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Hi, I’m from the Trove Support team,
and I’m going to show you how to find Australian pictures in Trove.
Picture Australia was integrated into Trove in June 2012.
The integration allows the National Library
to improve search tools across a wide range of content,
use faster technologies which provide more capacity for innovation
and deploy better ways to load new images of Australiana.
We’ll start from the Trove homepage –
we just need to type
trove.nla.gov.au into the browser
Next we click on the ‘Pictures, photos, objects’ zone
from the home page of Trove
We can then tick the ‘Available online’
and ‘Australian content’ boxes
underneath the main search box.
I’m interested in finding images of Ned Kelly
so I’ll type ‘ned kelly’ into the search box.
Then click search.
You can further refine your search using the ‘Advanced search’ screen.
I now want to find paintings of Ned Kelly.
First I’ll enter the phrase ‘ned kelly’
into one of the search boxes.
Because I want paintings of Ned Kelly
rather than by Ned Kelly
I’ll leave it set to ‘Keyword'
We’ll continue to limit the results to ‘Australian content’
If you were interested in paintings from a certain time
you could limit the search by year.
You can search for a particular kind of image.
This is where I will choose ‘Art work’,
in order to find paintings rather than photographs.
finally,
as I want to see which paintings are available online
I’ll select ‘online’ from the box next to Availability.
This has narrowed the search to paintings of Ned Kelly
which are available online.
We hope you enjoy searching for Australian pictures in Trove.
If you’re interested in learning more about Trove,
why not check out our other ‘How to videos’?
Trove is available online now
and we hope you like it!