Special Collections guide
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- Djorra Djagamirri
- East Timor
- Theses
Background/History
The Special Collections consists of several collections, the Rare book collection, the Restricted Collection, Theses, the Djorra Djagamirri Collection and the East Timor Collection
Materials are for use in the library only
- Items are listed on the catalogue
- Items in the Special Collection will have the prefix SC as part of the call number.
- Items can be requested online or by filling in the request form at the Loans Desk at Casuarina Campus Library.
- Items are retrieved twice a day and held at the loans desk.
- Located on level 3 of Casuarina Library
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Djorra Djagamirri - Collection on Northern Australia and Eastern Indonesia
Collection name: 'Djorra' Djagamirri', ( Yolngu-Matha language of North East Arnhem Land) meaning 'to care for books'
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The Charles Darwin University Library has established a collection of published and unpublished materials dealing with Northern Australia and contiguous maritime and land areas.
It is a broad inter-disciplinary collection reflecting the University's wide interest in:
- anthropology
- history
- geography
- health
- Indigenous studies
- language
The region covered by the collection comprises the Northern Australian coastline from Broome to Thursday Island, the Northern Territory and contiguous land and maritime areas including Christmas and Cocos Islands, the eastern provinces of Indonesia from Lombok to Irian Jaya, and the Arafura and Timor Seas. Contact between the peoples, ecosystems and geologies of the region is central.
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East Timor
The core of the collection consists of materials published in Portuguese during the Salazarist dictatorship from 1926 to 1974. Economic, anthropological, missionary, administrative and military publications form the great bulk of the collection, including a large number of official publications and offprints from journals.
There are works on the great period of Portuguese discovery, navigation and conquest, mainly published during the period 1926 - 1974 and focussing on the Portuguese role in Southeast Asia. And there are some books on parts of Southeast Asia, the Pacific and Australasia, usually areas close to Timor or in some way related to the island. A fair number of publications in this latter category are in English and French.
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Theses
Theses submitted for the award of Masters (research), PhD and higher doctorates completed at CDU.
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