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Australian Home Companion and Band of Hope journal

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 [...]

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, [...]

Life in the Hill End goldfields 1872 and a mystery to solve

The Library recently digitised the Album of photographs of gold mining, buildings, residents and views at Hill End and environs, New South Wales, 1872-1873. This album is part of the B.O. Holtermann archive of Merlin and Bayliss photographic prints of New South Wales and Victoria. The album contains 550 albumin sepia toned photographs. As the [...]