Library Visionaries
The Library Visionaries is a new group of supporters who are keen to make a difference to your children’s educational future through digital learning. As a Library Visionary you can join our exciting new philanthropic program to support digital learning.
This is a tax deductible donation program and starts from $1,000 per year.
Join the Library Visionaries program now
About the Library Visionaries
As a Library Visionary you can join our exciting new philanthropic program to support digital learning.
The State Library of NSW is determined to make its world-renowned collections accessible online to new generations of students and teachers. Learning inside and outside the classroom has fundamentally changed through digitisation.
Every Australian child should have the opportunity to see and learn from our amazing collection of over five million items - manuscripts, maps, family papers, diaries and photographs. Our goal is to preserve, transcribe and make available online 10,000 digitised items annually that are relevant to students.
Funds are needed for this ambitious program.
Not only will you make a difference to our children and grandchildren’s educational future but you will also be invited to a program of special events to meet innovative thinkers and writers at the forefront of educational development.
Library Visionaries will be acknowledged for their generosity on the State Library of NSW website, and in the Library Council Annual Report and the Foundation Annual Report
A sample of key documents to be digitised
William Bligh's letters describing the mutiny on HMS Bounty 1789
Journal of the proceedings of His Majesty's ship Resolution, James Cook Esq, Commander, by George Gilbert, 9 April 1776 to 29 November 1779
William Hilton Hovell's Journal on the voyage to and at Western Port, New South Wales, 7 November 1826 to 25 March 1827
Sir Thomas Mitchell's diary, sketch and field book, 1846 -1855
Captain Michael Hogan's Log book of the ship Marquis Cornwallis, 1796
George Tobin's Journal on HMS Providence, 1791-1793
Blanche Mitchell's diary, 25 December 1865 to 29 April 1866, 9 September to 12 December 1866
George Augustus Robinson's Journals, 1829 -1849
Sir Samuel Griffith papers, Successive stages of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia, 1891
Rachel Henning letters, 28 December 1853 to 31 March 1890
Frank Hurley diaries and related papers 1917-1918.
