You can now view more than 2300 books, journals and ephemera online, ranging from James Cook’s Voyage to the Pacific Ocean and John Gould's Birds of Australia to Dorothy Wall's Blinky Bill and C.J. Dennis’ A Book for Kids. Some rare works from the Library’s Asian Collections are also worth taking a look at, such as the early Korean work on Confucian ethics Samgang haengsil, or Tian fu xia fan zhao shu from the London Missionary Society Collection.
Browse through the Library's Australian or overseas digitised print collections to find other items of interest or view the selection below. To review our progress read Books and Serials digitisation - progress so far and Digitisation - overview.
The Australian Newspapers service provides free online access to selected out of copyright Australian newspapers dating from 1803 to 1954, including the Sydney Morning Herald. Millions of articles are available and are added to daily. The content can be searched by keyword or browsed by date, region or title. We encourage users to interact with the data by correcting the electronically translated text, which makes the searching better for everyone, and by adding tags and comments to articles.
The Library has commenced working on digitisation of the Australian Women’s Weekly. The project involves digitisation of the magazine from inception to when it changed frequency to monthly, i.e. from 10 June 1933 to 15 December 1982. The magazine will be scanned and processed through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The Library is developing systems to support the workflows and management of the digitised content and make the content available to the public via a search and delivery interface based on the Australian Newspapers service. The project will function as a test-bed to inform the development of an ongoing journal and book digitisation program for the Library in the future.
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Waerachtich verhael vande Tijdinghen gecomen uit de Oost-Indien...
Page [K] from Amusing alphabet : le jardin d'acclimatation [1863-65?]
Old More's iron-glyphicks, or, Snap metamorphosed... 1835
John Gould Plate 1 from The mammals of Australia 1863
Charles Darwin page 38 from On the origin of species... 1859
Page from Volume 1 of Histoire naturelle des quadrupedes 1825
Score card on beige silk of England v. Australia test match 1882
Norman Lindsay page 1 from The Magic Pudding 1918
J.G. McLaren Referendum, 1916 (military service)
George Bennett Notes on ...
the ornithorhynchus paradoxus 1835
Hartmann Schedel
The Expulsion from Paradise from
the Nuremburg Chronicle 1493
John Gould The Sooty Opossum
from The mammals of Australia 1863
Eat healthy tucker - help stop sickness Health Department of Western Australia
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Tracey's Speedway Maribyrnong Saturday November 30th, 1957 Motor cycle racing 1950s
Page 8 from Ballets Russes Australasian tours, 1936-1940 Magazine program
Hogmanay Dinner Thursday December 31st, 1914 Programs and invitations
Referenda, Liquor Ephemera material
Page from National Library of Australia Programs and invitations
Jaime Murcia. Five teenagers wearing street fashion at Bridge Street Mall, Ballarat, Victoria 2009. Courtesy of Jaime MurciaDoes body language reflect a particular time in history? This new acquisition suggests it does. Compared to a group shot from, say, the early 20th century, we find that arm-crossing today is gender neutral but stance continues to distinguish males from females.