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Aboriginal Art
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Oct 31, 2012
This factsheet provides a guide to resources relating to Aboriginal art held in the State Library of South Australia
Tags: sa_memory
Aboriginal Australia
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Mar 14, 2013
A general State Library of South Australia guide to finding information relating to our indigenous peoples. Links are provided to more specific matters and particularly those addressed within a South Australian context
Tags: indigenous, south_australia
Aboriginal Australia - Contemporary issues and landmark events
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Oct 9, 2012
This State Library of South Australia guide brings together resources on some of the most significant issues and events relating to Indigenous Australians during the last fifty years
Tags: history, indigenous, land_rights, legislation, sa_memory, voting
Aboriginal Family History
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Oct 9, 2012
The State Library of South Australia holds a wide cross section of information about South Australia and its people, some of which relates to Aboriginal people, but specific information regarding families can sometimes require broad research.
Tags: deaths, family_history, finding_your_home, genealogy, indigenous, marriages, primary_sources, sa_memory, state_library_of_south_australia
Aboriginal missions in South Australia
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Apr 23, 2013
Guide to resources relating to the history of Aboriginal missions in South Australia including records created by these missions.
Tags: church records, family, family_history, indigenous, sa_memory, special_collections, state_library_of_south_australia
Acknowledging your State Library of South Australia sources
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Oct 9, 2012
This guide shows you how to acknowledge your State Library of South Australia sources, and gives further information about copyright, publishing and ordering copies from our collections.
Tags: copyright, referencing, state_library_of_south_australia
Almanacs and directories
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Apr 23, 2013
Post Office directories and almanacs are a valuable source of information for family historians.
Tags: almanacs, directories, family_history, sa_memory, state_library_of_south_australia
Architecture in South Australia
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Dec 11, 2012
This State Library of South Australia guide explores the architecture of SA, characterised by six chronological styles, starting with Old Colonial to 1840, Victorian to 1890, Federation to 1915, Interwar, Postwar and the Late Twentieth Century from 1960
Tags: adelaide, finding_your_home, history, sa_memory, south_australia
Archival Collections
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Dec 9, 2012
This State Library of South Australia guide to archival collections includes information on archival formats, making donations, and accessing archival material.
Tags: adelaide, antiquarian, artworks, audiovisual, bequest, collections, donate, film, library_services, somerville, south_australia, special_collections, state_library_of_south_australia
Audiovisual collections
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Oct 9, 2012
The State Library of South Australia's audiovisual collection was established in the 1970s. It now includes all analogue and digital formats.
Tags: analogue, audio, audio_visual, audiovisual, collections, digital, film, music, oral_history, pandora, sa_memory, special_collections, state_library_of_south_australia, video, websites
Australian convict records
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Oct 9, 2012
Between 1788 and 1868 about 160 000 British convicts were sent to Australia. This State Library of South Australia guide will assist you to locate worldwide resources for researching your convict ancestors.
Tags: colonies, convicts, family_history, genealogy, penal, settlements, south_australia, transportation
Barbara Hanrahan
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Oct 9, 2012
Adelaide artist and writer Barbara Hanrahan's prints and books, explored the lives of the everyday, especially focusing on women. Find out what the State Library of South Australia holds in it's collection about this South Australian artist.
Tags: adelaide, artists, collections, etchings, sa_memory, silkscreens, south_australians, special_collections, state_library_of_south_australia
Barbara Hardy
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Oct 9, 2012
Dr Barbara Hardy AO has led an exemplary public life of advocacy and science devoted to the environment. Her environmental activism has focussed on communicating ideas, lobbying decision makers, raising funds and educating the community.
Tags: adelaide, barbara_hardy, conservation, conservationists, environment, environmentalists, hardy, sa_memory, science, south_australia, state_library_of_south_australia
Births, deaths and marriages
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated May 19, 2013
This State Library of South Australia guide includes information on cemeteries, church records, burials and probate (wills). Information for other states is also included.
Tags: births, burial, cemetery, certificates, deaths, district_registers, family, genealogy, history, marriages, probate, sa_memory, state_library_of_south_australia, weddings, wills
Business information
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Dec 18, 2012
This LibGuide explains how to access Australian and overseas company information, advice about how to search for patents, and links to resources about mines and mineral resources in South Australia.
Caring for your collections
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Dec 9, 2012
This guide will help you look after your own books and papers. It will also explain how to get your books valued.
Tags: donating, donations, preservation, preserving, primary_sources, valuation
Catherine Helen Spence
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Oct 9, 2012
A guide to Catherine Helen Spence featuring writings about her and a chronological bibliography of her works.
