This dataset contains bibliographic records and persistent URLs for the digitised maps held within the State Library of Western Australia’s map collection, including cadastral and town-site maps across the state of Western Australia. The maps range from the early 1840s to the mid-1980s and include land use, zoning, lot numbers, boundary measurements, terms of sale, and locality plans; as well as distances from utilities, landmarks and businesses. Highlights include the Lindsay J. Peet Collection of Cadastral Maps; town-site maps from the WA Department of Lands and Surveys; the Australia Soviet Military City Plans, Perth; and the Polus Antarticus states, which show the South Pole and Australia prior to the discoveries of Tasman in 1642 and 1643-44. This set also includes the Historic map series 1880-1890 which has been captured as its own dataset.

Bibliographic data and links to persistent URL of Lands & Surveys Western Australian Historic Map Series of the 1880-1890s, showing State Land Divisions, pastoral leases with number, lessee, area, boundary length, location numbers, tracks, roads and their gazettal date.

Information about WA public libraries including: name, street and postal address, phone number, latitude, longitude and elevation from sea level.

Library membership data for State Library of Queensland, includes suburb, postcode, country and date of membership. Not included is any data identifying individual members. Please see State Library’s Management of Personal Information Policy: https://content.slq.qld.gov.au/sites/default/files/Management%20of%20Personal%20Information%20Policy.pdf

1859 York district Census. Entry is by name of person, Place of occupation, age, religion, occupation, literacy, arrival ship and date. Details of marriage, wife and children and employer are given. The Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI) is a highly used resource at the State Library of Western Australia. A recent generous contribution by the Friends of Battye Library (FOBS) has enabled SLWA to have the original handwritten index cards scanned and later transcribed. The dataset contains: several csv files with data describing card number, card text and url link to image of the original handwritten card. The transcription was crowd-sourced and we are aware that there are some data quality issues including: * Some cards are missing * Transcripts are crowdsourced so may contain spelling errors and possibly missing information * Some cards are crossed out. Some of these are included in the collection and some are not * Some of the cards contain relevant information on the back (usually children of the person mentioned). This info should be on the next consecutive card * As the information is an index, collected in the 1970s from print material, it is incomplete. It is also unreferenced. It is still a very valuable dataset as it contains a wealth of information about early settlers in Western Australia. It is of particular interest to genealogists and historians

The City of Sydney Library has 9 branches where you can browse and borrow from the collection, access free wifi and use our public computers and printers. There are also 2 unstaffed branches in the network where you can pick up and drop off loans and access free wifi.More information on Libraries

The City of Sydney Library has 9 branches where you can browse and borrow from the collection, access free wifi and use our public computers and printers. There are also 2 unstaffed branches in the network where you can pick up and drop off loans and access free wifi.More information on Libraries