General selection criteria for the National Library’s digitisation program can be found in our Collection Digitisation Policy.
The Library aims to digitise selected Maps collections, based on such factors as historical and/or cultural significance, uniqueness of the material, likely demand for the material. Copyright and preservation considerations are also taken into account.
8 856 items, consisting of 16 775 images, from the National Library’s Maps Collection have been digitised.
The map collections fully digitised are: Nan Kivell (860 items), Ferguson (915 items) and Tooley (1 643 items) collections. Good progress has been made on the Rare Maps collection, with 5 303 items already digitised.
A selection of Maps materials will continue to be systematically digitised. See Current priorities for more details on the 2009-10 digitisation program.
The Library's long term plan is to complete digitisation of the following categories of its map material:
This 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.