ANU Library collections - not just replaced, but massively improved!
The ANU Library have not only replaced items, but have massively improved collections!
On 25 February, we mark four years since the devastating flood in the Chifley Library.
Since that time, the ANU community have done incredible work to rebuild our collections, buildings and facilities. We have not only replaced items in our collection, but have massively improved them – with almost 10 million additional items added to the ANU Library collections!
Here are some highlights from our replacement project:
Monographs
The ANU Library is building an extremely strong collection as they move through this replacement program.
Over 34,400 monographs have been made available to replace those that were lost, and to fill gaps where exact replacements cannot be acquired.
Massive amounts of new items have been added to enrich the collection and strengthen teaching and research at the University.
eBooks
There has been huge growth to the range of eBooks available through the ANU Library as a result of collection rebuilding. Library users can have access to many thousands of new and replacement eBooks that cover a wide range of disciplines from the social sciences and humanities.
For example, we acquired over 2,500 eBooks from Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Brill and De Gruyter. Many of these titles focus on Philosophy and History – the two largest collections that were impacted by flooding.
We also acquired 908 new eBooks through the ProQuest Australian Indigenous Collection. This extensive and authoritative collection spans a broad and diverse range of subject areas, including arts, education, health, science, medicine, history, social science, language, linguistics, law, and religion, as well as a selection of adult and juvenile fiction.
Serials
Serials have been a major area of activity in the flood replacement program.
The ANU Library recently acquired an amazing range of materials from JSTOR – with over 155,000 issues added to the collection! Other collections from Taylor & Francis and Wiley, have significantly increased resources available to the ANU community.
Some of the titles include:
- Philosophical Transactions (Biological Sciences and Maths/Engineering)
- Proceedings
- Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes
- Archivio Storico Italiano
- History
- Dialectica
- The Historian
- Revue Internationale de Philosophie
- International Review of Social History
- Anglo-Saxon England
- Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte
- Quaderni storici
- Archives de Philosophie
- Philosophia Reformata
Archival collections
The ANU Library recently acquired the historical Nineteenth Century Collections Online archives with over 1.3 million titles, which includes collections on:
- Asia and the West
- British Theatre, Music and Literature
- British Politics and Society
- Religion, Reform and Society
These collections contain a variety of documents (monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, photographs, statistics) in both Western and non-Western languages, including rare and fragile materials unavailable for use through other means.
Newspapers
The ANU Library now has access to the British Library Newspaper collection, which includes newspapers from the early 18th century to the 2000s. This is one of the richest collections of primary source newspaper materials ever made available digitally, and is fully searchable.
Other newspaper collections acquired include:
Requesting flood replacement material
We welcome your suggestions for purchases to replace items that were lost, or to further improve our collections.
If you require any material that was lost in the flood and has not yet been replaced, please get in touch. We will prioritise your request, and try to locate an interim copy until a replacement is found.
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