For the next four weeks, the Library is one of 20 locations hosting contemporary mixed media artworks as part of the Canberra Art Biennial. See Professor Robin Gerster present a lecture on his ...

Celebrating Australia’s regional towns and their heritage, Our Streets offers a snapshot of the country's iconic architectural styles and streetscapes. Featuring over 100 black and white images from ...

The National Library of Australia acknowledges Australia’s First Nations Peoples – the First Australians – as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of this land and gives respect to the Elders – past ...

When I tell people that I wrote a book about a colonial surveyor called Townsend, and that I spent almost seven years researching it, I am usually met with quizzical looks—it is rare for anyone to ...

This guide will help you find information about court cases. It explains how to find law reports and court records (including judgments and transcripts), both at the National Library and online. A ...

School’s in at the National Library’s Digital Classroom. Home to more than 10 million collection items, the National Library of Australia is the largest source of information in the world about ...

Access to Records by Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants Assistance with records searching is available if you are a Forgotten Australian, Former Child Migrant (sometimes referred to as a ...

The land that is now known as Australia was called by various names by the Indigenous peoples who lived there for thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans. These names varied between ...

The Whelan Collection contains about 1050 books by Australian authors, nearly all of them autographed and many containing lengthy annotations. The Palmer Collection contains about 2500 books and ...

Dame Nellie Melba (1861-1931), who was born in Melbourne, was the daughter of David Mitchell, a building constructor with musical interests. Helen Porter Mitchell was educated at a boarding school in ...

A family standing outside a tin shack called Wiloma during the Great Depression, New South Wales, ca. 1932, nla.obj-160054430 The Library's collections offer a wealth of resources to the Australian ...