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Finding Books

The Library Catalogue is a good place to search for Books and eBooks.
Remember - your Textbooks, Recommended Readings and Further Readings are a good source of information. They are listed in your Unit Outline.

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Key eBook Collections for Literature:

Project Gutenburg
Over 100,000 books available for free, mostly older out of print titles by authors such as Jane Austen, Dante, Charles Dickens, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Herman Melville, H.G.Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, Goethe, William Shakespeare, Leo Tolstoy, Oscar Wilde.

Australian Literary and Historical Texts
A University of Sydney collection of over 300 out of print texts by authors such as Barbara Baynton, Rolf Boldrewood, C.J.Dennis, Joseph Furphy, Henry Lawson, Louisa Lawson, A.B.Paterson, Rosa Praed, Henry Handel Richardson, Steele Rudd, Catherine Spence.

Ebrary
An American multidisciplinary electronic book package with about 3800 books on literature. Users off-campus must download the eBrary reader first to read, print or copy.

Blackwell Reference Online

Try these numbers on the Library shelves:

African literature
896
American literature
809
Australian literature
A820
Bibliographies (lists of books & articles on Australian literature)
016
Culture - Philosophy
301 or 306
East and Southeast Asian literature
895
English fiction
823
English literature
820
French literature
840
Germanic languages literature
830
Greek literature
880
Italian and Romanian literature
850
Latin literature
870
Postmodernism
various
Rhetoric
808

Not sure how to use the Library catalogue? Try our online tutorials:

How do I get a book from another campus? Have a look at the Requesting items using the Library catalogue online tutorial.

Still not sure? - Ask your Librarian

Off-campus access: Login using your ACU network username and password. Off-campus login instructions.

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The resources available through this web site are for Australian Catholic University learning, teaching, research and administration only. Use of subscribed electronic resources is subject to the terms and conditions of individual publisher licences. Use of other resources is subject to copyright.