13.1 Anthropology and Archaeology

13.1.1 Purpose of the collection

The library collects in the subject area of Anthropology and Archaeology primarily to support the teaching, research and community needs of the Anthropology and Archaeology sections of the School of Social Science. The discipline uniquely focuses on understanding humans and human behaviour through a cross-cultural perspective and as such has significant links to the humanities, natural sciences and social sciences.

13.1.2 Primary user group served

The school offers a Bachelor of Arts, and Honours through the Faculty of Arts. The school also makes a substantial contribution to the Bachelor of Social Science in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. Honours and a Master of Social Science are available through this Faculty. Candidates for Higher Degree research are also accepted.

At the Undergraduate level areas of teaching focus on the broader field of general anthropology, which includes four sub-disciplines - archaeology/prehistory, linguistic anthropology, physical anthropology, and socio-cultural anthropology

• Archaeology/prehistory including contemporary archaeological theory / methodology / practice, historical archaeology, World prehistory, Australasian Aboriginal & Pacific peoples, Australian coastal archaeology, Maya civilisation, molecular archaeology, prehistoric residue analysis and museum anthropology
• Linguistic anthropology including evolution, history and functions of human languages and speech, language as social action cross-culturally in formal and informal settings, Indigenous Australian languages, Aboriginal English, language and gender
• Physical anthropology including human biological evolution, cultural and biological factors in human evolution and adaptation
• Social cultural anthropology including cultural and social structural approaches, Aboriginal and Islander studies, material culture studies, functionalist, Marxist and interactionist theories, history of anthropological theory, ethnography from Africa, Australia and North America, ethnographic methodology, cultural heritage and built heritage management, medical anthropology, law and anthropology, political/human ecology of Indigenous peoples in Asia/Pacific especially Melanesia and Philippines

At the Academic, Research and Postgraduate level - research interests cover this same wide anthropological view of the world. Some current research projects are:-

• Animating Landscape
• Diwurruwurru Uanyuwa website
• Forget about Flinders: Towards a post colonial atlas of the southwestern Gulf of Carpentaria.
• Landscapes, Memory and Music
• People without faces and Land management Issues: Tourism and Indigenous communities in the southwest Gulf of Carpentaria
• New Orientations: Gender and Information and Communication Technologies in the Asia Pacific
• Present but Not Counted: Rural and Urban Womens Unpaid Labour Pilot Project
• Gender and Kunie Women in New Caledonia
• Indigenous Resource Management
• Integrated Teaching and Student Learning
• Quandamooka Heritage (Moreton Bay)
• 2 million year old residues on Stone tool from Sterkfontein Cave
• Characterisation of novel Nano-organisms
• Genes, Teeth, Bones and Evolution
• Archaeological Research at Copan, Honduras

13.1.3. Description of the collection

The collections cover the School's broad theme areas: Family and Individual Well being, Indigenous Cultures, Cultural Heritage and Archaeological Science, Communication and Cultural Studies, Social Cohesion and Identity, and Development. Print resources consisting of books, reference material and journals are being significantly enhanced by access to many electronic bibliographic databases and e-resources.

Strengths lie in the academic journals devoted to the social sciences in general, academic journals devoted particularly to Anthropology and monographs relating to Australian Aboriginal and Islander Studies, Ethnography, Melanesia particularly Papua ,and cross-cultural data sets like the Ehraf Collection of Ethnography. <.p>

The Library subscribes to major journal indexing services that cover this broad disciplinary area with titles such as Anthropological plus, APAIS, APAIS-ATSIS, AIATSIS, Australian Heritage Bibliography (HERA), Mura, Sociological Abstracts, Social Sciences Plus, Humanities index, Web of Knowledge. Increasingly access is to the full text online of the major disciplinary journals.

Resource guides are also produced to link users to relevant information.

13.1.4. Interdisciplinary relationships

Anthropology broadly speaking covers the GN area but also shares common areas of interest with the Archaeology (CC), History of Australia & Oceania (DU), History of America(E&F), Human Ecology and Anthropogeography (GF)

Scope of current collecting

1. Languages collected

The bulk of the collection is in English, though no languages are excluded.

