Political Science, Criminology and Sociology
COLLECTION POLICY
2008
School of Political Science, Criminology and Sociology
http://www.pscs.unimelb.edu.au/
The School offers a wide range of courses and programs in areas including
criminology, international studies, political science, public and social policy, sociolegal studies and sociology.
Study & research areas
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Criminology
Forensic Psychology
International Politics
Politic Science
Public Policy & Management
Social Policy
Socio-legal Studies
Sociology
Target Users
Undergraduate students, postgraduate and higher degree coursework / research
students, and academic staff. [
Research areas
http://www.criminology.unimelb.edu.au/
http://www.politics.unimelb.edu.au/
http://www.sociology.unimelb.edu.au/
CO-OPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRES
The Centre for Public Policy
The Centre for Public Policy was established in 1995 to provide a forum for PostGraduate teaching, research, and informed discussion of issues relating to policy
design and evaluation, public sector economics and public sector management and
change.
The teaching programs, leading to Master of Public Policy and Post-Graduate Diploma
of Public Policy, are primarily intended for public and community sector leaders and
managers who wish to think deeply about policy issues, to challenge conventional
ideas about the processes of government and public sector management, and to
develop their own capacity for
high quality policy work and best practice management.
The Contemporary Europe Research Centre
The Contemporary Europe Research Centre was formally opened in October 1997.
CERC is made up of the following two Research Units:
 The Research Unit for Russian & Euro-Asian Studies - (formerly the Centre for
Russian and Euro-Asian Studies)
 The Research Unit for European Union Studies
Collection Statement
The Library undertakes to purchase all undergraduate prescribed texts and
recommended reading titles, and materials identified for Masters by coursework
programs. Research level materials are selected in conjunction with members of the
academic staff, and from recommendations from students and key library staff.
No specific formats are excluded from the collection. The types of sources used by
the student and researcher in Political Science, Criminology and Sociology are no
different than those used by any other scholar in the humanities; mainly
monographs and academic journals. Both are of equal importance. Specific ‘tools’
most commonly required include literary works and criticism, scholarly treatises (in
the original language and in translation), journal articles, conference papers, and CD
ROM and web-based resources, as well as abstracting and indexing sources. Library
material may be acquired in print form or acquired, or accessed, electronically.
There are currently approval plans set up for Political Science, Criminology and
Sociology; one for Australian publications and the other covering mainstream
publishers in the UK and North America.
Materials are acquired in all relevant languages; the main language being English. No
language is excluded from the collection
The collections relating to Political Science, Criminology and Sociology are housed in
three main collections in the University Library; the main collection of the Baillieu
Library, the Research Collections (the B and AB collections) in the Education
Resource Centre (the ERC) and the ERC’s main collection.
The Library also has an extensive microform collection which is housed in the Baillieu
Library. The collection covers both serials and monographs, many of which are of
importance for scholars doing historical research. Material is arranged by accession
number so cannot be browsed by subject. The microform collection does include the
complete collection of US Congressional Records.
Strengths of the Collection
Political Science
 Australian government publications
 Forensic psychology
 Political ideologies (especially ideology in general, socialism, communism,
liberalism, and nationalism)
 Politics of South Africa (especially 20th century politics)
 Politics of the USA (especially domestic and foreign policy)
 Sociology of the family
 Women’s studies
Criminology
 Forensic psychology
Special Collections
Microform Collection
There are number of items of value to Political Science and Sociology in microform.
Examples include: Congressional Hearings, 25th Congress- (1839-); the Australian
National University’s Department of Political Science’s Commonwealth Government of
Australia (and its former title, Government & Politics of Australia); AFPTI (American
Foreign Policy and Treaty Index); Djakarta Press Summary; Archives of the British
Conservative Party; Archives of the British Labour Party; Archives of the British
Liberal Party; The Library is also a depository library for documentation, in
microform, from the Commission of the European Communities
Government Documents
The Baillieu Library has a separate Government Documents Collection mainly
consisting of Australian and British parliamentary publications and state and
Commonwealth government gazettes. The collection takes up approximately 690
metres of shelving.
Archives
The University of Melbourne Archives Collection contains a number of collections of
value to Political Science. These include papers of individuals such as David McKenzie
Dow, a former journalist and diplomat, and of political figures including George
Swinburne and Sir Phillip Lynch. Records of organisations held include those of
various branches of the Australian Labor Party, the Trades Hall Council and
associated unions, the Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division), and the
Victorian Branch of the Communist Party of Australia. Some 100 trade unions are
now represented in the collections as well as professional, community, women’s,
peace and political organisations. Further information and a full list of the collections
is available on the Internet http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/archives/archgen.html
The Library also has a number of special collections, collectively housed in the
Special Collections Section of the Baillieu Library. These collections include an
extensive range of material, much of which is rare and/or of historical value.
The AX Collection is an historical collection of Australian material contains
approximately 2,000 volumes of material falling within Dewey 320s and 350s.
The BX Collection historical collection of non-Australian works published
before 1870 contains about 625 volumes falling within Dewey 320s and 350s, and a
further 65
volumes in the early 300s.
The McLaren Collection is another historical collection and includes
approximately
1,035 books and 330 pamphlet boxes on Australian politics.
