Information for students
The State Library of Queensland provides material that will help students from upper primary to undergraduate level.
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Finding what you want
Friendly reference assistance is available at the Information Desk on Level 2 of the South Bank building.
State Library South Bank collections catalogue
Search the State Library South Bank collections catalogue to find books, magazines, maps, music, videos and newspapers, and then request them using your e-services card.
- The Children’s Literature Research Collection contains high quality examples of books for children and young people with an emphasis on award winning titles.
- The John Oxley Library, part of the State Library's Heritage Collections, holds an important collection of juvenile literature published by Queensland authors and a collection of historic Queensland school readers. These include works by Kate Greenaway and Randolph Caldecott.
Online resources
- Find articles for your assignments in our online databases. You can access the databases available Queensland wide, The Times Digital Archive and Art Full Text from your home computer by using your e-services card.
- Find good quality homework help websites selected by our staff.
- Use NetLinks to find information on your topic easily. This is an annotated subject list of high quality websites selected by our library staff.
- Access digitised material from the following State Library collections:
Referencing your assignments
Internet resource evaluation [new window http://www.library.uq.edu.au/internet/inteval.html#evaluating] from the University of Queensland will help you create a bibliography.
More information
If you have an enquiry, you can contact us in any of the following ways:
For general enquiries:
- Ask at your local Queensland public library
- Other libraries [new window http://www.nla.gov.au/libraries]
Last updated: 6th February 2008
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