2. Geographical areas collected

No Geographical areas collected, however there is strong emphasis on maintaining depth in Australian material.

3. Chronological periods collected

No chronological periods are specially excluded.

4. Types (formats) of material collected

No types of material are excluded. However at present the emphasis is on journal and monograph literature.

5. Publication dates

The emphasis is on collecting recent publications, however older materials will be purchased to support teaching and research.

6. Conspectus

Substantial parts of the holdings were assessed as being of the intermediate introductory (3a) or intermediate augmented (3b) and /or research (4) level in the library's assessment of its collections by the Conspectus method in 1993-94.

13.2 Sociology

13.2.1 Purpose of the collection

The library collects in the field of Sociology primarily to support the teaching research and community needs of the Sociology section of the School of Social Science.

The discipline however has significant links to other teaching and research areas in the humanities, natural sciences and social sciences.

13.2.2 Primary user groups served

The school offers a Bachelor of Arts and Honours through the Faculty of Arts. The school also makes a substantial contribution to the Bachelor of Social Science in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. Honours, and a Master of Social Science are also available through this Faculty.

A coursework Masters program is also offered – Plan areas are Criminology, Social Planning and Health Practice. A Masters of Development Practice is also offered as a Faculty program. Candidates for Higher Degree research are also accepted.

At the Undergraduate level, areas of teaching reflecting important contemporary issues include sociological theory and research methodology, development theories and practice, criminology & criminal justice system, multiculturalism and race, families and households, health and illness, sociology of sport, social planning and social impact research methodology, sociology of Australian society, class and gender studies, media and cultural analysis, globalisation, new technologies and future societies, environmental and regional sociology

At the Academic, Research and Postgraduate level research interests cover this same wide spectrum of important contemporary issues with the addition of advanced level theoretical and methodological subjects. Some current research projects are:

• Negotiating the Lifecourse: Household Organisation and Labour Force involvement
• Neoliberalism, Inequality and Politics
• Communicative Interaction on Kids Help Line
• Technical Advice giving on a Software Helpline
• Visual data in Social and Cultural Inquiry
• Engaged Government: a study of Government-Community Engagement for regional Outcomes
• Building Sustainable Social Capital in New Communities
• Site-Level Community Engagement Processes in the Australian Minerals Industry: a comparative analysis.
• Transnationalism and Taiwanese Young People in Australia
• Agriculture, the Environment and the Politics of Sustainability
• Globalisation, Localisation and the Restructuring of Regional Australia
• Sociology of Agribiotechnologies
• “Imagineering” the Nation
• Consumerism and Sustainable Development
• Determinants of Quality of Life in Cities: the South East Queensland in Comparative perspective
• Developmental Determinants of Crash Behaviour
• Longitudinal Study of Social Factors influencing the Health of Mothers and their children
• Summary of National Study of Health Intimacy and Social Relations
• Local experiences of Globalization: an Australian perspective
• New pathways and Belief formation in a High School setting
• Constructing Singapore: Elitism, Ethnicity and the National Building project
• Inequalities, Identities, Politics

13.2.3 Description of existing collection

The collections cover the School's broad theme areas: Family and Individual Well being, Indigenous Cultures, Cultural Heritage and Archaeological Science, Communication and Cultural Studies, Social Cohesion and Identity, and Development. Print resources consisting of books, reference material and journals are being significantly enhanced by access to many electronic bibliographic databases and full text e-resources.

Greatest strengths lie in the academic periodicals devoted to the social sciences in general, academic periodicals (both print and e-fulltext) devoted particularly to sociology and Australian publications, both academic and data sets like the Australian Bureau of Statistics publications and Census material.

Areas pertaining to sociological analysis of Australian society such as family, gender studies, feminism, urbanization, class analysis, criminology, media, aboriginal studies, race relations, social policy score a research (4)level. Newer contemporary areas such as future societies, cybercultures, aids and society, men's studies, and regional and environmental sociology are developing.

