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Australia / New searchable Post Office & Telephone directories for NSW and Tasmania
« on: Saturday 17 September 22 03:47 BST (UK)  »
I've recently created some free, online, searchable versions of Post Office and Telephone Directories for NSW and Tasmania and thought they might be of use:


The directories had been digitised by SLNSW/Trove and Libraries Tasmania but were not easily searchable. I've put all the text content into databases, indexed it by line, and linked the text back to page images – so with one search you can get results across all the volumes in a series.

I've also created an aggregated Name Index Search that searches for names across 253 open datasets from 10 Australian libraries and archives – more than 10 million records: https://glam-workbench.net/name-search/

Hope you find them useful!

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Australia / (***Completed with thanks***)Trove Evaluation Survey -- Help improve Trove!
« on: Thursday 16 May 13 03:25 BST (UK)  »
Help the NLA improve Trove and win a Coles Myer voucher or a Trove T-shirt

The National Library of Australia has commissioned a research company, Gundabluey Research, to help us evaluate customer satisfaction with Trove.

You’re invited to participate in this survey by following the link below. Your participation will contribute to the ongoing development and improvement of the Trove service.

The online survey will take around 15 minutes to complete depending on your experience, and every completed survey goes into the draw for one of ten $100 Coles Myer vouchers or one of 20 Trove T-shirts.

Whether you’re a new or experienced user, an academic or a family researcher, or just use Trove to pursue your interests, we would appreciate your time. Your comments will remain confidential.

Please follow this link to start the survey: http://iquestion.completemr.com/Q219867/

For more information see the Trove User Forum: http://trove.nla.gov.au/forum/showthread.php?1446-Trove-Evaluation-Survey-Your-chance-to-help-us-improve-Trove!


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Australia Resources & Offers / Re: Australian WW1 Record Finder
« on: Thursday 14 February 13 03:07 GMT (UK)  »
No worries.

You may have noticed too that the Archives Viewer comes with a couple of extra features...

You can print a whole file or a range of pages.

You can share persistent urls for files or individual pages (which include the correct file metadata), so it's easy to share your discoveries with others.

There's more details in this blog post:

http://discontents.com.au/old-loves-new-views/

cheers, Tim


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Australia Resources & Offers / Re: Australian WW1 Record Finder
« on: Thursday 14 February 13 01:03 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, I'm the developer - glad you're finding it useful.

Just thought I'd let you know that you can actually view any digitised NAA file using my Archives Viewer. Just go to:

http://dhistory.org/archives/naa/

And enter an item barcode.

There's also a bookmarklet you can use to jump directly from RecordSearch, see:

http://dhistory.org/archives/naa/connectors/

Cheers, Tim

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