Led by Queensland University of Technology, in partnership with the University of Queensland and the University of Sydney, the project aims to digitise a selection of early Australian children's literature from Settlement to 1945, alongside relevant secondary materials. The majority of these items have been kindly supplied by National Library of Australia, State Library Victoria, Monash University Library, and other library collections. By 2011, the Children's Literature Digital Resources Project (CLDRP) will deliver a range of digitised primary and secondary texts to support Australian literature teaching and research communities. The project received both ARC LIEF and QUT funding to support the digitisation of early (pre-1945) Australian children's books and some secondary sources, and to make them available as a 'research resource'. A systematic process for seeking copyright permission to digitise has been developed and documented.
The aims of the project were to:
– establish an important digital facility for research, teaching, and information provision around Australian children’s literature
– provide access to a wide range of high-quality full-text data, both primary and secondary resources
– provide access to essential library and research information infrastructure and facilities for established and emerging researchers in the fields of Humanities and Education
– enable research while preserving important heritage material.