Student Assignments: Information about the local area and Council
Do you need access to information about your local area or Council?
The following guide is to help direct you to useful resources on our web site.
A-Z Listing of Services
A useful tool with alphabetical lists of key topics that will help direct you to the right place.
Blue Mountains City Library Service
Try these pages maintained by library staff:
- About the Blue Mountains: links to local demographics, local history, images and more. Responses to Frequently Asked Questions about the Blue Mountains are available to download (see right of screen).
Blue Mountains: links to local sites with local information. - Library Catalogue: the library has an extensive collection including books, DVDs, CDs, magazines and newspapers. The reference collection includes HSC, local history and family history collections. You can request items online.
- Premium Sites: specialised online resources that the library subscribes to on your behalf. Many of these sites can be accessed from the comfort of your home or anywhere else (you will need your library membership number).
- Recommended Sites: Links on a variety of topics selected by library staff
- Blue Mountains Library Delicious bookmarks: links from the library reference desk: select a tag appropriate to your topic on the right hand side.
Civics Education Kit
The Blue Mountains Civics Education Kit is based on material supplied by Blue Mountains City Council and the Local Government and Shires Association of NSW.
The Blue Mountains Civics Education Kit is designed to provide information of interest to students and teachers about local government and in particular, Blue Mountains City Council. This material is relevant to units of work prescribed in the Department of Education syllabus, particularly HSIE units on Democracy and Civics and Citizenship and is most suitable for primary school and junior high school.
The Civics Education Kit may be downloaded at right.
Community Plan
Provides a demographic and socioeconomic overview with useful information about the population and community of the Blue Mountains. It also contains information on sustainable living and how the Council and stakeholders can meet the basic service needs of the community and other groups with special needs.
Environment and Waste Management
Our Environmental Information and Waste Management sections have a range of factsheets, photos and other educational resources to download. Our State of Environment reports are a good place to start if your project is about environmental issues in the Blue Mountains.
Also get access online to the library's GreenFILE (see library's Premium Sites).
History
In addition to information available on the About the Blue Mountains page, our librarians recommend the following sites:
- Crossing the Blue Mountains: History of the Crossing of the Blue Mountains by the Europeans: see maps, journal entries and more. From the State Library of NSW.
- Australian Dictionary of Biography: For biographies of persons who were significant in Australian history.
- The Dictionary of Sydney: Sydney's history online.
Interactive maps
Useful for students studying a locality within the Blue Mountains Local Government Area. You can enter a town or even an address to obtain a map of that location.
Plans of Management for Community Land
Provide locality specific information about the physical environment, history, cultural values, and management issues and how Council plans to manage local areas.
Population Profile, Forecast and Social Atlas
For assignment questions that require information such as cultural diversity in the Blue Mountains, languages spoken at home, numbers of Aboriginal people, number of young people living in the area and employment statistics.
Tourism
Our Blue Mountains City Tourism Centres may be able to help you. Visit the Blue Mountains City Tourism for information on Blue Mountains tourism.
Still can't find what you are looking for?
Contact the library.