Access historic Australian newspapers from 1803 to 1954, digitised as part of the Trove Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program from the National Library of Australia.

 Trove Newspapers

The Australian Dictionary of Biography features concise, informative and fascinating descriptions of the lives of significant and representative persons in Australian history.

 Australian Dictionary of Biography

Drug information from the State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) provides up to date information on alcohol and other drugs.

 Drug info - SLNSW

A single entry point for accessing all United Nations statistical information. Includes links to country data services. Covers a wide range of areas including agriculture, crime, education, employment, energy, environment, health, HIV/AIDS, human development, industry, information and communication technology, national accounts, population, refugees, tourism and trade.

Trove Australia searches books, newspapers, pictures, diaries, maps, music and websites to find the information you need.

 Trove Australia

This resource contains content from Encyclopedia Britannica, the world's premier English language encyclopedia.

 Britannica Library

Find My Past features records from the United Kingdom, Ireland, USA, Canada and Australia.

Northern Beaches Library members can access Find My Past, for free, from the public computers in each library branch. 

Ancestry Library Edition is a huge subscription database, similar to the popular Ancestry.com, which you can use to trace your ancestors. Searches over 4000 databases including Australian convict index, Australian electoral rolls, United Kingdom census records, British Army World War 1 pension records, United States census records and much more.

Northern Beaches Library members can access Ancestry.com, for free, from the public computers in each library branch.