In brief

NLA exhibition wins Canberra and Capital Region Tourism Award

The National Library of Australia (NLA) has won an award for its Mapping our World: Terra Incognita to Australia exhibition at the Canberra and Capital Region Tourism Awards, reports Spice. The exhibition, which was recognised in the Major Festivals and Events category, was held in summer of 2013-2014 and featured a selection of maps, atlases, globes and instruments from around the world, many of which were on display in the Southern Hemisphere for the first time.

NLA’s TROVE reaches 15 million pages of digitised newspapers

The National Library of Australia’s (NLA) TROVE database now contains 15 million pages of digitised newspapers, making it the world’s largest freely available collection, reports itWire. The Australian Newspaper Digitisation Project began in 2008 and now offers digitised pages from around 800 newspapers and other periodicals published from 1803 to 2007. NLA director-general Anne-Marie Schwirtlich told itWire that reaching the 15-million-page milestone was ‘an outstanding achievement’. The 15-millionth page added to the online resource came from the 8 December 1917 edition of the St George Call, a paper published in the Kogarah district of Sydney.

Tags: nla

Category: Library news