National Library of Australia

Printed Music digitisation - progress so far

Selecting material for digitisation  

General selection criteria for the National Library’s digitisation program can be found in our Collection Digitisation Policy. The Library aims to digitise all Australian printed music in its collection. This includes printed music created by Australians, published in, performed in, or otherwise associated with, Australia.

Progress as of 30 June 2010

Approximately 30% of the National Library’s Australian Printed Music collection in scope for digitisation has been digitised. This amounts to 12 278 items, consisting of 107 752 images.

Examples of Printed Music items already digitised

Future digitisation plans

Selective digitisation of items in the Music collection will continue to be undertaken for inclusion in the Library’s forthcoming Treasures Gallery. Out of copyright Australian printed music will continue to be systematically digitised.

Some printed music which is still in copyright may be digitised for the purposes of preservation or access for research and study, where there are no commercially available editions. Some composers and publishers provided permission for digitisation.  

More Music

Other online resources

Curator's Choice

  • 2/1st Australian Army Topographic Survey Company, Kokoda, New Guinea 1944
    2/1st Australian Army Topographic Survey Company, Kokoda, New Guinea 1944

This 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.