Yay, I've finally finished processing all the available volumes of the Tasmanian Post Office Directories! You can now search across **54** volumes from 1890 to 1948. The recently-added volumes are:

- 1920
- 1933-34
- 1941-42
- 1942-43
- 1943-44
- 1945-46

While these volumes could be downloaded as PDFs from Libraries Tasmania, they weren't previously searchable, as they don't contain any OCRd text. I've extracted images from the PDFs, pre-processed the images, run them through Tesseract to extract the text, and used Datasette to make them searchable. Now all we need is for #librariesTasmania to add a link from their Directories page...

More on the latest update: https://updates.timsherratt.org/2024/11/21/six-more-volumes.html

Or just start searching: https://glam-workbench.net/libraries-tasmania/tasmanian-post-office-directories/

#histodons @histodons #familyHistory #GLAM

Ok, the 1944-45 volume has now been added to my database of Tasmanian Post Office Directories: https://glam-workbench.net/libraries-tasmania/tasmanian-post-office-directories/ 53 volumes done, only one to go!

I also realised that I hadn't enabled advanced text searches on the volumes I've processed recently (booleans, wildcards etc), that should be fixed now.

Also worth remembering that the scans of the volumes I've added recently aren't great quality -- tight bindings, uneven lighting, skewed pages -- so in many cases names in the first column of right-hand pages won't be OCRd correctly. There's not a lot I can do about it unless #LibrariesTasmania rescans them.

Hey consumers of lutruwita/Tasmania,

After a little bit of lobbying from myself and others, Libraries Tasmania has now made Choice Magazine available online and free to all members.

https://libraries.tas.gov.au/news/read-choice-magazine/

#LibrariesRock #ChoiceMagazine #LibrariesTasmania #lutruwita ##Tasmania