Titles include The Official
Report of the National Australian
Convention Debates:
Sydney, 2nd March to 9th April 1891, published in Sydney by George Stephen
Chapman in 1891, and Thirty Years
of Colonial Government: From the Official
Papers of the Rt. Hon. Sir G.F. Bowen, edited
by S. Lane-Poole and published in
London by Longman in 1889. In addition there are
approximately 11 pamphlet
boxes of material on communism from 1914 to the 1970s.
War
The Rare Books Collection includes a collection of about 100 anti-Vietnam
broadsides.
The Communist Party of Australia Collection is a substantial collection of
pamphlets,
serials, monographs and newspapers. It came mainly from the
Victorian Branch of the
Communist Party of Australia when it was disbanded in
1990. It contains not only material about the CPA, but also on communist theory
and communist regimes around
metres of shelf space.
the world. The collection takes up about 160
The Goodwin Collection of Political Ephemera contains archival material
relating to
the Communist Party of Australia and to left-wing political groups in
the 1960s, 70s and 80s. It was collected by Joan Goodwin who was actively
involved in a wide range of political groups over five decades, from the 1940s to
1990s. It is housed in seven
archive boxes, two pamphlet boxes and one
newspaper case.
The Murray-Smith Collection consists of material dealing with Australian
politics, and the peace movement in particular, for the late 1940s and the 1950s.
During that period
Dr Stephen Murray-Smith was the National Organising
Secretary for the Australian Peace Council. Material includes books, pamphlets,
periodicals, correspondence and
presscuttings. Although Murray-Smith was the
founding editor of Overland, the collection does not contain any material relating to
Overland. The collection takes up six metres of
shelving.
The Bellinghausen-Natouralis Papers is a collection of papers of Vladimir
and
Rostislav Bellinghausen-Natouralis, great-grandsons of Captain F.F.
Bellinhausen, the
Antarctic explorer. It consists of correspondence, photographs,
prints and ephemera r
elating to Russians in Australia and amounts to four
archive boxes and two flat boxes.
The Reginald Byrne Papers is an archival collection of materials relating to
the
Australian Labor Party of New South Wales, between c.1914 and 1940. It
includes family
correspondence, minute books and proceedings, pamphlets and
handbills. Apart from
personal correspondence, the collection relates to the
Stanmore and Darlinghurst branches of the ALP, with an emphasis on the
conscription issue of 1914-18. It includes correspondence with W.A. Holman, Curtin,
Chifley, Hughes, Calwell and others.
The Ratzer Papers consists of correspondence, diaries, notebooks, travel
documents, cards and photographs is all in Russian. The bulk of it is made up of
the diaries of Anna Ratzer, from 1919 to 1926, during the Russian Civil War and
exile in Persia. She and
her husband emigrated to Australia in 1939. The
material is housed in two archive boxes.
The Richard Samuel Collection consists of books (in German), research
notes, manuscripts and correspondence. This collection documents the work of
Richard
Samuel, a former Professor of Germanic Studies at the University, in
the areas of Nazi
documents, German literature and German studies in Australia.
In 1947 Samuel came to
Australia from England where he had held academic
posts in the UK and translated Nazi
documents for the British Foreign Office.
The papers in this collection, written mainly in
German, are housed in 53 archive
boxes. The books, which take up 12 shelving bays,
are all literary works.
The A.F. Howells Papers collection of correspondence, manuscripts,
photographs, political handbills and ephemera amounts to two archive boxes of
material. Arthur
‘Bluey’ Howells (1907-1986) was a labour and peace movement
activist in Melbourne and Sydney in the 1920s and 30s. He visited Spain in 1938 and
served in the RAAF from 1941 to 1945. The material reflects these activities and
includes an unpublished
memoir of his time spent in the RAAF in Darwin.
The McPhee Gribble Archive of correspondence, manuscripts, production,
financial
and administrative records contains the records of the independent,
Australian feminist publishing house, McPhee Gribble, from 1975 until its takeover
by Penguin in 1989. It
takes up approximately 70 metres of shelves.
The Willis Collection comprises about 2,000 volumes of fiction and nonfiction relating
to homosexuality.
Identification of areas needing to be strengthened
Political Science
 Australian politics
 Democratization (particularly political theory and comparative politics in relation
to Europe)
 Gender studies in the Asia Pacific Region
 Globalization
 Indonesian politics (including government of Indonesia, political ideology, the
military, political parties, historical and cultural aspects of the authoritarian state,
the press, human rights, politics and religion/Islam and ethnicity, the political
economy, politics of economic aid, and Australian foreign relations with Indonesia)
 International and Australian political economy
 International politics (particularly of the Asia-Pacific Region)
 Local government (particularly comparative studies between Australia, Britain,
North America, and Europe)
 Political psychology
 Public policy
 Sexual politics (including gay and lesbian studies, and men’s studies)
 Social impact assessment (particularly more recent material)
 Sociology of health and illness
Criminology
 Crime Prevention
 Victimology (particularly publications from the smaller and non-commercial
publishers)
 Statistical Sources relating to Criminology (particularly from Australia, New
Zealand, Canada, and England and Wales)
 Drugs and Crime (particularly in relation to offenders who abuse drugs)
 Sentencing and Imprisonment (including annual reports from government
departments of justice, and statistics)
The Library continues to monitor changes in teaching and research needs and will
build in areas where there is little or no coverage.