Australians' Experience of War: Resource Guide

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This guide will point you in the right direction in your search for information. There are a small number of resources that are reference resources and are generally "not for loan". This is to ensure that they are always available for class use. Use the reference resources listed here to gain an understanding of what was happening in Australia during the war years. Reference Collection 994 AUS Australia though time: 126 years of Australian history. 1994. 2nd ed. Random House. Sydney. 994.003 AUS The Australian encyclopedia. 1988. 5th ed. Australian Geographic Society. Terrys Hill NSW. 994 AUS Australians. 1987. Fairfax Syme & Weldon. Broadway. NSW. 909.82 CHR Ross, John, ed. 1999, Chronicle of the 20th century, Ringwood, Vic.:Viking Enquiry Desk .OURS: Melbourne High School Quarterly magazine Vol. 8. 1914 No.4 December Vol. 9. 1915 No. 2 July, No. 3 Sept. No. 4 December Vol.10 1916 No. 1 May, No.2 Sept, No. 3 December Vol.11 1917 No. 1 May, No.2 Sept. Non Fiction Collection Use the Library Catalogue to find subject headings that will lead you to useful information. Remember you are looking for material that gives you an accurate picture of the Australian world at that time as well as the war itself. Search by Subject Use Power Search and choose the Browsing link on the right. A new screen will appear and you can then choose a Subject Specific search. This will give you a list of all the subdivisions of World War, 1914 - 1918 or World War, 1939 -1945, depending on which term you enter. Eg. World War. The search may be narrowed by searching the subject divisions or by adding more subject words. Eg. World War, 1914 – 1918 or World War, 1939 – 1945 These subjects can be divided geographically by country eg. Australia, France, Great Britain. Eg. World War, 1914 – 1918 - Australia The subject can be further divided. Words such as Campaigns, Battles, Sources, Pictorial works, Women, Personal accounts, etc. can be added. Eg. World War, 1914-1918 – Australia – Personal Accounts Have a look at the list of subject headings on the OPAC to find other useful ones. The subject Australia – History Can be divided chronologically eg. 1901-1918 or 20th century The subject Victoria – History Can also be divided chronologically. Basic Search :A keyword search will search for specific terms such as proper names or key terms: Eg. Propaganda, Great War or First World War. The search can be narrowed by entering more words, such as for example Australia or Women. Some other examples of possible general words are: Australian army, Gallipoli, ANZACs, Conscription, home front. Power search enables you to restrict the search to specific item types e.g. videorecording or dvd Eg. war videorecording and war dvd Non-Fiction 994.00922 AUS, Australian dictionary of biography, 1966. Carlton, Vic. : MUP. 994.04 BAS, The Home front, 1914-1918. 1983. Melbourne : Oxford. 994.04 LEW Lewis, Robert and Tim Gurry. 2001. Homefronts at war: the Australian experience of war in World War 1, World War 2, and the Vietnam war, Apsley, Qld.: ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee of Queensland. 940.3161 YOU McKinlay, Brian, ed. 1990. Young ANZACS : the contribution of Victorian schools to the Gallipoli campaign 1915, Melbourne, Vic.: Ministry of Education 940.488 WHA Stanley, Peter, comp. 1983. What did you do in the war daddy? : a visual history of propaganda posters. Melbourne: Oxford University Press 940.40994 ANZ Pelvin, Richard, comp. 2004. Anzac: an illustrated history 1914 – 1918. South Yarra, Vic.: Hardie Grant 994.041 GIL Gilbert, P.F., 1976 Australia at war 1914 - 1918, Milton, Qld.: Jacaranda. 994.04 GAR Gard, Stephen, 2000. Australia: a new nation, South Yarra, Vic.: Macmillan. 994.04 TUR Turner, L.C.F. 1971 The Great War, Melbourne, Vic.: Cheshire. 940.426 CAR Carlyon, Patrick 2003 The Gallipoli story, Camberwell, Vic.: Penguin 994.042 HOM Young, James. 2004. News news news: momentous events and daily life as reported in the Australian press, Newtown, NSW: Woollahra. 940.041 SCA Scates, Bruce and Raelene Frances. 1997. Women and the Great War, Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. 940.426 MAR HIL Hill, Anthony. 2001. Soldier boy : the true story of Jim Martin the youngest ANZAC, Ringwood, Vic.: Penguin. Videos     Videos 940.394 WOR World War One: the Australian home front   Electronic resources 994 AUS Australia Through Time: 126 Years of Australian History.[CD-Rom] 1995. ABC/Random. 994 AUS History of Australia. [CD-Rom] 1997. Webster. 940.53 WOR World War II archives on CD Rom. Oxford Cybernetics. 1993 940 5394 VOI Voices from a war. [CD-Rom] 1997. Stories from the Australians at War film archive Sydney, Hodder, 2006. Websites Australian War Memorial : Australians at War Online exhibitions, educational materials for students, photographs and artworks Statistics of Australia's involvement in Wars This month in Australia's Military History 1918 Australians in France Picture Australia Searchable database of thousands of images Imagining Australia 1914–1918 Museum Victoria's online exhibition of Australian Life during the war years. Diaries, text & audio poems & animations Trenches on the web World War one. Includes menu for searching The Trenches on the Web photographs site is one of the most comprehensive concerning World War One. This section includes details and photographs of the Anzacs at war. . Australia at War : a companion site for the TV series Includes animated documentaries, stories & personal histories Gallipoli and the Anzacs | Australians in war | World War 1 A major award-winning educational site containing text, documents, graphics, timelines, video and audio about Australians in the 1915 World War 1 Anzac ... Despatches from Gallipoli: censorship Military Stories and Anecdotes from World War 1 Stolen Years: Australian Prisoners of War The Australian Homefront During World War 1 The First World War this site has many useful sections: Memoirs and Diaries War Timeline Weapons of war World War 1 1914 -1916 Australia’s war 1939-1945 World War II: 1939-1945 John Curtin’s legacy: leading Australia from war to peace Post-war reconstruction and democratic rights referendum, 1944 feature article Australian women in war Australian Women in wartime Australian Women in World War I (1914-1918) experiences of Australian women in World War I. Australian women in world war Ii (1939 -1945) experiences of Australian women in World War II From Wireless to Web Multimedia Resources Australian screen Includes clips from documentaries, newsreels, etc. Use the Tag Cloud to search all categories. Australians at Work: Film Australia Digital Learning Clickview database of films on the school network has many clips on both world wars and related homefront topics. You can select & save film clips to insert into presentations Vincent Voice Library   collection of over 40,000 hours of spoken word recordings, dating back to 1888. US database ABC - A place to thinkA moving history of Australia, including snapshots of 60 years from Film Australia. Starting from Australia's graphic history through the 1940's to the new millennium ABC Lifelong Learning World War II site  Screen Australia Digital Learning   downloadable video clips