The Islamic and Middle Eastern (IME) collection includes resources in printed monographs, journals, audio and visual materials, and electronic databases plus related items for study and research about the Islamic World and the Middle East. The IME unit is responsible for acquiring these research materials from around the world in all major languages and processing them for availability and borrowing.
The collection comes from a long standing series of courses on the contemporary Middle East, along with transfers of materials from the renowned collection of the Hoover Institution Library on the Middle East collected over some 70 years. Since the merger of the two collections, the scope has grown with the establishment of endowed programs in Islamic Studies, Iranian Studies, and a newly added research center on the contemporary Middle East at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Stanford University Libraries (SUL/AIR) archive some Persian web logs, as a joint project with the Library of Congress Web Archives project (LCWA)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/lcwa/html/lcwa-home.html
TIMESTAMPS
The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20091026083827/http://apo.org.au/environment-planning
26 October 2009The key objective of the study is to outline and evaluate the operation and effectiveness of tenant support programs and other tenancy support measures in assisting at-risk Indigenous tenants.
19 October 2009Despite the bold language used by the Minister for Climate Change, modelling conducted by the Treasury makes clear that there will be no real transformation of the coal-fired power generation industry in Australia until at least 2033.
19 October 2009This paper summarises the key accounting provisions of the Kyoto Protocol and presents Australia's decisions with respect to the electives, and its ensuing obligations under the Kyoto Protocol treaty.
14 October 2009There is a need for wide-ranging reforms and a reduction in compliance costs faced by the not-for-profit sector, according to this draft research report.
13 October 2009Examining Australian public opinion on a broad range of foreign policy issues including the priority given to action on climate change, public attitudes towards relations with the US and China, foreign investment, asylum seekers, how to deal with Iran and perceptions about nuclear threats.
09 October 2009This paper analyses data from the 2006 Census of Population and Housing for the NSW State Electoral Districts. Data was provided by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in relation to the State electoral boundaries as redistributed in 2007.
08 October 2009This paper presents a preliminary study on hazard modeling, estimation, and mapping of extreme wind gusts for consideration of buildings and infrastructure in Australia.
This report provides information on the provision of three types of Australian Government funded aged care packages: Community Aged Care Packages, Extended Aged Care at Home packages, and Extended Aged Care at Home Dementia packages.
22 October 2009If you want to find out what’s happening in Australia’s cities today, don’t go to the glossy planning documents, writes Peter Spearritt in Inside Story
12 October 2009This presentation explores prospects for partnership between government and industry on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, and how Australia could lead.
08 October 2009CSIRO has contributed to a new approach to help safeguard the world from dangerous levels of climate change and other global environmental threats through the setting of planetary boundaries.
13 October 2009This second biennial assessment of progress in implementation of the National Water Initiative records "significant achievements in water reform across Australia". It covers all states and territories, groundwater and surface water systems, and urban and rural areas.
16 October 2009More than any other urban area in Australia, the Block in Sydney's inner-city suburb of Redfern, has become a meeting place and, some say, spiritual home for city-dwelling
08 October 2009In this vodcast, we follow a team of CSIRO scientists as they journey through the Burrup Peninsula in Western Australia examining ancient Aboriginal rock art for any changes in colour, contrast or chemical composition possibly brought on from emissions from local industry.
08 October 2009The project seeks to determine the factors influencing the take up of reverse mortgage products and services within the context of overall demand.
05 October 2009This site provides critical information on historical, recent and likely future water availability in a part of Australia that is renowned for its high rainfall, pristine tropical environments and relatively low development.
05 October 2009ArtsYakka is an online resource of practical tools and templates, information and ideas to take some of the 'hard yakka' out of developing community arts.
Australian history is full of disasters. Some are natural but many more are human-made, results of individual or collective stupidity, reckless decisions, or greed.
Mission H2o, an online game themed around water conservation and developed by Swinburne University students and staff, has received two prestigious design awards.
The Climate Action Network Australia has prepared seven summary sheets to provide a clear track through the climate negotiations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Commentary
Trouble in the city
A race to the bottom
Shortchanging the "greatest moral challenge"