Projects
Current
- Digital Services Project
- The Library's key strategy for ensuring effective management of its digital collections.
- National Plan for Australian Newspapers (NPLAN)
- A cooperative initiative established by the Council of Australian State Libraries (CASL) involving all State and Territory Libraries and coordinated by the National Library of Australia.
- People Australia
- The National Library of Australia is creating an online resource discovery service called People Australia. The service will allow users to access information about significant Australian people and organisations as well as related biographical and contextual information.
- Subject Suggester Tool
- A project by the Collections Management Division of the National Library to investigate the feasibility of developing a subject suggester tool for use in cataloguing.
- X.500/LDAP Directory Services for interlibrary Loan
- A project to develop an X.500 version of the Library's Interlibrary Resource Sharing Directory using an information model developed by the Interlibrary Loan Protocol Implementors Group (IPIG).
Completed
- ARROW
- The National Library has developed the resource discovery service for the ARROW project.
- Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project
- A collaborative project between the University of Sydney Library, the State Library of New South Wales, the National Library of Australia and Monash University Library to digitise from microfilm a range of Australian serials and fiction of the period 1840-1845.
- Asian Accounts of Australia: Change, Comparison, and Analysis
- A Joint project between the Australian National University and the National Library of Australia under the auspices of the Australian Research Council Strategic Partnerships with Industry Research and Training Scheme.
- Barton Project
- The Papers of Sir Edmund Barton web site was the outcome of the Library's first project to digitise an entire manuscript collection.
- Bringing them Home Oral History Project
- The collected and preserved the stories of Indigenous people and others, such as missionaries, police and administrators involved in or affected by the process of child removals.
- Endeavour: Captain Cooks Journal 1768 71; CD-ROM
- This project involved the digitisation of James Cooks original journal together with images and video footage. The resulting CD-ROM was jointly published by the National Library and the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney.
- Multicultural Documentary Heritage Project
- Aimed at assisting culturally and linguistically diverse community organisations (sometimes called ethnic organisations) to look after their documentary records, letters, diaries, photographs, electronic files and other unpublished material.
- MusicAustralia
- A web-based music service that provides integrated access to Australian music resources and information to all Australians and other interested users.
- Rare Maps Digitisation Project
- A project to trial the digitisation of rare maps from the Library's collections completed at the end of 1998.
- South Seas Project
- South Seas is a research venture conceived and undertaken by Paul Turnbull and Chris Blackall with the support of the National Library of Australia and Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, at the Australian National University.
- Review of Reference Services 1988
- A review undertaken in 1988 of the reference services the Library offers through its reading rooms as well as through telephone and electronic inquiry services.
- South Asia: Renovating the National Collection 1995
- A collaborative project headed by the Curtin University of Technology to renovate the national South Asian collection by identifying unlisted South Asian materials in Australia and initiating an acquisitions program to increase the amount of South Asian material in the National Collection.
- Trial Using Scanners for Data Input in Cataloguing
- A project by the Collections Management Division of the National Library to investigate using hand-held scanners to input data for cataloguing purpose.
