Newspaper Digitisation Program News Today

NLA Digital collections: Statement of Preservation Intent Collection Area: Newspaper Digitisation The NLA newspaper Digitisation Program has captured content predominantly from pre-1954, microfilmed Australian Newspapers, and to date includes some Journals content (e.g. Australian Womens Weekly 1933-1982). In the near future Journals will mostly be digitised via the NLA Books and Journals Workflow. For the following outputs for the Newspaper Digitisation Program, Digitisation and Photography Bra...

A passion for vintage guitars coupled with an online advert has helped uncover an ingenious story about resilience, music and an Australian Prisoner of War. 

1. Purpose This statement outlines the National Library of Australia’s policy on preserving its digital collections, and collaborating with others to preserve digital information resources.

Digital Preservation Policy 4th Edition (2013) 1. Purpose This statement outlines the National Library of Australia’s policy on preserving its digital collections, and collaborating with others to preserve digital information resources. The Library’s digital preservation program forms part of its overarching Preservation Program which covers all formats of material the Library collects. This policy should be read in conjunction with the Library’s general Preservation Policy and other poli...

A key conclusion of the Conference was The task is too large for individual institutions to undertake in isolation and the resources required for successful and sustained archiving are too great to make duplication of effort a tenable position. Australia was an early implementer of web archiving. Since 1996 the National Library of Australia has been developing and maintaining PANDORA, an archive of selected, significant Australian web sites and web-based online publications6. The purpose of PAN...

25 November 2008 - 12:00 This paper was presented by Pam Gatenby at the IFLA International Newspaper Conference 2008 which was held at the National Library of Singapore. Background to newspaper publishing in Australia The history of newspapers in Australia reflects the history and development of the country, from its colonial origins to its current day membership of the global community. Australia’s history is short compared to most countries so it is not unreasonable for Australian libraries...