Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute

On this page are some common links to websites:

State Library of Victoria

• ergo
  The ergo website helps students improve their study, time management and literacy skills as well as providing information about formative events in Victoria’s history. There are new sections on World War I, World War II and gold, and also new coverage of pastoral Victoria, exploration and the exploitation of land.

• inside a dog
  Get the low-down on the latest in the world of young adult literature at the inside a dog website.

• The La Trobe Journal
  Check out the La Trobe Journal website to access over 40 years of articles based on the Library's Australian collections.

• Mirror of the world
  Discover a world of cuneiform tablets, manuscripts and books – including pages from the Book of hours, the Koran and Das kapital – that you can get up close and personal with on the Mirror of the world website.

• A place called Victoria
  The stories of landscape designer Edna Walling, explorers Burke and Wills, artist Eric Thake, and Victorian Aboriginals and soldiers are featured on the A place called Victoria website.

• Your treasures
  Share your personal treasures – such as photos, art, jewellery, glass and textiles – with others on the Your treasures website.

• Vicnet
  Vicnet delivers programs and services for the community on behalf of clients, including government, corporate, community and philanthropic organisations.

• Victoria Government Gazette
  Access over 160 years of official information published in and about Victoria on the Victoria Government Gazette website.

General Literature Information

• Bibliomania
  Description: An interesting site containg Classic books to read but also additional articles for research etc.

• Classic Books
  Description: All the Classics free for reading. This site facilitates reading texts from the screen.

• Project Gutenberg
  Description: Here you can find complete electronic copies of all the classics and other out-of-copyright materials.

• The Online Literature Library
  Description: A simple but effective method of accessing the Classics

• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library
  A plethora of information about all sorts of topics

• WorldCat Libraries
  1.5 billion articles on libraries around the world.

• Free Learning Objects
  This site contains thousands of free downloadable learning content.

Mechanics Institutes

• Kilmore Mechanics Institute
  Description: The Kilmore Mechanics’ Institute & Free Library was formed at a public meeting held in Kilmore in 1854. Soon it had leased a meeting room and reading room, and then it moved into an old police lock up.

• Mechanics Institute San Francisco
  Description: This is a lively website containing lots of activities

• The Melbourne Athenaeum
  Description: Founded in 1839 the Melbourne Athenaeum has always been a leader in the cultural life of the city, identifying and supporting new trends and continuing old traditions.

• Prahran Mechanics Institute
  Description: The Prahran Mechanics' Institute (est. 1854), a community owned and run library specialising in the history of Victoria, Australia.

Publishers

• Amazon
  Description: Here you can purchase your books online.

• Google Book Search
  Description: Get excerpts or all content from all the main publishers at Google Book Search

• Publishers Weekly
  Description: A great fiction site. Lots of blogs, podcasts, talks etc.

Ballarat History

• Ballarat & District Genealogical Society : Ballarat history, genealogy ...
  , family history, Goldfields Region, Victoria, Australia.
  Names - Shipping & Passenger Records - Ballarat Family History Links on the ...

• Ballarat Historical Society
  The Ballarat Historical Society preserves items of historical importance and encourages research into the social history of the region

• Ballarat History
  Ballarat is Victoria's largest inland city. It started back in 1838 when a squatter called William Yuille camped on the shores of the Black Swamp

• Ballarat Historic Timeline

  Historic Timeline - Municipality of Ballarat Courtesy of Max Harris and Jenny Burrell Panoramas of Ballarat - Published by Max Harris Photography

• City of Ballarat Home Page
  The City of Ballarat website, includes services, events, council information, tourism, ... Ballarat's Cultural and Historical Collections to be made more accessible

• Ballarat Historical Society Photograph Collection

  Ballarat Historical Society Photograph Collection

• University of Ballarat

  The University of Ballarat is one of Australia's newer universities as well as the third oldest tertiary institution.