3 August 2012

Ngarnga Yumarrala

Online resources for Indigenous studies

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Session outline

• Introduction to the SLV collections

• ergo website

• Resources on the SLV catalogue

• Research guides

• Finding articles in newspapers and journals

• Activity: analysing images and documents

• Using texts

• Sharing resources with Diigo

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Early days

• Established by Redmond Barry and known as the Melbourne Public Library when it opened in 1856

• The shelves contained 846 volumes in February 1856 (about 5 million total items today)

• Hoped to be 'the people’s university’ – “a place where the world’s knowledge and information would be freely available to all citizens of the growing colony of Victoria, regardless of their social status or financial resources”

• Not all members of the Victorian community were equally represented

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Resources for students

For the study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Culture there are a number of resources at the SLV suitable for both teachers and students.

We would recommend directing students to information on the ergo website ergo.slv.vic.gov.au

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ergo website

Relevant areas in the ‘Explore history’ section:

- Colonial Melbourne- Convicts: Buckley and the Aborigines- Pioneers: Batman’s treaty (‘also on ergo’ leads to Land & Exploration)

- Land & Exploration- Land management: Tarnishing the Crown- Land management: Indigenous land use- Exploration: Burke, Wills & Aboriginal guides

- Rebels & Outlaws- Law enforcement: Massacre of the Kurnai- Law enforcement: Aboriginal trackers- Law enforcement: The Native Police

- Golden Victoria- Life on the fields: Aborigines and the gold rush

- Fight for rights- Indigenous rights: (all in this section)

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Resources on the SLV catalogue

Images in ergo all have links to the catalogue record for each item,

eg. Tommy McRae’s book of sketches

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Resources on the SLV catalogue

The record will contain all bibliographic details, background/description of the item, and the subjects that it has been catalogued in.

Subjects are hyperlinked to searches for other items in that subject set,

eg. Aboriginal Australians – Victoria

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Resources on the SLV catalogue

Once you have searched for a subject, we recommend that you restrict your search to online resources so you can use them remotely.

You can do this from at the top of the search results, or under the ‘Show only’ heading in the left column

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Resources on the SLV catalogue

You can view the items by clicking on the ‘View online’ link.

Some are available to download in high-res tiff format

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Resources on the SLV catalogue

Doing a catalogue search

Different tabs are to search for different item types

The search bar is like a search engine on the web. Just type in what you’re looking for and click ‘Search’

http://search.slv.vic.gov.au

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Research guides

SLV research guides

http://guides.slv.vic.gov.au/

Browse by subject Aboriginal people

•Aboriginal people and family history  •Aboriginal people and the law

•Adoption and Forgotten Australians

•Early Australian census records •Finding the meaning of an Aboriginal word

•Koorie Victoria and State Library of Victoria collections

 

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Resources for teachers

The Library also subscribes to information databases

http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/explore/research-tools/access-eresources-home

Includes multi-subject databases (EBSCO, Informit Complete, General OneFile, JSTOR etc)

Also has subject specific resources for Aboriginal and Torres StraitIslander people

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Finding articles in newspapers and journals

From the Research tools page you can search the Victoria Government Gazette

http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/

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Resources for teachers and students

You can also look at contemporary newspapers remotely, but you will need to be logged in with your surname and Library card barcode – to register go to

http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/services/join-library

Newspaper databases can be found at:

http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/explore/research-tools/access-eresources-home/newspapers

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Finding articles in newspapers and journals

To view historic newspapers, go to the National Library of Australia website to use Trove:

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper

You can search by publication or keyword.

Text is electronicallytranslated, so can be a little inaccurate, but articles can be printed and/or saved from the site

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Activity: analysis of images and documents

For this activity we will use templates from the ‘For teachers’ section of the ergo website

http://ergo.slv.vic.gov.au/search/for-teachers

Using the templates for single Image study and document study, work in pairs or groups of three to analyse the sources provided (from the ergo website, SLV manuscripts collection or Trove).

Record your findings on the template

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Using texts

Using texts can be a great way to explore cross-curriculum priorities and is a good way to integrate studies with English.

• Great reading list for Indigenous studies compiled by Susan La Marca (Genazzano FCJ College)

•Resources on Inside A Dog to assist with text studies and responses eg.

- Literature Circles- Multimedia resources- Video responses- Visual responses

http://susanlamarca.edublogs.org/australian-curriculum/

http://www.insideadog.com.au/teachers

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Sharing resources with Diigo

We have created a Diigo account to share resources that we have shown you today:

http://www.diigo.com/list/slvlearn/aboriginal_torres_strait_islander_resources

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Contact details

Bethany Leong,Education Programs Coordinator

Email: bleong@slv.vic.gov.auPhone: (03) 8664 7268

Cameron Hocking,Learning Programs Officer

Email: chocking@slv.vic.gov.auPhone: (03) 8664 7558

There is also an edited version of this presentation at http://www.slideshare.net/slveducation