Archive for January, 2011

Efficiency gains with new scanner

In 2010 the National Library acquired a large format roller scanner. The scanner, a Colortrac Gx+ T42 series, is situated in the Maps Branch and the equipment has been a boon to Digitisation and Photography staff. The scanner has high resolution wide format scan capabilities in a variety of formats including TIFF, JPEG and PDF, [...]

Cataloguing the Eugene Goossens collection of music scores

In late 2009, the National Library acquired the Eugene Goossens collection of music scores as part of the Symphony Australia collection. Some of the music in the Eugene Goossens collection was obviously owned by Eugene Goossens, notated with “EG” and a running number, and had been incorporated into a larger batch of material formerly owned [...]