The Library recently acquired an original draft of a poem by Mark Twain in the form of a letter.

Records for much of the Rare Books Collection are in our catalogue, but if you do not find the item you are looking for, please ask for help: the item may not yet be catalogued, or an alternative version may be available

A letter from Sir John Franklin to Captain John Washington from 1839 was recently acquired by the Library.

The National Library has recently digitised two letters from the collections of Enid Lyons and Dorothy Tangney.

Our dance collection contains portraits, manuscripts, oral history interviews, photographs, music scores, personal papers, theatre programs and memorabilia.

The National Library holds a rich and diverse range of library materials on the Pacific region, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.

A summary of copyright and rights in the Manuscripts Collection.

The Library’s medieval manuscripts comprise more than 6000 individual folios in 250 items and 12 bound volumes, dispersed across several collections.

Listing of immigrant diaries (1822-1895) held in the Manuscripts Collection

Drawings, sketches, plans and photographs of Australian colonial architecture, ancient buildings from China and Greece, furnature designs and sketches for a proposed "ideal city" of Kurrajong.

The Crome Collection includes papers, photographs, ephemera, aero-philatelic material, objects, books and pamphlets relating to Australian aviation collected by Ernest Alfred Crome.

Papers, maps, plans, photographs, paintings and other material related to early Canberra and the work of architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin.