Trove: Let us work with you to tell your
story
VIRGINIA JAMES and
CATRIONA BRYCE
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Trove is…
• National Library’s discovery service about Australia
and for Australians
• Almost 2000 organisations and over 300 million items
• Not just digitised newspapers
• Not just libraries! (National Museum of Australia,
research repositories, Monument Australia, Dairy
Australia, Powerhouse Museum, ABC Radio National,
etc, etc, etc!)
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Why should
we be in
Trove?
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• Trove gets more than 60,000 unique site visits
per day
• Will drive traffic back to your site and your
collection
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Murder in Queensland
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/178528777
The murderer
The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954),
Tuesday 3 March 1953, page 1
The victim
The lawyer
Ken Mitchell pictured outside
Southport Law Court, 1952
Source: Item is held by John
Oxley Library, State Library of
Queensland.
Our second murder
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/178528776
Australia’s last
bushrangers, the
Kenniff brothers
Item is held by John Oxley Library,
State Library of Queensland
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Lists… how to…
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