National Library of Australia


Baptist Theological College of Victoria ; Whitley College

Whitley College Library


Summary subject collecting information (definitions of the ALG collecting levels are available for reference):


Agriculture

    Comments: Bush fire research

Anthropology

    Comments: Australian Aboriginal People http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/aborigines/default.htm

Art and architecture

    Comments: Art http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/arts/art/default.htm

    Comments: Yves Coffin collection of photographs of Bali, Cham, Javanese, Khmer and Thai art, architecture and sculpture. Javanese series = 1,000 photographic prints from most of the temple sites such as Borobadur, Sari, Sewu, Pringapus, Mendut, Kidul, Lara Djonggrong et al. and items from the collection of the National Museum in Djakarta. Cham series = 300 photographs taken from the Municipal Museum, Danang and the National Museum, Saigon. Photographs of sculpture from South Asia on microfiche.

    Comments: The general monograph and serial collection is minimal, with some notable historical monographs and runs of serials. However collections relating to Australia are at research level. The National Library's Pictorial Collection includes an extensive collection of photographs covering events and aspects of life in Australia, especially those of national importance.

    Comments: The Library's Film and Video Lending Collection is managed by the Cinemedia organisation in Melbourne.

    Comments: Museology has been collected to support, in the first instance, the Library's own program of preservation and exhibition activities.

Biological sciences

    Comments: Biology http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/science/biology/default.htm

    Comments: Richard Booth formed collection of 231 items on evolution provides a little historical depth.

    Comments: Strengths include publications of the Linnean Society of London, and microfilm copies of manuscripts held by the Society, which relate to Australia. Relevant material from the British Museum (Natural History) is held as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project and commercially published microfilm sets. Botanists such as Sir Joseph Banks and Robert Brown, and artists such as Ferdinand Bauer, Susan Fereday, Ellis Rowan and Adam Forster are also represented.

    Comments: Mathews Ornithological Collection from noted ornithologist Gregory Macalister Mathews (1876-1949), comprises books, pamphlets, reprints, manuscripts & pictorial material is regarded as the most comprehensive collection relating to the study of Australian birds to be assembled. Include watercolours by the Cayleys, John Gould, J.W. Lewin & Lilian Medland; manuscripts include those of Mathews himself, Gould & Sylvester Diggles. Also hold National Photographic Index of Australian Birds.

    Comments: collection of 6,000 volumes of periodicals and 600 monographic works on entomology from the library of Elwood C. Zimmerman, an authority on weevils and Pacific insects, provides some historic depth to the collection. Part of this collection is on long term loan to CSIRO Black Mountain.

Chemistry

    Comments: Chemistry http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/science/chemistry/default.htm

Computer science

    Comments: Computers/ Information Technology http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/te/it/default.htm

Economics and business

    Comments: Business http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/te/business/default.htm Economics http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/sose/economics/default.htm

    Comments: There are some notable strengths in the microform collections.

    Comments: Strong in reference and directory information.

    Comments: Information on the economic situation in individual countries and regions has been collected to research level in the past. Works on banks and banking were collected in similar depth. Strengths in this subject also come from ongoing deposit arrangements with the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation and other intergovernmental organisations, along with government publications dealing with economic subjects from Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and the United States of America.

    Comments: The collection consists mainly of material from Great Britain and the United States of America, with an emphasis on the general principles governing the subject.

Education

    Comments: Education and teaching http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/teaching/default.htm

Technology

    Comments: Technology and Enterprise http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/te/default.htm

    Comments: Notable historical strengths relating to aviation include the Ernest Crome collection on Australian aviation and Austin E. Byrne collection of material relating to the Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm crossing of the Pacific in the Fokker Southern Cross flight in 1928 from California to Australia.

    Comments: http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/te/hospit/foodtech.htm

Geography and earth sciences

    Comments: Geography http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/sose/geography/default.htm

    Comments: Basic collection of dictionaries, encyclopaedias, comprehensive global overviews & a few key serial titles covering various disciplines. Apart from the significant range & quantity of material acquired through deposit & exchange arrangements with various government instrumentalities & learned bodies, such as geological surveys, meteorological offices and oceanographic institutes, which approaches a higher level, the existing collection is predominantly at the basic or minimal level.

    Comments: Maps, atlases, aerial & remote sensing images, globes & electronic spatial data. Gazetteers & literature related to the science & art of map production. Significant historical collection of Australian maps & modern topographic mapping. Extensive overseas collection - current concentration on regions nearest to Australia. Standard topographic, aeronautical & hydrographic chart series are high priority. Wide range of thematic mapping & rare maps re European discovery & exploration of Australia.

