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JournalTOC’s

JournalTOCs is for anyone who’s looking for the latest papers published in the scholarly literature in a single interface. The website claims to be the biggest searchable collection of scholarly journal Tables of Contents (TOCs). It contains article metadata of TOCs for over 18,609 journals directly collected from over 1056 publishers, including some of the bigger names. Its international in focus and it is also free to browse. Check out the website here.

World Poetry Day – 21st of March

The UN has set aside the 21st of March as World Poetry Day.

 This is a day to reflect on the importance of poetry and poets in our world.

“Poets convey a timeless message. They are often key witnesses to history’s great political and social changes. Their writings inspire us to build lasting peace in our minds, to rethink relations between man and nature and to establish humanism founded on the uniqueness and diversity of people’s.”  Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, message for World Poetry Day, 21 March 2011

Within the Academy Library you will find an extensive poetry collection  including international and many Australian poets that you might like to look at. These are located in the PR sections of the library.

 We also have access to many online resources and poetry journals, such as   ‘Southerly’, ‘ Meanjin’  ‘Poetry’, ‘Poetrybay’ and ‘Poets and Writers’

A great website to check out is the ‘Australian Poetry library‘. It has many poems and biographies of poets.

War and Australia resources

You can now access a large selection of resources that have been made available through the NSW State Records that “highlight New South Wales involvement in a number of military conflicts during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.” (NSW state records website)

These include the Sudan, Boer War and  World War 1 and 2. You can search Nominal Rolls, view images and more.

Well worth a look.

 

We also have some books that include nominal rolls available here at the Academy Library including:

‘The Royal Australian Naval Brigade 1914-1920 : (a brief history and nominal roll)‘  compiled by P.I. Blackwell

‘Roll of honour 1840 to 1902 : defenders of the Empire resident in New Zealand’  compiled by the Earl of Ranfurly

Image: www.records.nsw.gov.au/state-archives

Dr Suess’ Birthday – 2nd of March

“One fish,two fish,red fish,blue fish……I do not like green eggs and ham!I do not like them Sam I am!……From there to here, from here to there,funny things are everywhere…….Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

Born on the 2nd of March in 1904 Dr Suess became a much loved and well renowned children’s author and illustrator publishing over 60 books with such titles as ‘The Lorax’, ‘Green Eggs and Ham’, and of course the famous ‘Cat In The Hat’, just to name a few.

Here at the Academy Library we have a Dr Suess biography, ‘Dr. Seuss ‘ by Ruth K. MacDonald in our collection you might like to have a look at.

You might also like to look at other books within our collection on children’s literature. Here are just a few:

‘Australian children’s literature : an exploration of genre and theme’ by John Foster, Ern Finnis and Maureen Nimon

‘Give them wings : the experience of children’s literature’  edited by Maurice Saxby and Gordon Winch

‘Images of Australia : a history of Australian children’s literature 1941-1970′ by Maurice Saxby.

‘American children’s literature and the construction of childhood’  by Gail Schmunk Murray

You might also like to check out the Dr Suess website ‘Suessville’ . Just for a bit of fun!

Images: The Cat In The Hat, The Lorax;Dr Suess

Dreamboats and Workboats -Halvorsen Story

For those interested in Maritime history you will know that Halvorsen boats are a big part of Sydney’s boating culture and have played a big role in Australia’s boating history.

The National Maritime Museum has a wonderful online database of Halvorsen boats that includes plans and images of the Halvorsen boats.

We have a great collection of boating books related to the subject here at the Academy Library you might be interested in;

‘A practical course in wooden boat and ship building ‘    by Richard M. Van Gaasbeek

‘Splinter fleet : the wooden subchasers of World War II’ by Theodore R. Treadwell

‘The evolution of the wooden ship ‘ by Basil Greenhill ; illustrations by Sam Manning

‘The history of the ship : the comprehensive story of seafaring from the earliest times to the present day’  by Richard Woodman

‘Illustrated marine encyclopedia’  by H. Paasch ; introduction by David R. MacGregor

‘Principles of yacht design’  by Lars Larsson & Rolf E. Eliasson.

‘Sydney Harbour of yesteryear : the glass plate photography of William James Hall’   by Jeff Toghill

‘Yachting in Australia : yesterday today tomorrow’  by Lou d’Alpuget ; research assistant: Tony Mooney

Image: halvorsenclub.com.au website