The document discusses the digital preservation and access program at the Newcastle Region Library. It provides details on the size and scope of the library's collections, including 38,000 books and periodicals, 25,000 maps and plans, 300,000 photographs, and archived materials. It outlines the library's efforts to digitize collections, beginning in 1994 with photographs, and provides examples of digitized local newspapers, records from the 1989 Newcastle Earthquake, and materials from heritage studies and local business archives. It also describes the digital asset repository called KE Emu that is used to store and provide access to digitized materials.

1. Digitial preservation & access program: a brief tour Sue Ryan Newcastle Region Library

5. KE Emu catalogue

6. Emu: results screen

7. Emu: main entry

8. Emu: subjects

9. Emu: multimedia display

10. Emu: EXIF Data

11. Emu: image

12. Wallsend Main Street Heritage Study revisited

13. Wallsend Main Street Heritage Study revisited

15. Laman Street History Project

16. J. Ireland Pty Ltd Jesse Ireland 1835 - 1887 Ireland Archive

17. J. Ireland Pty Ltd: Bond Store c. 1890 Snowball collection

18. J. Ireland Pty Ltd: exhibition at Newcastle Show 1902 Snowball collection

19. J. Ireland Pty Ltd: welcome home to employees Ireland Archive

20. J. Ireland Pty Ltd: Gravestone of Jesse Ireland 1887 Snowball collection

25. Some general comments