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Shauna Hicks
History Enterprises
Are You Making The Most of TROVE?
Shauna Hicks
www.shaunahicks.com.au
Twitter: HicksShauna
www.shaunahicks.com.au/shhe-genie-rambles
http://diaryofanaustraliangenealogist.blogspot.com
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www.nla.gov.au/guides
www.nla.gov.au/our-services/research-guides
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http://catalogue.nla.gov.au
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https://trove.nla.gov.au/userProfile
Ways to Discover the Treasures
E-Resources
Individual catalogues
TROVE (inc digitised newspapers)
Picture Australia now in TROVE
Pandora (archived websites)
Australian Libraries (included in TROVE)
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E-Resources
Find indexes, databases & full text e-journals
Does not include Ancestry or FMP
Free
Register for a library card
Can also get an e-resources card from your
State Library too (may access different
databases/resources)
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www.nla.gov.au/app/eresources
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Under Comms & Media
Most under Genealogy but.......
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www.slq.qld.gov.au/find/articles
Picture Australia
Over 1.8 million images
From galleries, museums, archives, libraries
Across Australia and overseas
Free to search
Picture trails, slideshow trails (themes)
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www.pictureaustralia.org
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Pandora
Established 1996 by NLA
Now in collaboration with 9 other
organisations
To collect and provide long term access to
selected online publications and websites
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TROVE
National Library of Australia online portal Books, journals, magazines and articles
Pictures and photos
Australian digitised newspapers 1803-1954 & more
Diaries, letters and archives
Maps
Music, sound and video
Archived websites 1996 to now
About people and organisations
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Journals, Articles & Datasets
Journal articles
Book chapters
Reports
Reviews
Working papers
Conference items
Data sets
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http://research.nla.gov.au
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Digitised Newspapers 1803-1954 & More
Searching tips
Newspapers are digitised and OCR (optical
character recognition) is used for indexing
Text may be almost unintelligible
Text can be corrected by users, tagged, listed
Women’s Weekly 1932-1982
Adding digitised regional newspapers too
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http://trove.nla.gov.au/general/participating-in-digitised-newspapers-faq
Advanced Searching
Search a specific field, such as title or author
Limit to a particular format, such as books, journals or
videos
Limit to a certain date
Broaden or narrow your search
Search for a phrase
Search for an exact spelling
Find online resources you can access right now
Find items in your libraries
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Continually
being added to
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Citations & Copyright
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Conclusion
NLA has many wonderful treasures
Use TROVE but still use Picture Australia &
other library catalogues
Be creative in searching – remember OCR
has its limitations
Not everything is in the NLA
Enjoy finding your family details!
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