You can now view more than 1700 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 National Library, in collaboration with the Australian State and Territory libraries, and with the support of the Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation has made available an exciting newservice which provides free online access to selected out of copyright Australian newspapers. The Australian Newspapers service is currently in beta testing phase but users can already search and browse over 2 million articles from over 200 000 newspaper pages dating from 1803 onwards, with more pages added daily. Access is provided to every article, advertisement and illustration on every newspaper page being digitised. See the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program for further details.
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 Digitisation Program system. 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.
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
Front cover from South Australian German Association Program 1886-1936
Some of the beauty spots at Townsville Promotional postcard
Item 1 from Menus - Hotels ephemera material
Trans Australian Airlines TAA Packing advice for women
Our Security is THREATENED Australian federal elections campaign ephemera
Page from Souvenir Australian Tour 1908 & 1909
Bessie Campbell, Banjo Queen scrapbook 1889-1918
'Yes' for Aborigines Poster 1967
Menzies Hotel Sydney handwritten menu 1920This image was recently identified as the only known vintage print of Roald Amundsen's expedition party honouring the Norwegian flag after arriving at the South Pole. Part of Tasmanian views, Edward Searle's album of photographs of Australia, Antarctica and the Pacific, 1911-1915.