TROVE NLA and Legal Deposit System

Treasure TROVE !

TROVE (from "Treasure Trove") is an Australian online library database service which stores documents, digital images, bibliographic data of newspapers, documents, websites, manuscripts, images.  Hosted by the National Library of Australia it has over 70,000 daily users. TROVE continually adds new newspapers and more recent editions as they come out of copyright control.  TROVE relies of members to assist in the correction of machine Optical Character Recognition (OCR). e.g. a newspaper report after OCR says "There ws a fire at D0ncyster" a volunteer editor notices it an corrects it to "There was a fire at Doncaster".I have personally corrected and contributed to TROVE newspaper stories many hundreds of times.   Each correction improves the ability of users to search for "Doncaster".  Before the correction, "D0ncyster" would not have been found in a search.TROVE needs our assistance to stay alive. Only recently, it was threatened with partial shut down due to funding limits.  Please consider going online and completing the online petition at the Australian Parliament Website to support TROVE in it's request for increased funding.

National eDeposit (NED) of DTHS Newsletters to NLA visible on TROVE

DTHS deposits copies of our newsletter and publications to the Natonal Library of Australia (NLA) "Legal Deposit" system.  They can be viewed online here (Click "Browse this collection").

We have an account with NED (National Electronic Deposit) for the NLA (National Library of Australia) which accepts our newsletter and other publications as contributions to TROVE.  

Actions:

• July2025: Uploaded digitally created newsletters from 2017 03 to 2025 06
• July2025: Asked contact Zac. at Serial Acquisitions, State Library Victoria T 03 8664 7000 F 03-9663-1480 serials@slv.vic.gov.au
• Where are our past non digitally created contributions >

It is a legal requirement that societies with publications submit them to the National Library Archives. DTHS has alway done this from it's inception.  These days, the method of submission is via a digital upload using the National edeposit (NED) system.  We login at https://ned.gov.au/ned/publisher/my-deposits.

Zac, from Serial Acquisitions Collection Curation is very helpful to us in making this an easy process. He works in State Library Victoria, 328 Swanston Street Melbourne VIC 3000. T +61 3 8664 7000  F +61 3 9663 1480 serials@slv.vic.gov.au.  slv.vic.gov.au

DTHS periodicals can be found at:

• https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2742220420#
• https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/27244261/version/272240588 (digital copies)
• https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/27244261/version/32841159 (physical newsletters)

All deposits up to date as at 1 September 2025