![]() ![]() These are just a few examples across our diverse collection. Manuscript items, such as personal papers or club records, are often catalogued with a call number prefix of MLMSS. The Library’s pictorial prints are catalogued with the prefix PX followed by the letters A–E, depending on the physical size of the images or albums catalogued. We now catalogue books and serials with a running number by year, with a prefix of either ‘G’ (SRL collection) or ‘H’ (Mitchell collection). Until 2013, our print collections were catalogued by Dewey number. The printed collections of the Library are usually catalogued as either octavos (either no prefix or N, H or G), quartos (Q/NQ/GQ/HQ) or folios (F/NF). Unsure what you are looking at? How an item is catalogued can provide some context into what you may find contained within.Ĭall numbers with no prefix, or a prefix of 1–3 letters Defection of Hungarian athletes during the 1956 Melbourne OlympicsĬan’t find the list you are looking for? Get to researching and create one yourself!.Chinese Soccer Team visits to Australia 19 (soccer).VFL Grand Finals (Australian Rules football).Below is a selection of ‘digital scrapbooks’ accessible via Trove: Lists can include any item available digitally on Trove, as well as catalogue records from library holdings across Australia. Trove users can keep the tradition of scrapbooking alive by creating their own lists. The catalogue record also includes a complete list of subject headings. Newscuttings can be requested through the Library catalogue. Box 293, for example, contains a folder on surfing, with articles dating between 19 from titles as diverse as the London Punch, Manly Daily and Grafton’s Daily Examiner.Īlthough advances in digital technology have reduced the need for clipping news articles, this collection features time periods and newspapers not covered by online sources such as Trove or the Library’s eResources. Press clipping services were used by the Library for many years, and the collection includes a number of sports items. ![]() Scrapbooks in print collections can in most cases be requested online through the Library catalogue.įulfilling a similar role to scrapbooks is the Library’s newscutting collection, containing 353 boxes of clippings alphabetised by subject matter. They are subject to the same conditions of use as other Special Collections material. Scrapbooks housed within pictorial or manuscript collections can be requested via an Access to Special Collections Request form and viewed in the Special Collections area of the Mitchell Library Reading Room. The Library’s collection includes some treasures, including scrapbooks of boxer George Mendies, Rugby League administrator Harold Matthews, and Australian cricketer Lorna Thomas.These may include news cuttings documenting their achievements, as well as mementoes such as photographs, scorecards, invitation cards and assorted other ephemera. Many Australian sportspeople of past eras collected records of their sporting activities in scrapbooks.Suggested search strategyīrowse our collection with the keyword search sport scrapbook For more information, see our call numbers search tip at right. As a result they can be found in many places within the Library catalogue, and different access may apply to them. Scrapbooks are distinct from other print collections because, unlike books and periodicals which are mass-produced, they are personally curated, one-of-a-kind items. Scrapbook of the World Cup, England 1973 / Lorna Thomas As EW Gurley said of her own scrapbooks, ‘I have almost as much reluctance in showing some of my scrap-books as I would in permitting others to read my private diary.’. More than simply a collection of articles, however, these compilations provide us with a window into the minds of their creators, and how they made sense of the world. Cutting-based scrapbooks represent most of our scrapbook collection. ![]() Later in the 19th century, the practice of cutting articles from newspapers and assembling them in scrapbooks became more commonplace. At that time, scrapbooks primarily consisted of drawings, sketches and paintings along with illustrated printed material. The naming of that practice as ‘scrapbooking‘ however, may derive from England in the early 19th century. ![]() Humans have compiled individual records of their lives and the world around them for millennia. ![]()
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