Learn about the research of 2024 National Library Scholar Zoe Smith and what she found during her time at the Library.

I guess it’s true what they say – birds of a feather flock together! View Betty’s original watercolours for the illustrations ...

No longer yours - find out how a powerful newspaper article written in 1855 by a fugitive slave was re-published into a book ...

The Library encourages use of its collection items in accordance with the Australian Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Protocol and in line with advice received from ICIP holders. The ...

55 community-led organisations have received a 2024 Community Heritage Grant. Recipients include the Robin Boyd Foundation, the Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action (Queensland), ...

We’re pleased to announce that 55 community-led organisations will receive a Community Heritage Grant (CHG) in 2024.

Keepsakes: Australians and the Great War was the National Library of Australia's exhibition showcasing items from the collections relating to the First World War. Read this essay by exhibition curator ...

Thinking of visiting the Library around Christmas or New Year's Day? Plan your visit with our summer opening hours, from Monday 23 December 2024 to Wednesday 1 January 2025. Collection deliveries will ...

Prison hulks were floating prisons used from 1776 as temporary accommodation for prisoners from overcrowded jails. A hulk is a ship that is still afloat but unable to put to sea. The ships were ...