South Sea Islander Studies

This guide is designed to help you access information about the South Sea Islander peoples. It is not a comprehensive guide to the Library collections, nor is it intended to recommend selected resources over others. For a wider selection of resources, please consult the online catalogue, Tropicat.

 

Reference Collection

Definitions, explanations and similar information may be found in dictionaries, encyclopaedias and thesauruses. These are good places to start researching a topic. Examples are:

APAIS Thesaurus: A list of subject terms in the Australian Public Affairs Information Service. Canberra: National Library of Australia.

919.40016 P2

Dictionary of Australian History. Sydney: Macquarie Library.

R994.003 MUR

Jupp, J. (Ed.). (2001). The Australian people: an encyclopaedia of the nation it's people and their origins. Cambridge: Oakleigh Vic., Cambridge University Press.

R 994 AUS T11 2001

 

Locating Information about the topic

The library collections include many books dealing with specific areas of South Sea Islanders. Many of these can be found in the Douglas library building. Examples include:

Bandler, F. (1993). Faith Bandler born 1920: civil rights activist. Lindfield, NSW: Film Australia.

AV 994.05092 BAN/BAN

Berry, M. (2000). Refined white: the story of how South Sea Islanders came to cut sugar cane in Queensland and made history refining the White Australian Policy. Innisfail, Qld: Australian Sugar Industry Museum.

CC 633.6109943 BER

Docker, E.W. (1970). The blackbirders: a brutal story of the Kanaka slave trade. London: Angus & Robertson.

331.629340943 DOC

Hayes, L. (2001). On Plantation Creek: a community history of the Australian South Sea Islanders in the Burdekin Shire. Burdekin, OLD: Burdekin Shire Council.

305.899409436 HAY

Menzies, C. (1992). The call for recognition: a report on the situation of Australian South Sea Islanders. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service.

305.8995094 AUS

Moore, C. Pacific Islander birth, marriage and death register sortings, from Mackay, 1879-1959. (2 vols.).

NQ 929.9436 PAC

Young, F.S.H. (1926). Pearls from the Pacific. London: Marshall Bros.

266.09 YOU

 

 

Journals

Journals, also known as periodicals, serials, newspapers and magazines, are items published at intervals: for example weekly, monthly or annually. If you require more detailed or up -to-date discussion of a topic, or basic research results, you will probably need to look for journal articles. Individual articles published in journals are not entered in Tropicat. Each journal is regarded as an entity and the overall journal title is recorded in Tropicat. This entry will tell you the call number and the years and volumes held.

There are journals relevant to South Sea Islander people:

Australian Historical Studies 1988+

994 P2

Journal of Social History .1968+

309.1 P1

Finding More on Tropicat

Tropicat is the Catalogue of resources held in the Library. If you don't know the author or title of an item you can also search using 'keywords in title, subject etc'. Examples include:

Melanesians, Australia -- Recognition
Pacific Islanders, Queensland -- History

There are guides to Tropicat available in print and on the web. Please ask at InfoHelp.

 

Journal Indexes in Print

Finding the most useful articles will require using appropriate journal indexes and abstracts. Information is commonly indexed by subject and author.

APAIS: Australian Public Affairs Information Service

R 919.40016 P2
(This is also available via the Internet.)

 

Internet Database Services

Some journal indexing services are held as remote computer database files accessed via the Internet. Several of these services provide the full text of a range of journals. Some require passwords available from InfoHelp. A number of electronic database services and fulltext journals are listed on the Library's World Wide Web Resources page at the following Internet address.

http://www.library.jcu.edu.au/Resources/datasets.shtml

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Online: ATSI subsets of Australian databases available via Informit Online

InfoTrac contains Expanded Academic ASAP featuring many fulltext articles

 

Internet

Access to the Internet and the World Wide Web is available from the Library building, School of Indigenous Australian Studies and computer labs on campus. Both the School and the Library's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Library Liaison Officer, Leta Lenoy, have home pages on the Web, with links to a number of South Sea Islander sites.

http://www.library.jcu.edu.au/Staff/leta.shtml
http://www.faess.jcu.edu.au/sias/

If you need any help in the Library, please come to InfoHelp. Ask to see the Library's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Library Liaison Officer, Leta Lenoy.

If this information is inadequate, incorrect, or can be improved in any way, please let us know