SYDNEY 2000 Olympic Games Project

As with other events which impact on Australia and Australians, the National Library has a project to collect material which documents the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, Paralympics and associated events.

Olympic Gold Medal won by Fanny Durack in Stockholm in 1912

Types of Material Collected

Material collected by the National Library on the 2000 Sydney Olympics includes books, journals, newsletters, kits, posters, photographs and ephemera.

Material in the ephemera collection includes media information, postcards, fact sheets, brochures, programmes, letters, advertising and promotional material, leaflets, speeches and material printed from the Internet.

Material in the Pictorial Collection includes over 2000 photographs.

A wide variety of Internet sites relating to the Olympics and Paralympics have also been archived in the PANDORA Archive.






Olympic gold medal won by Miss Fanny Durack
at Stockholm, 1912. NLA Pictorial Collection.

How to Access Our Olympics Collection

Books, journals, newsletters, kits, posters, photographs and ephemera on the Olympics and which are held in the Library's collection can be found by searching our online catalogue. Searches can be made by author/title, or by subject headings such as Sydney Olympic Games or Paralympics.

Digitised copies of the photographs are available at http://www.nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an22965021

Olympics ephemera is indexed, housed in folders and is available through the Petherick Reading Room.

Internet sites are accessible through two collective entry pages in the PANDORA Archive: Olympic Games-Sydney 2000-Australian Internet Sites and Paralympic Games-Sydney 2000-Australian Internet Sites

Sources of Olympic Material

Sources of the material in our Collection include official bodies such as SOCOG and OCA; federal government departments, agencies and statutory authorities such as the Australian Tourist Commission; state projects, such as PROJECT 2000; sponsors, including the Team Millennium Olympic Partners; the Olympic Coin Program; environmental groups; business groups and centres; academic institutions; conferences; and the arts festivals; National Library staff and freelance photographers.

Other Olympics Collections

Further Information

For further information about the project or donations to the collection please contact:

Senior Librarian
Australian Deposit
National Library of Australia
CANBERRA ACT 2600
Telephone: (02) 6262 1312
Email: legaldep@nla.gov.au

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