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Membership entitles you to borrow materials from any of our 6 Library branches.




 

Arts

Fine Arts
  • The Artchive
    An excellent site offering information on over 200 artists (with over 2000 images of artworks), art theory and criticism, and links to other art sites.
  • Artcyclopedia
    The guide to museum quality art on the Internet. Search by artist, artwork or museum or browse the database of over 7500 artists.
  • ADAM: Art, Design, Architecture and Media Information Gateway
    A searchable catalogue of 2546 Internet resources that have been carefully selected and catalogued by professional librarians for the benefit of the higher education community.
  • Art on the Net
    Offers artists a place where they can have studios and gallery rooms that can be accessed via the WWW, where artists can come to learn how to get themselves and their art up on the Internet, and a meeting place where people can come to find out about art happenings on the net.
  • Arts and Letters Daily
    Free access to some full-text journals and newspapers.  It includes links to the world's quality broadsheets, online magazines and literary reviews. Said to be the world's best site in 1998 by Britain's Observer newspaper, it has been called an intellectual portal for people who read and are interested in books.
  • In the Artist's Footsteps
    A site for art lovers and students throughout the world to gain an appreciation of the lives and works of Australian Artists and the social environments in which they lived and painted. So far it covers the Icon painters of the Australian Heidelberg School. This project also showcases research into local artists conducted by schools and their students.
  • Arts Blue Mountains
    A directory of arts related groups and organisations in the Blue Mountains.
  • Australia Council for the Arts
    Grants info and links to arts sites.
  • Cultural Organisations Register
  • Art Quotes
    Featuring a biweekly newsletter with visual art news, inspirational art quotes, artist interviews, artist biographies and art directory.
  • Intute: Arts and Humanities
    Free online service providing access to the best web resources for education and resources.
Music
Film and Theatre
  • AllWatchers.Com  
    Database of movie information and reviews. Search by name, plot, theme, character and more.
  • Theatre Australia (independent theatre association)
    Find out what's happening in the theatre world and find contact details for theatre companies Australia wide.
  • Sydney Film Festival
    News, reviews and programs for the festival.
  • The Internet Movie Database
    Information on over 250,000 movies made since the dawn of cinema plus even more on over 900,000 people who helped make them (actors and actresses, directors, writers and a wide variety of other folks from producers to gaffers and everything in between).
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