Project Brief | Cataloguing guidelines
The National Library sent staff photographer Loui Seselja and a captioning assistant to attended six days of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, and to several related events in Sydney and Canberra. Subjects covered by Loui Seselja were:
The collection consists of 2,437 negatives and transparencies. A selection of negatives were individually catalogued and digitised. All digitisation was from original collection material.
Since most professionally taken photographs of the Olympics are not in the public domain, this collection of over 2,400 images will be of particular benefit to researchers. As the Olympic Games recur every 4 years, we can expect ongoing interest to rise in the lead-up to each subsequent staging of the Games.
There is a collection level entry for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games on the Librarys catalogue and Kinetica, with the AMICUS number 22965021. The collection has been arranged into a hierarchy of 9 sub-collections with the AMICUS numbers: an23135913, an23135882, an23121914, an23113162, an23113142, an22965251, an23113102, an23113098 and an22965155. A number of the sub-collections listed above have further sub collections, which can be located on the MARC record in Kinetica.
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The collection is in good condition, well housed and will not need treatment by Preservation services.
The National Library holds copyright for this material.
No additional investments would be required from an IT perspective scanning devices in the Digitisation Project work are could be employed. The digital images will be available as part of the Library's digital collections and managed within the Digital Collections Manager (DCM). Delivery to users will be via the Pictures Catalogue and PictureAustralia service.
This collection was absorbed within the 2002-2003 financial year digitisation work plan to meet the established targets.
The Sydney 2000 Olympic Games pictorial collection was created as part of a Library-wide project to document the Games. Also collected were books, journals, newsletters, kits, posters and ephemera. The Pictures Branch of the National Library has also collected the work of a number of free-lance photographers who documented the Games.
A wide variety of Internet sites relating to the Olympics and Paralympics have also been archived in the PANDORA Archive. Internet sites are accessible through two collective entry pages in the PANDORA Archive: Olympic Games-Sydney 2000-Australian Internet Sites and Paralympic Games-Sydney 2000-Australian Internet Sites.
The National Librarys 2000 Olympic Games collection also complements the State Library of Victorias 1956 Melbourne Olympics site.
See also the Sydney 2000 Paralympics digitisation project.
Digitisation of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games collection was completed by July 2002.
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