Over 32,000 items, including rare books, pamphlets, maps, and ephemera, covering topics such as Oceania, transport, and literature. Compiled by Sir John Alexander Ferguson, it is a key resource for Australian history and bibliography.

This guide will help you find and view different types of ebooks in the Library collections.

About 4000 books, mostly published in France in the 19th and early 20th century, as well as a number of German, Italian, Latin and Greek books.

About 6200 books about European literature, history and culture, mostly published in the period 1880-1960. 

Country house library collection of 1648 books and 54 serials with strength in English and French publications of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Family papers and about 1600 books of the De Salis family from 1850-1920. Covering a broad range of subjects, including classics, religion, history, politics, literature, science, art, and children's books, reflecting the families intellectual interests.

Module

This resource is aligned to the Australian Curriculum: English for Year 7 students. The module is designed to introduce students to a variety of texts on the theme of cultural perspectives and to enable them to understand how authors, poets and cartoonists reflect their own cultural perspectives through their chosen medium.

Module

This resource aligns to the Australian Curriculum for Year 3 English - Language, Literature and Literacy.

The Friends of the Library present their annual collection viewing event.

Collections of papers from several significant Australian authors collected by Harry Chaplin.

The Library hosts a full weekend program of events for this year's Canberra Writers Festival.

The Library hosts a full weekend program of events for this year's Canberra Writers Festival.