History and biography

    Comments: History http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/sose/history/default.htm

    Comments: Biography http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/cross/biography.htm Australian Biography http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/cross/austbiog.htm Australian Aboriginal People Biography http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/aborigines/biography.htm

    Comments: History of France, with less emphasis on Germany & Italy. Concentration on 1789 French Revolution - main periodicals held (original or microcopy); more than 12,000 pamphlets supplemented by microcard copies of pamphlets in the Talleyrand, Melvin & other American collections; statutes in several cumulations running through Napoleonic period. Gosse collection includes Napoleon's exile in St Helena; 44 newspapers published at the time. 1848 Revolution & 1870-71 crisis well represented.

    Comments: Extensive collecting since 1950s, augmented by notable formed collections: J.M. Braga collection on the Portuguese in Asia; Professor George Coedes (1886-1970) collection on Indo-China; Professor H.G. Luce (1889-1979) collection on Burma; Professor H. Otley Beyer (1883-1966) on the Philippines; Harold S. Williams (1898-1987) collection on Japan; London Missionary Society collection relating to the Taiping Rebellion & Christianity in China. Microform resources also considerable.

    Comments: The collection is uneven, and generally at the basic level. Two special collections are devoted to the former Belgian Congo and French exploration and activity in Africa. The Library also holds a notable privately formed collection of approximately 4500 pieces on Mauritius.

    Comments: America on Record: a guide to works and other materials relating to the United States of America in the National Library of Australia (published in 1976 to mark the Bicentenary of American independence), details the NLA's extensive collection of books, serials, government documents, maps and microforms relating to the United States. Materials relating to Canada are slightly less extensive but include government publications and a microform collection of Canadiana published prior to 1900.

    Comments: The Mendel collection, together with the Guimares, Lacap-Booth, Lopez and Paraguayan collections were transferred on long-term loan to La Trobe University Library in 1991.

    Comments: Australiana

    Comments: Extensive collection of material relating to Antarctica - includes comprehensive collection relating to the Australian Territory, most publications of expeditions to the Mainland of Antarctica, significant holdings of maps, manuscripts & pictorial material including diaries, papers & photographs of figures such as T. Griffith Taylor & Frank Hurley. Considerable resources relating to the Pacific. Comprehensive microfilm collection of manuscript material copied by the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau .

Language and literature

    Comments: English http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/english/default.htm

    Comments: Basic general collection with some significant strengths for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. Coverage of PNG & Pacific Island languages also good. The Professor Walter Simon (1893-1981) formed collection, reflects his research interests in the Chinese, Tibetan, Manchu and Mongolian languages. The collection of Professor P.O.L. Tobing also covers the field of Indonesian linguistics.

    Comments: Australian Language, Slang and Strine http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/english/aust/austlang.htm English Language http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/english/lang.htm

    Comments: http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/english/aust/default.htm

    Comments: Australian Poets and Poetry http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/english/aust/austpoet.htm Poetry and Poets http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/english/poetry/default.htm

    Comments: Theatre, Drama, Speaking and Debating http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/english/drama/default.htm

    Comments: Australian Fiction http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/english/aust/austfiction.htm Fiction http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/english/fiction/default.htm
- Classics (Latin and Greek) [Study - Basic]

    Comments: Beginning with the microfilm series German Books before 1601 special efforts were made in the 1970s to develop a representative body of the collected works of German literary authors. It includes microfilm copies of 3,087 volumes of the Yale University collection of items published in the Baroque era (1575-1740) and 23 periodical titles in which writers of the Romantic Movement (1796-1830) found expression; another series was devoted to the influence of that movement upon English writers.

    Comments: The French literature collection developed intensively from the 1950s to the early 1980s provides some strengths from the 18th to early 20th centuries. Formed collections (Clifford, Giuseppe Pelli, Rene Durand, French drama 1701-1840) and the microfilm series French Books before 1601 add some depth. Spanish, Italian and Portuguese collections are less extensive but include such notable material as the Valente library in Portuguese and a collection of Spanish drama in its golden age, 1492-1600.

Law

    Comments: International treaties & law reports, conventions & the publications of a wide range of bodies - eg UN, International Court of Justice, International Law Commission, International Commission of Jurists, human rights bodies & other legal commissions. Selectively collect basic general treatises & periodicals, providing commentary on & interpretation of international law. All treaties registered with League of Nations 1926-1946 & treaties registered with the Secretariat of the UN 1947-present.

