full text magazines and academic journals, links to 500 websites and 8000 multimedia records. |
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This contains articles from 2,200 publications, 70% full text. Extra content includes links to selected health websites, Health assessment tools, Health News (current to the present week), comprehensive multimedia library on selected topics. |
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Only available in the Library
Discover your ancestors with the world's largest family history website. Start a family tree, browse electoral records, find out about your convict heritage, and more. |
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Only available in the Library
Search over 50 million records for Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands – millions of records that you won’t find available elsewhere online, including:
- Over 700,000 cemetery records from across Australia
- A vast collection of Australian and New Zealand electoral roll records
- Over 15 million government records including government gazettes, police gazettes and blue books
- Millions of religious records
- Over 10 million directories and almanacs to aid your search
- A large collection of Military records that cover the Boer war, WWI & WWII, Maori campaigns and more
- Rare and unrivalled specialist records – perfect for adding fine detail to your ancestors' lives
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Who Next...? A guide to children’s authors is an interactive tool to help parents, teachers and librarians in schools and public libraries to guide children who have already enjoyed stories by one writer to find other authors they will enjoy reading. Older children can also use the guide themselves. |
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The aim of this website is to encourage readers to try the works of new authors and to open up to them the wealth of good reading that is available in their local public library. |
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Information on authors and their works in all genres and disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. |
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Use this readers' advisory product to discover titles similar to those you already enjoy, or browse titles by topic, genre, setting, character, location and timeframe. |
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Only available in the library.
GBIP is a bibliographic database with over 12.5 million records for in-print, out-of-print and forthcoming books, talking books and videos. Great for finding out what other books your new favourite author has written, or searching for books on a particular subject. |
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Popular Magazines includes 1000 of the most searched magazines across our InfoTrac product line. All the titles were selected based on the actual publication searches performed by library patrons. |
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Designed for high school students, Opposing Viewpoints offers a range of information from a range of sources to help students form their own opinions and form arguments. |
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For almost 90 years, World Book has been committed to publishing encyclopedias and other reference products that meet the highest standards of editorial excellence while keeping pace with the technological developments that define the computer age. |
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This is the online version of the classic reference work. It contains the full text of the encyclopaedias, with the added advantage of images, videos, weblinks and more. A junior (for ages 5-10) and an intermediate (for ages 10-15) version is also built in. |
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The best education images all in one place. Access more than two million rights-cleared images from over 50 of the best collections in the world. |
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Full text information on thousands of famous people. You can search on birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender. |
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