A portrait of Gordon George McCrae is the latest addition to be welcomed in to the national collection at the Library. The Preservation Services unit collaborated with their colleagues in the Pictures and Manuscripts team in their assessment of this new acquisition by renowned Australian artist, Tom Roberts. The portrait is a beautiful example of [...]
Archive for August, 2011
Who’d have thought! Mills and Boon at the National Library of Australia
August 29, 2011 by
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The National Library has a large collection of romance novels published in Australia, most notably by Mills and Boon. Since the 1990s this literary genre has been recognized by academia for its cultural significance with a number of books and scholarly articles written on this subject. Legal Deposit legislation gives the Library responsibility for collecting [...]
Australian Home Companion and Band of Hope journal
August 23, 2011 by
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In June 2011, the Digitisation and Photography Branch (DAP) undertook a new type of project, the capture of the Australian home companion and Band of hope, a mid 19th century journal. What made this different was that it was our first attempt at in-house journal digitisation which involved the capture of thousands rather than hundreds [...]