The library subscribes to the major international sociological indexing service Sociological Abstracts supported by other Social Sciences databases such as Apais, Apais-Atsis, Family, Mais (Multicultural affairs), Cinch(Criminology), Proquest Social Sciences Journals, PAIS, Social Services Abstracts, Infotrac , Cinahl (Nursing and Allied health)

Resource guides are also produced to link users to relevant information.

13.2.4 Interdisciplinary relationships

As previously mentioned all teaching and research areas with some social orientation are likely to draw on the general social science titles classified at H, for theory, methodology and empirical data and its subdivisions – HM, HQ, HS, HT, HV. Other areas shared are BF, BL, DU, GF, RA.

Scope of current collecting

1. Languages collected

The bulk of the collection is in English, though no languages are excluded.

2. Geographical areas collected

No Geographical areas excluded, however there is a strong emphasis on maintaining depth in Australian material.

3. Chronological periods collected

No chronological periods are specifically excluded.

4. Types (formats) of material collected

No types of material are excluded. However at present the emphasis is on journal and monograph literature.

5. Publication dates

The emphasis is on collecting recent publications, however older materials will be purchased to support teaching and research.

6. Conspectus

Substantial parts of the holdings were assessed as being of the intermediate introductory (3a) or intermediate augmented (3b) and /or research (4) level in the library's assessment of its collections by the Conspectus method in 1993-94.

13.3.1 Purpose of the collection

The Library collects material in the subject area of education primarily to support the teaching and research requirements of the Graduate School of Education, which includes the Fred and Eleanor Schonell Special Education Research Centre. Because of the nature of the collection, it is used by staff and students from other faculties and schools, by students doing practical teaching at state schools, and also by external students.

13.3.2 Primary user groups served

The Library acquires material to support the curriculum within the Graduate School of Education which focuses on special education, educational policy, learning and human development, behaviour analysis, comparative and international education, instructional technology, schools and curriculum studies.

Postgraduate coursework focuses on teaching and learning, assessment, educational planning and reform, statistical methods, counselling and managing behaviour, developmental processes, educational psychology, school reform, curriculum design, literacy and reading, and educational planning, history and research.

The Library acquires material to support a number of Postgraduate programs, including the Bachelor of Educational Studies (Hons), the Graduate Bachelor of Education, Graduate Certificate in Education, the PG Diploma in Educational Studies, the PG Diploma in Professional Educational Studies, the PG Diploma in Educational Studies as well as postgraduate research degrees leading to the awards of Master of Education, Master of Educational Studies (Guidance and Counselling), Master of Educational Administration, Master of Educational Psychology, Master of Educational Studies (Coursework and Research) and Doctor of Philosophy. Most courses are also offered to off-campus and external students.

13.3.3 Description of the collection

The emphasis is on collecting recent publications. Older publications may be purchased to support teaching and research.

The library also collects material in electronic format, e.g. the full text of articles and papers through databases available on the World Wide Web and through the University of Queensland Library network.

Microform material - particular the ERIC collection of education resources - also supports the collection.

13.3.4 Interdisciplinary relationships

The School of Education shares common areas of interest with other schools such as School of Psychology, School of Social Work and Social Policy, School of Political Science and International Studies, etc.

13.3.5 Scope of current collecting

1. Languages collected

The bulk of the collection is in English, though no languages are excluded.

2. Geographical areas collected

No geographical area is specifically excluded.

3. Chronological periods collected

No chronological periods are specifically excluded.

4. Types (formats) of material collected

No types of material are excluded. The emphasis is on journals, monograph literature and video material. Curriculum material is collected without regard to format and includes kits, videos, games and electronic materials.

5. Publication dates

The emphasis is on collecting recent publications. Older publications may be purchased to support teaching and research.

6. Special considerations

Curriculum materials from Queensland and some other states and countries are collected and housed in a separate collection called Curriculum Reserve. This material is designed to support students during school practical teaching. Queensland senior syllabi are collected and some selected LOTE material is also purchased for the Curriculum Reserve Collection. Textbooks and resources for teachers are also included in this collection.