Tags: journalists, sa_memory, south_australians, state_library_of_south_australia, suffrage, women
Census and muster records
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Apr 1, 2013
A guide to the State Library of South Australia census and muster records for SA, Australia and the UK
Tags: census, family history, genealogy, muster
Child welfare in South Australia
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated May 14, 2013
How to find information about adoption, fostering and children in institutional care, online and at the State Library of South Australia.
Tags: buildings, children, family, genealogy, health, legislation, sa_memory, south_australia
Church records
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Feb 17, 2013
The State Library holds a number of Church records which may be useful to family historians
Tags: births, cemetery, church records, deaths, family_history, genealogy, marriages, sa_memory, south_australia, state_library_of_south_australia
Darkness in the City of Light
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated May 12, 2013
Walk through what was once the underbelly of the City of Churches. Full of dubious characters, 'lurk merchants' and others just down on their luck.
Tags: adelaide, android, central markets, crime, dowie, economic_depressions, emancipation, gambling, great war, iphone, murder, premiers, prostitution, pubs, sa_memory, south_australia, state_library_of_south_australia, suffrage, temperance, walking_tours
Donating material to the library
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated May 12, 2013
This LibGuide explains how to prepare your material for donation and what kinds of material the library accepts.
Tags: archives, bequest, donations, ephemera, preservation, preserving
Douglas Mawson
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Oct 9, 2012
Sir Douglas Mawson made three expeditions to Antarctica including the AAE 1911-14 and BANZARE 1929-31. Explore these through the collections of the State Library of South Australia.
Tags: antarctic, antarctica;, expeditions;, explorers;, science;, scientists
eBooks
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Nov 25, 2012
Searching, accessing and using the State Libraries eBook collections
Electoral Rolls
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Feb 27, 2013
Australian Electoral Rolls (Commonwealth) all States and Territories
Tags: family_history, state_library_of_south_australia, voting
Family history frequently asked questions
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Feb 12, 2013
Designed by the State Library of South Australia for use in the Family History area to answer only the most frequently asked family history questions (FAQ). For further assistance please see our family history LibGuides on specific topics.
Tags: arrivals, births, burial, cemetery, certificates, collections, convicts, deaths, family_history, genealogy, history, immigration, marriages, migrant, migration, passenger, research, sa_memory, south_australia, voting, weddings
Family History Starter Guide
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated May 12, 2013
For those new to family history and the State Library of South Australia collection, or for those needing a few tips and tricks
Tags: arrivals, births, burial, cemetery, certificates, convicts, deaths, departures, family_history, genealogy, immigration, library, marriages, migrant, migration, mortlock, passenger, penal, south_australia, state_library_of_south_australia, weddings
For students and teachers
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Feb 6, 2013
A guide highlighting collections, resources and services available at the State Library of South Australia to assist students and teachers.
Tags: collections, exams, kits, library_tours, orientation, past_exams, primary_sources, research, sace, sace_research_project, secondary_sources, state_library_of_south_australia, teachers'_kits, tours
Government and country information
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Dec 5, 2012
Australian state and federal governments and parliamentary publications; UN and country economic and political information.
Health and medical resources
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Dec 18, 2012
A guide to resources on health and medical topics in the State Library
Tags: health, medical, medicine, state_library_of_south_australia
History of the State Library of South Australia
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Feb 15, 2013
Details the Library's interesting history from 1834, its buildings, legislation, Board membership, staff and exhibitions.
Tags: adelaide, artworks, buildings, catherine helen spence, exhibitions, history, institute_building, lending, libraries board, memorials, mortlock, preservation, room_names, sa_memory, south_australia, state_library_of_south_australia, volunteers
Hospitals, nursing homes and public health in South Australia
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Oct 9, 2012
Sources for historical information about South Australian health services. Includes information about where to find hospital records.
Tags: buildings, family_history, health, history, medical, sa_memory, south_australia
Immigration to South Australia
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated May 19, 2013
This State Library of South Australia guide has information on passenger lists, newspaper indexes and immigration schemes. It includes some resources about immigration to other states.
Tags: aliens, arrivals, barwell, citizenship, departures, family_history, genealogy, migrant, migration, naturalisation, naturalization, passenger, shipping, south_australia
John McDouall Stuart
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Nov 30, 2012
Explore the resources in the collections of the State Library of South Australia about South Australia's most famous explorer, who successfully crossed the continent from south to north, through the centre, and returned alive.
