Uniting the corpus of our collections through visualization

This paper explores the challenges of visualizing digital and physical collections to enable discovery and use with reference to new models for academic and public libraries as well as the particular challenges faced by libraries with great heritage collections such as the State Library of New South Wales. That Library is renowned internationally for its unique collections on Australia and the surrounding region. It and its international peers face the challenge to present their heritage collections, their digitized versions and their contemporary print, media and born digital materials to as a discoverable corpus for researchers, students and the public.