A collection of Educational Tests is maintained within the School rather than the Library.

Several courses in Education have notable enrolments by remote students

7. Conspectus

• General education is 3a. Special education is 3b. Educational policy is 3a.
• Learning and human development is 3a.
• Behaviour analysis (character and personality) is 3a.
• Comparative education is 2b. Most countries are represented for comparative international education. Of these, the UK is 3a, the USA is 3a, Canada is 2a, and New Zealand is 3a.
• Within instructional technology, textbooks and instructional materials is 1a, while audiovisual materials is 3a.
• In the area of curriculum studies, preschool is 2b, elementary is 2b, and secondary curriculum is 3a.
• School laws and legislation are 2b, school administration and organisation is 3b.
• Teaching and learning is 3a/3b. Theory and practice of education is 3a.
• Tests and assessment instruments are 2b. Measurement and testing are 3a. Multi-aptitude tests are 2b, while intelligence tests are 3b.
• Statistical methods is 3b.
• Student guidance and counselling is 3a.
• Literacy is 3b, while illiteracy is also 3b.
• Educational history and research is 3b.
• Educational psychology is 3b.
• Developmental processes
• Sensory motor is 3a, speech and hearing is 3a, character and personality is 3a, development is 3a, intelligence is 3a, and neuropsychological is 3b.

• Economics of education is 3a, education and the state is 3b, alternative schools is 2b.
• Preschool curriculum is 2b, elementary curriculum is 2b, secondary curriculum is 3a.
• Reading (elementary) is 3a. Reading (secondary) is 3a.
• Educational history is 2b, and educational research is 3b.

13.4 Government

13.4.1 Purpose of the collection

The Library collects material in the subject area of political science primarily to support the teaching and research requirements of the School of Political Science and International Studies. Because of the nature of the collection, it is widely used by staff and students from many other schools.

13.4.2 Primary user groups served

The Library acquires material to support curriculum within the School of Political Science and International Studies which focuses, at the undergraduate level, on Australian Politics, Political Economy, Public Policy, Asian Politics, Comparative Politics (European, American and Asian), Gender Politics, International Relations, Peace Studies, Political Theory and Political Methods.

The Library acquires material to support a number of Postgraduate programs, including an Honours degree in Government, two coursework masters degrees in Labour Studies and International Relations/Asian Politics as well as postgraduate research degrees leading to the awards of Master of Social Science, Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy.

The library also acquires material to support the school’s Centres and Research Units:

• Centre for Democracy
• Labour and Industry Research Unit
• International Relations & Asian Politics Research Unit
• Rotary Centre for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

Because of the cross-disciplinary nature of the subject, the Library also acquires material from other subject areas including history, economics, commerce, management and law.

13.4.3 Description of existing collection

The collection consists of textbooks and background/research material on a range of Government-related areas such as international relations, peace and conflict studies, industrial relations, federal, state and local government, and politics. Parliamentary materials such as Hansard and Parliamentary Papers are also collected at both state and federal levels.

13.4.4 Interdisciplinary relationships

Government shares common areas of interest with other subject areas such as Journalism, Management and Economics.

13.4.5 Scope of current collecting

1. Languages collected

We collect primarily material in English.

2. Geographical areas collected

We collect material primarily related to Australia, the US, Canada, Western Europe, and the Asia-Pacific. We do not collect significant amounts of material on Africa, Latin America or Eastern Europe, since these are not teaching or research areas of current interest at UQ.

3.Chronological periods collected

The period of the twentieth century is probably the best represented chronological era, though eighteenth and nineteenth century material is also collected.

4. Types (forms) collected

The library also collects material in electronic format, e.g. the full text of articles and papers through databases available on the Web and through the University of Queensland Library network.

Publication dates

The emphasis is on recent publications.

6. Special considerations

None.