Tags: exploration, explorers, south_australia, south_australians
Legal information
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Oct 9, 2012
A guide to sources of legal information in the State Library of South Australia
Tags: law, legal, state_library_of_south_australia
Lost Adelaide
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated May 12, 2013
Travel through history at your own pace. Discover Adelaide's lost buildings using your own smartphone. This self-guided walking tour uses locative technology to provide snapshots of the city.
Lost Adelaide: West End
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated May 24, 2013
Looks at some of the sites in Adelaide's West End and traces the history of the buildings on those sites and their uses.
Tags: adelaide, buildings, library_tour, library_tours, lost_adelaide, research, south_australians, state_library_of_south_australia
Mary MacKillop (Saint Mary of the Cross)
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Apr 9, 2013
This LibGuide provides references to articles in newspapers and periodicals and other material available within the State Library with reference to key external resources.
Tags: mary_mackillop, penola, saint
Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin in South Australian waters
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Oct 9, 2012
In 1802 two expeditions of discovery were off the coast of southern Australia, both charged with charting the 'unknown coast'. They famously met off the coast at what Flinders would name Encounter Bay.
Tags: discovery;, exploration;, explorers;
Max Fatchen
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Oct 15, 2012
A guide to the life and works of Max Fatchen.
Military Records
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated May 15, 2013
This State Library of South Australia guide to military related information includes medals, militia and Australian involvement in conflicts. The emphasis is on South Australian records.
Tags: adelaide, anzacs, boer war, crimean war, deaths, vietnam war., world war
Mortlock
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Oct 9, 2012
The story behind the man and woman behind the Mortlock bequest
Tags: adelaide, benefactors, bequest, library, mortlock, sa_memory, south_australia, state_library_of_south_australia
Multicultural heritage
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Oct 9, 2012
This guide shows the wealth of information available about Chinese, Scottish and German people in early South Australian history.
Tags: adelaide, china, chinese, german, germans, germany, immigration, migrant, migration, multicultural, scotland, scottish, scotts, south_australia
Murray Bridge: from retro to reality
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Nov 9, 2012
In 2010 Murray Bridge is South Australia's Regional Centre for Culture (RCC). To celebrate this focus on the town, the State Library presents a unique view of its photographs using Flickr and Google Maps.
Tags: flickr, google_maps, history, regional_centre_for_culture, sa_memory, south_australia
Rare books and special collections
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated May 21, 2013
The State Library has a significant collection of rare books and manuscripts from all over the world. They have been donated or purchased over many years, often with the assistance of the Friends of the State Library of South Australia.
Tags: adelaide, antiquarian, benefactors, book_valuation, childrens_literature, ephemera, library, rare_books, sa_memory, south_australia, special_collections, state_library_of_south_australia, unitarian_church, valuation, wine
Ships and maritime history
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Mar 7, 2013
The State Library has one of the best shipping and maritime history collections in Australia. It includes books, periodicals, newspapers, shipping registers and several substantial pictorial collections.
Sir George Grey
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Oct 9, 2012
Information about the life of former South Australian Governor George Grey.
South Australian History
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Mar 19, 2013
This guide covers a range of topics relating to the history of South Australia, including the South Australian Company, resources on researching Aboriginal history in South Australia and the South Australian experience of religion and education.
Tags: catherine helen spence, donald_dunstan, economic_depressions, education, history, indigenous, mary lee, mary_mackillop, religion, sa_memory, south_australia, south_australians, women
South Australian Women
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Oct 9, 2012
Thanks to the struggle of the state's women, South Australia was one of the first places in the world to grant the vote to women. This guide covers a wide range of women's history in SA, from suffrage to prostitution and the women who changed the state.
Tags: artists, barbara hanahan, catherine helen spence, emancipation, mary lee, prostitution, suffrage
United Kingdom and Ireland Family History
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated Apr 2, 2013
This guide includes information to trace your English, Scottish, Welsh and Cornish family history.
Tags: census, cornwall, england, family history, genealogy, great britain, ireland, northern ireland, republic of ireland, scotland, uk, united kingdom, wales
Walking tours for mobile devices
by State Library of South Australia - Last Updated May 12, 2013
Located on Adelaide's cultural boulevard, North Terrace, the State Library of South Australia offers self-guided walking tours highlighting historical aspects of the city, allowing you to travel through time at your own pace.
Tags: adelaide, darkness_in_the_city_of_light, dowie, history, iphone, library_tour, library_tours, lost_adelaide, orientation, sa_memory, self_guided, south_australians, state_library_of_south_australia, trail, walking_tours, west_end

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