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Digital Image Acquisitions

June Orford (b. 1946)
Alpacas Before and After Shearing at Shanbrooke Alpaca Stud, Yea, Victoria, 2006
digital tiff photograph
Pictures Collection, nla.pic-vn3801321

This image is an example of the born-digital acquisitions that are now being taken into the National Library’s Pictures Collection. It was purchased from Melbourne photographer June Orford in early 2007 as part of a series of four images documenting the alpaca industry. A tiff file of 20 megabytes, it is ‘shelved’ in the Library’s Digital Collections Manager system. Digital images have a number of advantages from a collection management point of view—they do not, for instance, need to be ‘reshelved’ after use.

Linda Groom
Pictures Collection