7. Conspectus

• Political Science consistently scores an overall rating of 3a.
• Official Documents score a rating of 3a, but particular strengths include Australian Commonwealth and Queensland, which rate a 4
• Collections and General Works - Treatises rates a 3 as does Constitutional History and Administration, including Political Rights and Guaranties; Government, Administration; and Political Parties. However there is a comparative lack in strength in the 1980’s of monographs and foreign language materials.
• Political Theory, Theory of the State; Nationalism, Minorities, Geopolitics; Forms of the State; The State and the Individual, Liberty, all score 3b.
• Constitutional History and Administration:
• North America, there is some deterioration in US monographs and primary sources and a lack of congressional material from the late 1970’s, leading to a rating of 2b as does Latin America and British materials.
• The Canadian collection is decisively better at 3a.
• Europe, with a score of 2b is an extremely variable collection, with fewer primary sources from the mid 1980’s
• Great Britain scores 3b to mid 1980’s with strengths in the 1830’s, and 1880-1914
• France scores 3a to 1986. Germany 3a to mid 1980’s, with the strongest holdings for social democratic parties and trade unionism to 1932.
• Russia (former Soviet Union) scores 3a with some strength in primary sources, including samizdata, 1917 onwards.
• Except for Great Britain the selection of European material is in languages other than English.
• Asia rates 2b with strengths in East and South East
• Africa rates 2a, comparatively stronger for East Africa and Nigeria.
• Australia, scores 3b but scores 4 for Australian national politics from 1945 onwards and Queensland. Increasing deficiencies in current source materials outside national, and Queensland politics. Particular strengths in Queensland trade unions and Labor, as well as student radicalism. Comparatively strong (AV)and (EP). New Zealand and the Pacific Islands both score 3a, however there are significant deficiencies in official published sources and local political material.
• Local Government rates 3a.
• Colonies and Colonization rates 3a.
• Immigration and Emigration rates 2b with Australia rating 3b despite a lack of ethnic newspapers. Quality of holdings varies greatly across other countries.
• International Arbitration, World Peace rate 3a - probably 3b to mid 1980’s cessation of most UN subscription series. Australia rates the highest at 4 although lacking some working and occasional papers. International Law rates 3.
• Diplomatics and Diplomatic Relations both score 1a.
• International Law, International Relations scores 3a with holdings of 30 of the top 40 most cited periodicals in SSCI. Treaties scores 3a, whilst United States holdings scores 3b, with deficiencies in recent official material.
• Military Science, the library either does not collect or has minimal coverage - rating is 0-1a.

13.5 Journalism

13.5.1 Purpose of the collection

The Library collects material in the subject area of journalism primarily to support the teaching and research requirements of the School of Journalism and Communication.

13.5.2 Primary user groups served

The Library acquires material to support the curriculum within the School of Journalism and Communication which focuses, at the undergraduate level, on introductory journalism, institutions in Australian society, elements of writing and grammar, radio journalism, newspaper reporting and writing, news communication theory, journalism law, comparative media systems, journalism research, journalism ethics, journalism history, journalism and society, print journalism, television journalism, advanced electronic journalism, desktop publishing, computer assisted reporting, feature writing, photojournalism, journalism theory and research, principles of reporting, investigative methods, the law and journalism, news media theory, international journalism, research methods, Australian media issues, broadcast journalism.

The Library acquires material to support a number of Postgraduate programs, including an Honours degree in Journalism, the Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism (PGDipJourn), the Master of Journalism (MJ), the Master of Arts (MA) and the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). The PGDipJourn and the MJ are primarily coursework awards, while the MA and PhD are research degrees.

Because of the cross-disciplinary nature of the subject, the Library also acquires material from other subject areas including government, history, economics, commerce, politics, social sciences and law.

13.5.3 Description of existing collection

The collection consists of textbooks and background/research materials on the history, theory and practice of journalism. This includes print journalism newspaper and magazine publishing), radio and television journalism, and online journalism (including Internet publishing).

13.5.4 Interdisciplinary relationships

There is some overlap with the School of English, Media Studies and Art History in the teaching of writing, grammar and writing style and in areas of media and mass communication studies. There is also some overlap with Government and Social Studies in the teaching of such courses as Institutions in Australian Society.

