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Australian Research Repositories Online to the World (ARROW)
"...project will identify and test software or solutions to support best practice institutional digital repositories comprising e-prints, electronic theses, e-research and electronic publishing."

National Library of Australia

• Electronic Information Resources Strategies and Action Plan 2001-2001
• Our Nation's Album: A History of the National Library of Australia (1901-2001)
  Sections include: Birth of a Library ; Bush Capital Pioneers ; A Great Public Library ; Our Heritage Revealed ; From the Bush to Beyond ; Housing the Collections.
• PADI - Preserving Access to Digital Information
  "PADI is a subject gateway to digital preservation resources"
  Sections include: Projects ; Organizations ; Bibliographies ; Discussion Lists ; Glossaries ; Journals ; Digital Libraries ; Issues ; Strategies...and more.
  National Library of Australia
• Pandora Archive - (dead link)
  Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources of Australia
  "...selected Australian online publications such as electronic journals, organisational sites, government publications and ephemera."
  National Library of Australia and Partners
• Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts (RAAM)
  "...is a guide to collections of personal papers and non-governmental organisational records held by Australian libraries and archives."

Australiana Collections
Descriptions of the various collections
National Library of Australia

Parliamentary Library
Includes a nice selection of Internet Resource Guides
Parliament of Australia

Australian Libraries Gateway
"...access Australia's cultural heritage via on-line exhibitions, events and image collections...create a mechanism for discovering which Australian libraries have good research collections in particular subjects."
- National Library of Australia

Library Catalogs: Australia - (dead link)
HYTELENT is maintained by Peter Scott

Directory of Archives in Australia
Australian Society of Archivists

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Australian Archives - (dead link)

Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts (RAAM) - (dead link)

Register of the National Estate
"The only heritage list that covers the entire country, the Register includes historic places, natural areas and places of importance."

State Library of South Australia - (dead link)

State Library of Victoria - (dead link)
Includes an impressive Multimedia Catalogue

University of Sydney Library - Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS)
"...provides access to a large number of networked and in-house full text databases, primarily but not exclusively, source texts within the humanities. In addition to these literary, philosophical and religious texts the service is engaged in a number of text and image creation projects."
Some databases restricted


Maintained by Mike Madin.
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