Message-Id: <199904220517.WAA47050@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 15:05:35 EST+10 From: Alan Ventress <mailto:aventres@ILANET.SLNSW.GOV.AU> Subject: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales PICMAN databa To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
From: "Alan Ventress" <mailto:aventres@ilanet.slnsw.gov.au>I am pleased to announce that PICMAN, the Mitchell Library's database of its pictures and manuscript collections, is now available on the Internet at http://www.slnsw.gov.au/picman/picman.htm.
PICMAN contains catalogue records of material in the pictures and manuscripts collections of the Mitchell Library, Dixson Library and Dixson Galleries which have been catalogued since 1992. It includes records of personal papers and private archives, paintings, drawings, photographs, objects, posters, architectural plans as well as six digitised photographic collections.
PICMAN contains a total of around 312,000 records of which 302,000 are attached to digital images. Approximately 2300 manuscript collection records are also included.
The digitised photographic collections range from the 1870s to the 1980's. They have been drawn from separate photographic collections - such as the 1870s Holtermann collection of regional NSW and Sydney, the NSW Government Printing Office Collection, the Australasian Antarctic Expedition collection of 1911-1914, the 1930-50s commercial work of the Sam Hood studio and the 1960s, '70s and '80s work of the Australian Photographic Agency (APA). Because of copyright law, some the APA images cannot be delivered over the Internet, and so must be viewed at the Library.
PICMAN takes over from the familiar card catalogues, but does not replace or duplicate them.
Alan Ventress Mitchell Librarian State Library of New South Wales Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW 2000 Australia
Tel: +61 2 92731466 Fax: +61 2 92731245 Mob: 0419 293 021 Email: mailto:aventres@slnsw.gov.au State Library url http://www.slnsw.gov.au