13.5.5 Scope of current collecting

The collection covers both the research/historical aspect of journalism as a profession and branch of literature as well as covering the practical "how to" side of journalism such as writing news, features and headlines, interviewing researching stories, and presenting stories on air via broadcast media.

1. Languages collected

We collect primarily material in English.

2. Geographical areas collected

Materials collected tend to have an English language bias and thus come mainly from Australia, the US and the UK. Other materials are purchased if relevant to courses or research, e.g. materials from a wide range of countries for courses such as Comparative Media.

3. Chronological periods collected

The collection’s primary focus, apart from the collection of material relevant to the teaching and research of journalism history, is on current journalistic practice, so materials tends to be very current, though older material may be retained for comparative purposes.

4. Types (forms) collected

The library also collects material in electronic format, e.g. the full text of articles and papers through databases available on the Web and through the University of Queensland Library network.

5. Publication dates

The emphasis is on collecting recent publications.

6. Special considerations

No special arrangements have been made at this stage.

7. Conspectus

• Journalism consistently scores an overall rating of 3a.
• Practical journalism – study and teaching (which includes introductory journalism) scores 3a. Journalism history scores 2b
• The law and journalism rates 3b.
• International journalism scores the following - USA 3a, Latin America 1b, Canada 1b, Western Europe 2b, Eastern Europe 2a (strengths only in Russian press), Asia 2a, Africa 1b
• Australian media issues scores 3a, and secondary material approaches 4, though material on regional media is lacking.

The library also collects material in electronic format, e.g. the full text of articles and papers through databases available on the World Wide Web, through the University of Queensland Library network and via direct modem connections, e.g. Reuters Business Briefing.

13.6 Psychology

13.6.1 Purpose of the collection

The library collects in the field of Psychology primarily to support the teaching and research needs of the School of Psychology. Resources in this area are also utilised to a varying extent by other schools in the University.

13.6.2 Primary user group served

The School of Psychology offers subjects in the following undergraduate courses: Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science. Honours may be accomplished by completing an additional 100 credit points from the psychology subject list.
First year psychology examines introductory contemporary psychology, research methodology and data research including statistics.
Second year core subjects include cognition, learning, social, developmental, applied psychology and psychological research methodology.
Third year electives are chosen from the following areas (applied/professional, social, developmental, biological and cognitive), in addition to a fourth elective from any area, or PY371 (Psychological research: Interpretation and evaluation).

Undergraduate psychology alone deals with more than 60 different courses.

Advanced psychology subjects are divided into the main branches of developmental psychology, physiological psychology, experimental design and analysis, social and organisational psychology and human associative psychology.

A program in cognitive science was introduced in 1991. This program comprises subjects in computer sciences, linguistics, philosophy and psychology plus core cognitive science subjects.

The school offers the following postgraduate courses:
Master of Clinical Psychology, Master of Clinical Psychology (Neuropsychology), Master of Organisational psychology, Master of Educational Psychology and Master of Sport and Exercise Psychology, PhD.

The School also offers a Doctor of Clinical Psychology program and two combined research and coursework PhD programs:
PhD (Clinical Psychology), PhD (Organizational Psychology)

Areas of research have been grouped into the broad categories of :

• clinical
• cognition and perception
• developmental
• evolutionary
• organisational
• social
• sport and exercise.

The library also acquires material to support the school’s Centres of Teaching and Research.

13.6.3 Description of the collection

Main collecting areas in the past few years have been Psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics, human environment, intergroup relations, physical disability, organisational behaviour, sports psychology (Sport and exercise psychology was introduced in 1996, and is run in conjunction with the School of Human Movement Studies), child psychology and habituation. Recent collecting centred on the areas of Gestalt, interpersonal, person-centred and reality therapies.

The Library subscribes to the major indexing services including the central title PsycInfo. Other indexes such as Medline and Social Sciences Index complement PsycInfo for stronger coverage of areas such as physiology and sociology.

