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National Dinosaur Museum (more info)
National Dinosaur Museum shop online including a variety of educational (and fun) products with a dinosaur/prehistory theme which would make ideal resources for primary classrooms.
National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) (more info)
The National Film and Sound Archive (previously ScreenSound Australia) is Australia's audiovisual archive, collecting, preserving and sharing the nation's moving image and recorded sound heritage. The website includes information about what's on, ser...
National Library of Australia (NLA) (more info)
The National Library of Australia collection consists of documentary resources of national significance relating to Australia and the Australian people, as well as significant non-Australian library materials, preserved and made accessible either thr...
National Library of Australia's Federation Gateway (more info)
The National Library of Australia's Federation Gateway has been created to assist in locating a wide variety of materials like books, web sites, pictures and manuscripts relating to the Federation of Australia, on subjects including people, politics ...
National Treasures from Australia's Great Libraries (more info)
This online exhibition brings our national memory to life, drawing together for the first time over 170 priceless treasures from the collections of Australia's national, state and territory libraries.
In April 2001 Public Record Office Victoria began a program to digitise a miscellaneous collection of documents known as the Kelly Historical Collection. Eighty of these digitised documents have been selected and transcribed for inclusion on this web...
Noel Butlin Archives Centre (NBAC) (more info)
The Noel Butlin Archives Centre is a nationally significant collection of primary source material relating to business and labour. The NBAC holds archives of industrial organisations, businesses, professional associations, industry bodies and the lab...
Northern Territory Library (more info)
The Library provides all Territorians with access to information, literature and their documentary heritage. The Northern Territory Library at Parliament House is the major public reference and research library for the Northern Territory. The Library...
Northern Territory Library - Territory Images (more info)
The Territory Images collection is significant for its extensive holdings of photographs depicting life and times in the earlier periods of Northern Territory history. Through the Territory Images website a small selection of these photographs are ac...
Northern Territory Library Cyclone Tracy Website (more info)
Cyclone Tracy devastated Darwin, Australia on the night of Christmas Eve 1974. The website has three main areas: Cyclone Tracy - covers the history of Darwin, Meteorological information - includes general information about cyclones and Oral histories...
NSW Toy & Railway Museum (more info)
A visit to Leuralla, the historic home, allows you to explore one of the oldest Blue Mountains' heritage listed homes set within 12 acres of temperate gardens. The historic home was completed just prior to World War I and is located in Leura, the ga...
PARADISEC offers a facility for digital conservation and access for endangered materials from the Pacific region, defined broadly to include Oceania and East and Southeast Asia. They are examining feasible models to ensure that the archive can provid...
Penrith City Council Library (more info)
Penrith Library offers a wide range of information through its collections of books, magazines, audio and video tapes, CD's and electronic services. The website includes opening hours, what's on, A-Z of library services and library catalogue search.
The PictureAustralia service has been provided for use by all Australians, to discover our heritage as documented in pictures. Through a single access point it is possible to search the distributed image collections of many significant cultural insti...
Pictures Catalogue (more info)
This online catalogue contains descriptions of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and three-dimensional objects held in the Pictures Collection of the National Library of Australia. The emphasis is on Australian material, with some material rel...
Polish Historical Institute in Australia (more info)
The Polish Historical Institute in Australia is aiming to collect, preserve and make available to the public archival materials pertaining to Polish immigration to Australia and the settlement of Poles in Australia since 1940.
Prahan Mechanics' Institute Library (more info)
The Prahran Mechanics' Institute is a community owned library which was established in 1864. The Institute specialises in the history of Victoria. It has over 10,000 books for loan and offers a professional information service to members.
Public Libraries Automated Information Network (PLAIN) of South Australia (more info)
PLAIN Central Services is a cost effective centrally automated online acquisitions, cataloguing and processing service supporting all public libraries in South Australia. PLAIN is a part of the State Library of South Australia. On the PLAIN website y...
Public Record Office of Victoria (PRO) (more info)
The Public Record Office takes custody of records no longer required for current administrative purposes and provides access to records released for public inspection. On the website you can find information on services offered to the public, the gov...
Queensland State Archives (more info)
The Archives regulate the preservation and disposal of public records,identify and manage public records of enduring value in all media, and make public records available for use by present and future generations. Through the website you can read the...
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