The Australian Children's Literature Digital Resources Project (CLDR) forms a key outcome of the AustLit Children's Literature Research Community. Led by Queensland University of Technology, in partnership with The University of Queensland and 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 to us by National Library of Australia, while others have been supplied by State Library Victoria and Monash University Library.

The purpose of the project is to provide a centralised access point to information about Australian children's literature and writers and a growing of body full text primary resources. CLDR provides access to these resources in two key ways:

AustLit Full Text

The Children's Literature Resources collection in AustLit contains a selection of primary and secondary resources that have been digitised by AustLit, through cooperation with various Australian libraries. Items in this collection are identified by the symbol. These full text materials are fully searchable and can be downloaded for research purposes.

Click here for access to these CLDR full text resources.

Click here for a sample

Internet Publications

As well as digitising primary and secondary material, the project locates and provides pathways to existing online resources or internet publications to expand the usefulness of AustLit's Children's Literature subset. These resources include both primary and secondary texts and are identified by the are identified by the symbol.

Click here for access to all the full text material in the Children's Literature subset.

Click here for a sample

The completed project will be a valuable research tool for students and academics across a range of disciplines

Further discussion of the project and its aims can be found in the article 'Present and Active: Digital Publishing in a Post-Print Age' by Kerry Mallan and Annette Patterson HERE.

We invite feedback on current or anticipated research within our scope to complement our own survey of the topic. For further information, please contact the Project Officer - Amy Cross [07 3138 3795 or amy.cross@qut.edu.au] or Chief Investigator - Professor Kerry Mallan [kerry.mallan@gmail.com].