You can now view more than 3500 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.
Trove Digitised Newspapers and more 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 completed digitisation of the Australian Women’s Weekly. The project involved 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 was scanned and processed through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The Library has developed 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 of Trove Digitised Newspapers and more. The project outcomes included contribution to the development of an ongoing journal and book digitisation program for the Library in the future.
The wonderful kanguroo
[i.e. kangaroo] from Botany Bay 1794
Louis Le Nain
No. 24
Musees nationaux / Chalcographie du Louvre between
1608-1648
Advertising zoological card set 1889
J.A. Hemphill & Sons
Finest Australian roller flour, Haystack brand, Sydney [192-?]
To the public, the death of Captain James Cook 1780
Hires puzzle book of unnatural history ca. 1890
Page from 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
Publisher’s advertising for The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay 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 1863This Second World War topographic map of Kokoda shows the location of villages, tracks, a canoe route, seaplane bases and mission stations. Map images from the Library’s Digital Collection are interactive. Use the Zoom control to pan and examine details.