Timor-Leste conference proceedings documents the biennial conference hosted by Victoria University in co-operation with the National University of Timor Loro Sa’e (UNTL). 

Victoria University Library has significant holdings of books from or about Timor-Leste available in the main lending  collection, as well as some online journals (available to students and staff of Victoria University). There is also a wealth of Timor-Leste related information available via the internet, such as:

• National Library of Australia East Timor Collection
• Timor-Leste Government website
• Timor Archives
• United Nations: Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform: Timor-Leste
• East Timor Government Association
• East Timor & Indonesia Action Network​
• Timor-Leste Studies Association

Victoria University's strategic plan is explicit in its commitment to Timor-Leste where the University has had a long involvement and has continued to host the Honorary Consulate of Timor-Leste in Melbourne since before independence.  In 2011 VU consolidated its partnership with the National University of Timor-Leste, Universidade Nasional Timor Lorosa'e (UNTL) and the Dili Institute of Technology (DIT). Joint activities with UNTL, with whom we have had a partnership since 2005, include a biennial conference focusing on issues facing Timor Leste's development.

To support the VU strategic plan the Library formed the Timor-Leste Collection, beginning with an initial donation from the Oxfam Australia Library in March 2012. The Timor-Leste Collection was augmented in June 2012 with rare and research quality items from the Footscray Park Main Collection. The Timor-Leste Collection will be added to by donations from personal and organizational collections and is intended to chart the development of Timor-Leste as an independent nation. Of particular significance is the donation of Dr Helen Hill's research collection on Timor-Leste.

In 2014 - 2015 in collaboration with CHART, a digitisation project was completed to make available online the journals, Tapol and Timor Link. 

The Timor-Leste Collection will be added to by donations from personal and organisational collections and is intended to chart the development of Timor-Leste as an independent nation.

A selection of books from the Timor-Leste Collection

Below is a selection of titles written by Timor-Leste voices from the collection:

• Funu : the unfinished saga of East Timor / Jose Ramos-Horta ; preface by Noam Chomsky

• Refugee politics : Timorese in exile / by Justino Maria Aparicio Guterres

• A travesty of justice : Xanana's defence / Xanana Gusmao ; preface by Garth Nettheim

• The political economy of East Timor development / Joao Mariano de Sousa Saldanha

• The Indonesians teach us how to hate their violence but also how to resist : East Timor - 19 years of resistance / by Salustiano Freitas (electonic access)

• It's time to lead the way : Timorese people speak about exile, resistance and identity

• Devising a strategic plan for the development of East Timor : a framework for the future / by João Câncio C. Freitas (electronic access)

• Buibere : voice of East Timorese women volume 1 / compiled by Rebecca Winters

• The road to freedom : a collection of speeches, pastoral letters, and articles from 1997-2001 / by Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

• To resist is to win! : The autobiography of Xanana Gusmao with selected letters & speeches / edited by Sarah Niner

• Timor lives! : speeches of freedom and independence / [Xanana Gusmão]

• Buibere : voice of East Timorese women volume 1 / compiled by Rebecca Winters

• Voice of the teachers : profile of 11 East Timorese teachers and their schools / interviews were conducted, recorded and produced for this document by Kara Lynn Greenblott, a UNICEF consultant