    Comments: Some strength in law reports, particularly old English law reports which - augmented by Early English Books series 1641-1700 on microform. American State Reports prior to the National Reporter. Extensive collection of Indian law reports & works on Indonesian adat or traditional law. Particularly strong in legislation from Canada, NZ, UK & USA - including state material on microfiche in State Session Laws. Legislation from Asia/Pacific well represented.

Library science and interdisciplinary works

    Comments: http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/library/lib/libcat.htm

    Comments: Bibliographies, general encyclopaedic works, & guides to general organisations are represented in the collection by a wide variety of works. Wide but not comprehensive collection of National bibliographies. For the major publishing nations, bibliographies supplemented, where possible, by national trade publications listing in-print titles. Selected individual booksellers' & publishers' catalogues in fields which the institution has actively collected.

    Comments: Good cross-section of the monograph & serial literature, with some aspects of the discipline relevant to the Library's own fields of operation held at research or near research level - including: all functions associated with the development, control, management & preservation of a large collection; provision of reference, referral & document delivery services; functions of national coordination and international liaison; activities of management, promotion & innovative technological support.

    Comments: A wide variety of general encyclopaedias in English and other languages is held in the collection together with guides to general organisations at the national and international levels.

    Comments: Extensive collection of newspapers. Collect all Australian capital city dailies, as well as major country newspapers, newspapers published by ethnic groups & political organisations, as well as newspapers representing special interests. Overseas collection is made up of a wide selection of major national & international papers with titles from most countries of the world.

Mathematics

    Comments: Mathematics http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/maths/default.htm

Medicine

    Comments: Health and Medicine http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/pe/health/default.htm

    Comments: Human Biology http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/science/human/default.htm

    Comments: Health and Medicine http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/pe/health/default.htm

    Comments: Diseases http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/pe/health/diseases.htm

    Comments: Disability and Handicap http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/pe/health/dis.htm Disability and Handicap: History http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/pe/health/dishist.htm Education Support for Students with Differing Needs http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/teaching/edsupp/default.htm Sports for the Disabled http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/pe/sociol/disabled.htm

Music

    Comments: Music http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/arts/music/default.htm

Performing arts

    Comments: Media http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/english/media/default.htm

Philosophy and religion [Study - Advanced]

    Comments: The existing collection is strong enough to support sustained independent study in many aspects of philosophy, especially nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century British and American thought. The collection of basic, specialist and national journals and publications of learned bodies gives a wide overview of contemporary ideas and developments.
- Ethics [Study - Advanced]
- Religion (general) [Study - Intermediate]
- Bible [Study - Advanced]
- Christian theology [Study - Advanced]
- Christian church [Study - Advanced]

    Comments: Collection enriched some years ago by the acquisition of the Australian Buddhist Library.

    Comments: Islam, particularly in Indonesia, is well represented.

Physical education, recreation and sport

    Comments: Physical Education; Health; Sport http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/pe/default.htm

    Comments: Besides Australian publications collected comprehensively, several formed collections on cricket (integrated into the main collection) provide some additional strengths to the collection.

    Comments: Collections of Dr G.P. Charles (covering all aspects of angling) and Sir Peter Crisp (fishing) constitute a notable research level strength.

Physics and astronomy

    Comments: Astronomy http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/science/astronomy/default.htm Physics http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/science/physics/default.htm

    Comments: Physics http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/science/physics/default.htm

    Comments: Astronomy http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/science/astronomy/default.htm

Political and military studies

    Comments: A strong collection of monographs and a wide selection of serials on government and public administration form the core of the Library's collection in this topic. General works on the subject are acquired as well as relevant government publications from the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States of America, New Zealand and the countries of East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific.

    Comments: The history of individual armed conflicts has been collected at greater depth, notably World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War.

Psychology

    Comments: A limited selection of works is acquired to provide an overview of current trends and developments in this discipline. Some works are acquired in the field of applied psychology, in areas such as human relations, human development and communication where these explain and define general social, cultural and management issues.

Sociology

    Comments: Society, Environment; Social Studies http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/sose/default.htm

Collection assessment reports: http://www.jtl.vic.edu.au/MCD/TabWhitley.htm
Highlights of the collection: Collection covers all areas of theology, including biblical languages, biblical studies, church history, systematic theology, ministerial studies, pastoral care, missiology, ethics and religious education. Includes special Baptist history collection as well as a strong Australian studies section. Books and periodical holdings total some 40,000 volumes. The library currently subscribes to over 160 periodical titles as well as several full-text online databases.

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