AustLit aims to be the definitive virtual research environment and information resource for Australian literary, print, and narrative culture.
Access for AustLit for DEC schools:
Go http://www.austlit.edu.au/ and initiate a search, and login when prompted
You will need to access the confidential DEC User name & Password
By drawing on resources from specialised areas of research within AustLit, AustLit can help teachers address the three primary cross-curriculum objectives of the National Curriculum.
ASIA AND AUSTRALIA’S ENGAGEMENT WITH ASIA
Three AustLit research areas provide useful background about Australia's relationship with Asia.
– Asian-Australian Children’s Literature and Publishing provides information about fiction for children that is
— set in Asia
— represents Asian-Australian cultures and experiences
— published in selected Asian languages.
– Children’s Literature Digital Resources make available a number of children’s literature Research and Learning Trails.
– Australian Literary Responses to 'Asia' tracks literary responses by Australian writers to that diverse region called 'Asia'.
ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER HISTORIES AND CULTURES
BlackWords provides searchable information about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers, storytellers and their published and unpublished books, stories, plays, poems and criticism. It includes works in English and in Indigenous Australian languages.
Children's Literature Digital Resources is a full text digital repository of Australian children’s literature from 1830 to 1945. Users can read online the complete texts of a selection of early Australian children’s literature, both popular and rare.
Digitised items include children’s and young adult fiction, poetry, short stories, and picture books.
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In AusLit I discovered: ASIAN-AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN'S LITERATUREGreat for new Australian Curriculum
The Asian-Australian Children’s Literature and Publishing (AACLAP) project investigates and records details of Australian children’s literature either set in Asia, works that contain Asian-Australian content or characters, works that represent Asian-Australian cultures and experiences, as well as hundreds of Australian works that have been translated into at least one Asian language.The collection includes autobiographical works, fiction, criticism, poetry, drama, short stories, and picture books.
All Australian schools have free access to AustLit plus registered patrons of Australian libraries, such as national, state and territory, university, or government department libraries, have full access to AustLit through their membership of those libraries.
Teachers and students of Australian schools enquiring about access should contact their school's state-based education authority. Your school liaison librarian or teacher/librarian may also have access details.