13.6.4 Interdisciplinary relationships

Psychology is the basis for much research and teaching in the Social Sciences and the collection supports those schools.

13.6.5 Scope of current collection

1. Languages collected

The bulk of the collection is in English, though no languages are excluded.

2. Geographical areas collected

No geographical area is specifically excluded.

2. Chronological periods collected

No chronological periods are specifically excluded.

4. Types (formats) of material collected

No types of material are excluded. The emphasis is on journal and monograph literature.

5. Publication dates

The emphasis is on collecting recent publications. Older publications may be purchased to support teaching and research.

6. Special considerations

None.

7. Conspectus

The library has an extensive collection in the area of psychology. Resources inneuropsychology, neuropharmacology and genetic psychology are very strongly supported by the university’s general collections in physiology and medicine. A substantial part of these collections were assessed as being of research level when the library undertook an assessment of its collections by the Conspectus method in 1993-94. One of Psychologys greatest strengths lies in its collection of academic periodicals. The monograph collection is adequate to support all undergraduate and most postgraduate coursework, as well as the more advanced independent study needs.

13.7 Social Work and Social Policy

13.7.1 Purpose of the collection

The subject areas collected support teaching and research in Social Work and Social Policy. Titles purchased for these areas are also used by readers from many other schools (see3.1).

13.7.2 Primary user groups served

The School of Social Work and Social Policy offers courses leading to a Bachelor of Social Work and to Graduate Certificates, Postgraduate Diplomas and course work Masters.

The School offers a range of postgraduate research programs leading to Masters degrees by research or to a PhD degree - programs that encourage professionals to pursue innovative and original ideas and research questions. Themes in research work include:

• Contemporary human services and social policy
• Social inclusion and social exclusion
• Ageing
• Children and families

13.7.3 Description of the collection

The collection supports work in social work, social planning, family studies, gender studies, class and stratification, urban and regional sociology, cultural studies, policy analysis, crime and deviancy, race, ethnicity and migration, ethnomethodology and conservation analysis, work and occupational studies. The strengths of the collection include:

• The academic periodicals devoted to the social sciences in general;
• Australian publications - academic publications and data sets.

Australian material includes all Commonwealth parliamentary papers and other Australian Government Publishing Service publications, and the publications of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, including the 1986, 1991 and 1996 censuses on CD-ROM. Morgan gallup pools are held, but few of the expensive and more detailed or customized social profiles oriented to market or consumer analysis. Much popular Australian culture is represented in newspaper holdings, but most of the recent more avowedly popular, media (e.g. newsstall women’s magazines, equivalent TV shows) are not held.

A very great amount of detailed social analysis of overseas countries, particularly U.S.A., is included in the periodicals held, but relatively few overseas government policy documents are now collected. Assessments of the collection set out below have often been lowered because of the relative lack of detailed monographs discussing social conditions outside Australia.

Bibliographical tools most used include Social Work Abstracts, Australian Family database, ATSIRom, Sociofile, Australian public affairs information service, Web of Science, Social sciences index and Criminology, penology, and police science abstracts.

Social psychology is one of the stronger areas for titles on theory and methodology.

Collecting on crime and deviance focuses on the social environment and social work with individuals rather than on techniques of crime detection.

The Law Library holds the interrelated continuing sets of statutes, regulations, law reports, and law textbooks, which many of the courses mentioned above touch on. Some administrative manuals in social security and the like are held in other collections mentioned, particularly the Social Sciences and Humanities Library.

13.7.4 Interdisciplinary relationships

All teaching and research areas with some social orientation are likely to share some of these collections. Students of the politics of class and other social groups, and of public opinion, find much material useful. Psychologists and community or urban planners also use this broad subject area for the social dimensions for their research. Students and staff within the Social Work area also use materials in other branches - particularly the hospital libraries.

13.7.5 Scope of current collecting

1. Languages collected

The bulk of the collection is in English, though no languages are excluded. Writings by foreign authors of great standing in social theory are collected by preference in English translation, but also in the original language if this is taught in The University of Queensland, and if such editions are thought likely to be called on in research.

