Other material on Don Bradman in Library collections

There is considerable material by and about Don Bradman, other than that in The Bradman Collection, held in the State Library, and in other libraries around Australia.

Search the Library's catalogues for material relating to Don Bradman

Material in The State Library of South Australia is listed in three databases which collectively form the online catalogue Webpac. Each database offers a number of search options such as author, title, keyword, or a subject such on Bradman or cricket in general.

After you have done your search, you can limit the results of this search to material in a particular format or by date of publication or by language. To limit by format click on the Limit option, then click on Material Type and select the format from the pull down menu, eg spoken sound.

State Library of SA catalogues and databases

Catalogue

Search strategy

Some formats you can limit by

Library catalogue

  • published material

  • SA and non SA

  • print and audiovisual

Don Bradman as author

Don Bradman as subject

Book, pamphlet, map, newspaper, periodical, spoken sound, music sound, music score, videorecording, artwork object/realia, game, posters, model, kit, toy, literacy/ESL computer file, website

Archival catalogue

  • unpublished material eg letters, company records

  • print and audiovisual

  • SA only

Don Bradman as subject

Manuscript, artwork, craftwork, photograph, spoken sound, music sound, motion picture, videorecording, militaria, fabric, realia, slide

South Australiana database

  • published and unpublished material

  • focus on SA

  • pictorial/images

  • references to articles

Don Bradman as subject

Images only or articles only.

Newspaper, magazine, book, ephemera, menu, wine label, theatre program, calendar

Material held by the Library relating to Don Bradman as at 1997 is listed in the pamphlet A guide to archival and published sources relating to Sir Donald Bradman held in the State Library of South Australia compiled by Prue McDonald and Neil Thomas (Adelaide, Libraries Board of SA, 1997). It includes a select list of articles from The Advertiser newspaper 1932-1949 and 1986-1997. This guide is held in the Library and is available for purchase from the Bradman exhibition shop.

Some material by or about Don Bradman in the State Library is on public access. Other material is in storage areas as indicated by the message: ëIf status is request item or heritage store, click here to submit request'. See Using the library for details on requesting material from storage.

Somerville Reading Room

Some material in The Bradman Collection can only be viewed in the Somerville Reading Room in the State Library. This includes:

Requests to view this material can be made in person at the reference service point, or by telephone (08) 8207 7250 South Australian country callers 1800 182013 or via email info@slsa.sa.gov.au or via the Library's website menu option Ask Us.

A reader's ticket is required to access the Somerville Reading Room and is obtained at the reference service point on presentation of appropriate identification. Opening hours for the Somerville Reading Room are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 9.30am to 8.00pm, Thursday 9.30 to 6.00 pm, and weekends from 12.00 noon to 5.00pm (closed on public holidays).

Material held in other libraries around Australia

Most of the major libraries in Australia have searchable online catalogues, and the State Library's website provides access to these under Other libraries and archives.

As well, all the state and tertiary libraries, the public libraries and some specialist libraries are part of a national cataloguing network coordinated in Australia by the National Library of Australia. This national bibliographic database is called Kinetica and although it is not publicly searchable, any of the contributing libraries can search it on your behalf. As well as published material held in the participating libraries, Kinetica also provides access to material published in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States not held in Australian libraries.

Some of the material in state or national libraries is held in preservation collections, and can only be used in that library. However, other material can be requested via your own library as part of the international Document Delivery network, and a loan or a copy will be supplied to your library. There is a standard fee structure in Australia of AUD $13.20 for a loan of a book or a photocopy of an article or item up to 30 pages.

Sound recordings and moving images in the National Film and Sound Archive collection

The National Film and Sound Archive, is a Commonwealth government organisation that collects and preserves Australia's moving images and sound recordings from the first film images of our young country to modern classics. The National Film and Sound Archive holds quite a lot of footage on Don Bradman, including Movietone News segments. There is a National Film and Sound Archive Access Centre in each capital city in Australia, where videotape copies of much of the material in the National Film and Sound Archive's collections can be viewed. The State Library of South Australia is the Access Centre for South Australia. You can search the National Film and Sound Archive's collection on the website for material on Don Bradman or cricket or other topics, and then contact the State Library's audiovisual team through the Library's telephone service (08) 8207 7250 or email the Library to make a request to view material in Adelaide in the Somerville Reading Room in the State Library.

Newspaper and periodical articles

There are a number of databases which can help locate articles written about Don Bradman in newspapers and periodicals. Three of the Library's source sheets outline these databases and provide links to those which are web-based:

Newspapers: indexes and databases includes a link to Newstext which is a web-based service enabling full-text searching of News Limited's South Australian and interstate newspapers from around 1986 including The Advertiser. You can search Newstext without charge and will be able to view a list of titles of articles, dates and page numbers of the newspaper as well as a summary of the article. If you want to view the full text of the article you can do this online, but you will need to quote a credit card, since this is a fee-based service. The cost as at 2001 is a minimum charge of $10 in Australian dollars for ten articles.

The Library has other indexes to The Advertiser 1932-1965 as well as other printed indexes to material in newspapers, all of which need to be accessed in the Library.

The Library's South Australiana database has references to articles from selected South Australian published material held in the Library. A subject search for Bradman Don takes you into a list of subject headings and subdivisions. You can then Limit this search by the Category name: Articles only.