A lot of people on the Internet don?t want to go to a library and look up a book, so I?m not trying to force anyone to do anything. But part of my work for the Adoption Bibliography Center gives me access to citations containing the name Parramatta. The words within parentheses are added entries---a term familiar to librarians.

Adoption the Common Thread: Personal Stories of Adoption Written by Group Members of Parramatta/Holroyd Family Support Inc. [Pendle Hill, N.S.W.]: Parramatta/Holroyd Family Support, 2000. 208.p. : illus. (Adoptees--Australia--Family relationships) (Adoptive parents--Australia--Attitudes) (Birthmothers--Australia--Attitudes) (Parramatta-Holroyd Family Support Group)

KEEN, S. The Burnside Homes for Children: An Overview of Their History, 1911-1980. in> Australian Social Work, volume 48, no. 1 (Mar. 1995) p. 30-36. Canberra: Australian Assn. of Social Workers. Author's address: School of Social Science and Policy, Univ. of New South Wales. Blurb: ?This study describes the background to the establishment of Burnside at North Parramatta, the role played by Sir James Burns . . . [and] the impact of the Second World War when the Homes were evacuated to the Blue Mountains.??abstract.

PRIOR, Percy B. Child Welfare Work in Australia. in> Homiletic Review, vol. 92 (Oct. 1926) p. 281-82. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Co. Blurb: ?Girls' welfare home in Parramatta.??Intl. Index to Pers. Parramatta is located 13 miles WNW of Sydney. (Child welfare? Australia) (Girls, Delinquent). Also: NEW SOUTH Wales. Child Welfare Advisory Council. Delinquency Committee. A Report on the Girls' Industrial School, Parramatta, N.S.W.: A Study in the Principles and Practices of Child Welfare Administration, Made by the Delinquency Committee of the Child Welfare Advisory Council, N.S.W. [Melbourne]: Melbourne Univ. Press, 1945. __ p. Pub. for the Australian Council for Educational Research. (Australian Council for Educational Research)

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