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Giving Trove room to grow

Your average 10-year-old bears little resemblance to their baby selves, but surprisingly, Trove has not changed much in the past decade. Despite growth spurts, new skills learnt, and an ever-bigger circle of friends, Trove is trying to fit into a very old jumper and finding it much too short in the… well, everywhere.

This is changing. From late June 2020, Trove will have more room to grow to promote new collections, help researchers connect and bring more freely available, digitised items to an increasingly online community. Here’s the story

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