About the Collection

Help Improve the Collection

The Local Studies Team is focused on establishing provenance and information about all the items in the Collection. If you have any information that will help to identify people, places or the history of these items, we would love to hear from you.

Please contact the Local Studies Team with any information so that we can improve the Collection with your help

Purchasing Images

Local Studies images are available for purchase if they were taken before 1955 or have permission to reproduce indicated in their record. All images in the Local Studies Collection have copyright statements that explain if they are available for purchase and further information can be found in the Copyright section of this page.

Images will be supplied in a high resolution digital JPEG for a fee, please see Council's Fees and Charges for associated costs.

Delivery of images can be expected within 5 working days after receiving payment.

Please contact the Local Studies Team with any purchase enquiries.

Copyright

All images in the local studies collection will have copyright statements that clearly explain their use.

For all images please credit: Georges River Libraries Local Studies Collection

By crediting the Collection, you help to support the library in promoting the history and heritage of the area, as well as helping other interested people with research.

Photographs taken before 1955 are in the public domain and can be used freely for research and study purposes.

Images taken after 1955:

• If Council has obtained permission to provide reproductions of images, these items are provide under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence.
• If images have no known copyright, they are not available for purchase as this could infringe copyright. These images are provided on the catalogue for research and study purposes only.
• If you have further information about these images, please contact the Local Studies Team so we can improve our collection.

Takedown Statement

Georges River Libraries endeavours to provide access to images in accordance to their copyright conditions. To state the correct provenance and copyright status of all items in the collection, the Local Studies Team has researched each image to establish the correct conditions to provide access.

If copyright and provenance is unable to be established, images have been digitised in line with digitising for preservation and made available for research and study purposes with copyright statements explaining these conditions. These images are not available for purchase due to their unknown copyright.

If you have any information or concerns about the copyright or provenance of images in the collection, we encourage you to contact the Local Studies Team so that we can investigate this new information. You need to contact the library and clearly demonstrate how the image is culturally insensitive, inappropriate or offensive, or that it infringes copyright. When the library receives a takedown request, the following procedure will be used to resolve the request.

Steps taken will be:

• The item is removed from public access when a takedown request is received.
• Evidence is provided to the Library about how the image is culturally insensitive, inappropriate, offensive, or infringes copyright.
• Georges River Libraries investigates the evidence provided.
• Depending on the outcome of the investigation, one of the following steps will occur:

• Access to the material remains unchanged on the Georges River Libraries catalogue.
• Access to the material is restored with changes in response to the takedown request via the Georges River Libraries catalogue.
• Access to the material is modified (e.g. online access changed to onsite only access, access restricted to members only or to a particular group).
• Material is retained in the Georges River Libraries collection but access is removed.
• Material is removed from the Georges River Libraries website and/or collection.