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Rows of shelves filled with colourful books and doorways lined down the middle

What we collect

A National Library of Australia archival cart with labeled special collections boxes, placed in a reading room beside wooden tables and yellow seating.

How we collect

Two people work at a table with tools and brushes, restoring old books. Both wear aprons. The person in the foreground has long brown hair and red glasses, focusing on a book. The other person is slightly out of focus in the background.

Preservation

Over the shoulder of woman using laptop. On her screen she is using Trove to look at a digitised photo of nurses

Grow our digital library

Several people in the Parliamentary Reading Room. One man is looking down at documents on a round table.

Commonwealth Parliamentary Library Reading Room, 1956

History of the collection

An old black and white map of the Sunda Strait decorated with pictures of navigational symbols, landmarks and ships

Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer, Afconterfeytinge van die strate oft engde van Sunda, tusschen Sumatra en Iava in Oost Indien, als oock die baye oft rede voor Bantam die hooft-stadt van Iava, tesamen met alle hare eylanden, clippen, ondiepten en sanden, alles nae t' leven net afgetogen, c.1602, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3444422116

Acquisition highlights

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