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Subject: Re: Braving the blizzard: Australian Antarctic aerial
photographs collection
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 09:04:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Julie Sweetkind-Singer <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: Julie Sweetkind-Singer <[log in to unmask]>
To: Air Photo Maps, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
This is very impressive! Well done, Martin, to you and your team!
Julie
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Julie Sweetkind-Singer
Assistant Director of Geospatial, Cartographic and Scientific Data &
Services
Head Librarian, Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections
Stanford University
397 Panama Mall; MC 2211
Stanford, CA 94305
(650)725-1102
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*Subject: *Braving the blizzard: Australian Antarctic aerial photographs
collection
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Braving the blizzard: Australian Antarctic aerial photographs
collection
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 14:02:40 +1000
From: Martin Woods <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
I am pleased to announce that after two years concerted effort, the Maps
team at the National Library have finished rehousing and listing the
large archival collection of Antarctic aerial photographs deposited with
the Library by AUSLIG (Australian Surveying and Land Information Group)
in 1998. The collection compiled by the Australian Antarctic Division
and comprising nearly 70,000 aerial photographs, is of imagery taken
between 1956 -1978. The main aim of this project was to sort, rehouse,
list and describe the contents according to the original numbering
system, but in a way that allows online discovery and retrieval at place
name level. It was listed with the assistance of aviation specialist
volunteer Ron Smith, who with support of cataloguing staff described the
photographs and other material. Maps received valuable assistance also
from Henk Brolsma at AAD, and one or two former ANARE (Australian
National Antarctic Research Expeditions) expeditioners. The NLA collectio!
n of aerial photographs complements and to some degree overlaps with
that of the Australian Antarctic Data Centre.
The collection miscellany includes logs from missions flown by the USA
in 1947 as part of Operation Highjump, ground photographs taken of
persons and activities associated with the Australian Antarctic
stations, various ANARE reports, including the 1973 annual dog report
for Mawson station, personal diaries and technical reports. In addition,
there is some material from the British National Antarctic Expedition of
1910 – 1913 and material from Mawson’s AAE 1912 expedition to the
Antarctic and Macquarie Island. The aerial photographs are now housed
under controlled conditions and described by 206 catalogue records that
summarise the flight runs by place name and year, with a finding aid for
miscellaneous items.
The Library has now controlled Australian (1920s-1980s), Papua New
Guinea (1941-1975) and Antarctic aerial photographs deposited in the
1980s, totalling over 800 000 aerial images now findable through the
catalogue. Items may be identified online and viewed in the reading
room, or image orders placed using the Library’s Copies Direct service.
The parent catalogue record for the Antarctic photos, from which you can
navigate to more detailed information and to a finding aid for the
miscellaneous material, is here:
http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn5548044
Please visit the Library blog to see/comment more on the project and
collection –
http://blogs.nla.gov.au/behind-the-scenes/2012/04/03/braving-the-blizzard-australian-antarctic-division-collection/
Dr Martin Woods / Curator of Maps
Australian Collections & Reader Services
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA
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