Trove: Let us work with you to tell your story VIRGINIA JAMES and

Trove: Let us work with you to tell your story

VIRGINIA JAMES and CATRIONA BRYCE

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Trove is… • National Library’s discovery service about Australia and for Australians • Almost 2000 organisations and over 300 million items • Not just digitised newspapers • Not just libraries! (National Museum of Australia, research repositories, Monument Australia, Dairy Australia, Powerhouse Museum, ABC Radio National, etc, etc, etc!)

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Why should we be in Trove?

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• Trove gets more than 60,000 unique site visits per day • Will drive traffic back to your site and your collection

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Murder in Queensland

http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/178528777

The murderer

The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Tuesday 3 March 1953, page 1

The victim

The lawyer

Ken Mitchell pictured outside Southport Law Court, 1952

Source: Item is held by John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.

Our second murder

http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/178528776

Australia’s last bushrangers, the Kenniff brothers Item is held by John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

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Lists… how to…

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