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-----Original Message----- From: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee Sent: 02 May 2012 14:10 To: [log in to unmask] 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-blizzar d-australian-antarctic-division-collection/ Dr Martin Woods / Curator of Maps Australian Collections & Reader Services NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA T +61 2 6262 1280; Mob: 0404193366; E [log in to unmask]