2. Geographical areas collected

There is a strong emphasis on maintaining depth in Australian material, and also of providing multiple copies on Australian subject matter for undergraduate use. Other geographical emphases are on countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (for generalized comparison rather than specialized study country by country); South-East Asis, including Hong Kong; developing countries generally.

3. Chronological periods collected

No chronological period is excluded.

4. Types (forms) of materials collected

No particular form of material is excluded. The emphasis is on journal and monograph literature. Australian Government publications also form an important part of the collection.

Some publications (back runs of serials, primary sources or materials not available in other forms) are purchased in microform.

The audio-visual collection in this subject area is strongest in video and sound recordings for women’s studies, including related topics such as domestic violence. Multiculturalism, and social work related to drug users, suicides, and those with disabilities, are examples of other topics covered.

5. Publication dates

The emphasis is on collecting recent publications, although important primary source materials are collected regardless of publication date.

6. Special considerations

Important Australian material is also held in the Fryer Library.

7. Conspectus

In the great majority of these subject lines, Australian material is held at level 3b or 4 : this comment is not repeated for each line. The principal deficiencies in Australian material are titles particularly relevant to states other than Queensland, such as state government publications.

13.8 Criminology

13.8.1 Purpose of the collection

The library collects in the field of Criminology primarily to support the teaching research and community needs of the Criminology section of the School of Social Science.

Resources in this area have cross disciplinary relevance across other schools (Psychology, Law) and Faculties.

13.8.2 Primary user groups served

At the Undergraduate level Criminology can be studied as a single plan/plans in the Bachelor of Arts; as elective courses in the Bachelor of Social Science or as part of other degrees offered by UQ. At the Postgraduate level a Criminology plan is part of the Masters of Social Science.

The Criminology Plan reflects the comprehensive exploration of the area from the sociological perspective. This means that crime and responses to crime, such as policing and the law are understood to be shaped by social values, institutions and processes.

Teaching areas include:

Crime and justice; The Criminal Justice system; Youth crime and justice; Crime prevention; Crime, race and gender; Crime, drugs and justice.

Research interests of Academic, Research and Postgraduate level covers this same wide spectrum of important contemporary issues with the addition of advanced level theoretical and methodological subjects.

Some current research projects are:

Comparing western nations in the extent of punitive crime control developments 1970-2000

Sibling Study (Young people and the Criminal Justice system)

13.8.3 Description of existing collection

The Library has responded well to this new and emerging UQ program area with print resources consisting of books, reference material and journals being significantly enhanced by access to many electronic bibliographic databases and e-resources.

The library subscribes to the major Australian criminology indexing service CINCH (Informit Online) and for international content, databases such as Sociological Abstracts, Infotrac, Sage Fulltext collections including Criminology, ISI Web of Knowledge, and National Criminal Justice Reference service provide some good examples of extensive journal indexing coverage. Also, the Australian Bureau of Statistics database AusStats provides significant access to criminology data.

Increasingly Web sources such as Web sites eg. Australian Institute of Criminology, Crime and Misconduct Commission, Criminology Research Council, WebLaw and SOSIG: Criminology are listed and linked from the Library catalogue. Resource guides are also produced to link users to relevant information.

13.8.4 Interdisciplinary relationships

All teaching and research areas with some social orientation are likely to draw on the general social science titles classified at H, for theory, methodology and empirical data and its subdivisions – HM, HQ, HS, HT, HV and also the Law area KU, KTA.

Scope of current collecting

1. Languages collected

The bulk of the collection is in English, though no languages are excluded.

2. Geographical areas collected

No Geographical areas excluded, however there is a strong emphasis on maintaining depth in Australian material.

3. Chronological periods collected

No chronological periods are specifically excluded.

4. Types (formats) of material collected

No types of material are excluded. However at present the emphasis is on journal and monograph literature.

5. Publication dates

The emphasis is on collecting recent publications, however older materials will be purchased to support teaching and research.

6. Conspectus

Conspectus(1993-94) predates this emerging discipline area for UQ.