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

An 1827 illustration of an echidna has recently been added to our collection.

Katherine Kovacic, the author of NLA Publishing's new title Australia's Dogs, talks about the photography included.

Professor Libby Robin launched her latest book What Birdo is That? A Field Guide to Bird People, a book that draws heavily on the National Library's collections.

Topic

Authors have used the beauty, harshness and problems of our land to tell their stories, often basing their stories in familiar locations and using their reaction to a particular environment as the central theme.

Katherine Kovacic

Dr Penny Olsen, illustrated by Rhonda N. Garward

Learn about the treatment work our conservators have recently done on thepattern plates for the supplement to The Birds of Australia by John Gould.

Judith Wright, introduction by Meredith McKinney

Charles Massy and Mandy Foot

Penny Olsen

919 watercolours and gouaches of flowers and birds of Australia and Papua New Guinea painted 1870-1920, plus a small quantity of personal papers.