This ‘double’ poster session will illustrate the innovative way the University of Tasmania Library is exploring the use of varying information presentation types to make their historic collections as widely accessible as possible.

This poster session will demonstrate the use of primary source material to create –
1. a printed book,
2. a physical exhibition
3. an online exhibition, and finally
4. digitising and uploading all items into an OAI (Open Access Initiative) repository. All items are then searchable and accessible by global search engines item by item, thereby maximising exposure to and promotion of, the original primary sources. Online access to these items has also provided new opportunities for use in teaching units by the UTAS School of History.

Two UTAS collections of national interest: The Olive Pink Collection of over 200 Central Australian botanical paintings (with strong links to the Olive Pink Botanic Garden in Alice Springs) and the Quaker collection of books, photographs, diaries and letters; (the largest Quaker collection in the southern hemisphere – with links to the Tasmanian Society of Friends Collection of Tasmanian Quaker costume and other artefacts), will be used as case studies to show how this process has worked so effectively.