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ISSN 1039-3498 | no. 54| December 2001
New Look Pictures Catalogue
If you are looking for items in the Librarys Pictorial Collection you can now search more easily with the new look Catalogue. On 22 October the Pictures Catalogue was merged with the Images1 database. Now, in a single catalogue, you can see all the catalogue records for Pictorial items and the images of those items that have been digitised.
The Pictures Catalogue is graced by a new graphic design. The home page shows six small images as a taste of the Pictorial Collection. One of them is a portrait by Bryan Kneale of Rex Nan Kivell, whose collection forms the core of the Librarys Collection of paintings and objects.
The Pictures Catalogue does more than Images1. It contains links directly from the bibliographic records and images to an order form. If you select the order option, the bibliographic details of the item you have selected will be automatically entered on the order form. No longer will you need to write in accession numbers or any of those other strange numbers that dangle off Pictorial catalogue records.
At present you have to print the order form and fax or mail it to the Pictorial Section, but we are planning to introduce online ordering, with security for your credit card details, next year.
Another new feature of the Pictures Catalogue is the ability to move from a collection-level record, such as Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition, 19971998 to each of the records within the collection, and back again, with a click of the mouse.
Meanwhile the content of the Pictures Catalogue is getting better all
the time. In July the Library accelerated its digitisation and Pictorial
cataloguing programs. There are now over 30 000 digitised images and these
are growing at around 10 000 a year. Some recent additions include the
David Elliot Collection of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century
postcards of Australian stage stars, including the wonderfully named Miss
Tittell Brune, and Geoff Pryors cartoons of Australian life and
politics in the 1980s. Soon to be loaded will be thousands of photographs
of the Sydney Olympics, forming what we think will be the largest online,
publicly accessible photo archive of the Olympics in the world.
Linda Groom
Above, left: Frederick
Shipman Entreprises Ltd present Annette Kellermann 'The Perfect Woman'
and a company of 1000 players in Neptune's Daughter the film
masterpiece of the world [between 1890 ad 1920]
1 postcard: b&w; 12.7 x 8.5 cm.
in David Elliot Theatrical Postcard Collection
nla.pic-an22948275
[found at
www.nla.gov.au/nla.pic/an/000/022/948/275/nla.pic-an000022948275-v.jpg]
Please address any comments and enquiries to The Editor, Gateways: dthomas@nla.gov.au