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Victorians at War Website
 
 

Collaborative Activities

The State Library of Victoria participates in a number of collaborative projects with other institutions.

AskNow

AskNow is an online reference service delivered using chat software. It is a project of National and State Libraries Australasia.

Copyright & Digitisation

The State Library is a partner in this two-year collaborative project to evaluate the influence of copyright laws on the processes of digitisation being undertaken by Australian cultural institutions.

Edna Walling Website

This collaborative project with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation used the Library's collection of Edna Walling's photographs, garden plans and manuscripts to create a website.

Garden History Archive

This joint project of the Library and the Australian Garden History Society (Victorian Branch) was established to encourage people to donate their garden-history related documents and pictures to this archive.

Mission Voices Website

A collaboration between the Library and the Koorie Heritage Trust Inc, this project will establish an interactive website documenting the history of Koorie experiences on six mission and reserve sites in Victoria.

Open Road

Open Road was established to develop online resources and services for Victoria's multilingual communities. Launched in 1999 as a pilot website, this collaborative project allowed public libraries to expand their collections to meet the needs of smaller ethnic groups within their communities.

PANDORA

Since 1998, the State Library of Victoria has been a partner in this project which was set up at the National Library of Australia to archive selected Australian online publications and develop a national strategy for their long-term preservation.

Picture Australia

Launched in September 2000, Picture Australia was the first service of its kind in the world. The State Library of Victoria was one of the original partners in this collaborative project which provides access to over 500,000 images from leading Australian cultural institutions.

The Searchers: Australian Information Seekers and Citizens

This is an Australian Research Council Linkage project conducted by the Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University in collaboration with the State Library. From 2007 to 2009 it will examine the strategic challenges of the online information environment for major public libraries.

Victorians at War Website

A collaboration between the Department of Veterans' Affairs and the State Library of Victoria, this website records the experiences and recollections of 20 Victorians through a series of interviews and material held in the Library's collections.

 
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