Digitisation | National Library of Australia (NLA)

Two women standing behind a trolley with books on it in the Library stacks.

2022 Asia Study Grants recipients Ms Younghye Whitney and Dr Mei-Fen Kuo.

With your support, a new generation of thinkers can use our collections to create important and transformative works.

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A person holds a tablet displaying an illustration of a bird on Trove. The background shows the Library's soft seating and wooden furniture.

By donating to digitise our physical collections, you can help make the treasures of the National Library freely available to everyone, all the time.

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A National Library of Australia archival cart with labeled special collections boxes, placed in a reading room beside wooden tables and yellow seating.

Improve access to our collections

Help make the National Union of Australian University Students and Australian Union of Students collections accessible to more people.

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Harold Cazneaux's first camera, 1904, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-141166704

Harold Cazneaux (1878–1953) was perhaps Australia's best-known photographer of the early twentieth century. He purchased this camera in 1904, shortly after moving from Adelaide to Sydney, and made photographs of Sydney's streets and waterways.

In 1909 he became the first Australian photographer to exhibit his works in a solo show.

Cazneaux was a master of the pictorialist style of photography, using soft focus to capture scenes that were - and remain - familiar to many Australians in a new light. He was able to find a timeless, extraordinary beauty in the everyday.

Cazneaux collection

A large collection of glass negatives, papers and photographs dating mostly from 1904 to 1940 depicting many aspects of Australian life and architecture

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People standing holding colourful corflutes/posters from the 2013 election

Corflutes donated from the 2013 election, with NLA staff members

Thank you for bringing Australian democracy to life

We are grateful to our donors who generously gave over $320,000 to help make our election ephemera collection available to the world on Trove. Your support will allow us to share the vivid story of our Australian democracy.

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Corflutes donated from the 2013 election, with NLA staff members

The National Library of Australia seeks help to digitise and share the story of democracy down under

The National Library of Australia is seeking community support to digitise its unique collection of election ephemera.

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A black and white aerial image of Charters Towers.

Charters Towers Replenishing Centre, 1952, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2909430463

Aerial photographs collection

Aerial photographs of Australia, the Australian Antarctic Territory and Papua New Guinea

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