About 240 recordings of folk music, folklore, and oral histories documenting family history, local history, work experiences, music and other arts.

The resources available for each house may be different, due to the fact the availability, organisation, and location of records vary from state to state.

Over 13,000 negatives, transparencies, and photographs of cattle stations taken between 1951 and 1961, as well as 52 British Hydrographic Office charts and maps of Australia and the Pacific and personal papers of Johnston.

421 photographs taken in the period 1858–1910 in Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and South Australia, mostly of public buildings, street scenes, rural scenes and events.

About 500 books, pamphlets, reports, leaflets, circulars, reprints and transcripts, mostly published 1920–1950, relating to communism, the labour movement and international politics. About half are Australian.

Papers and photographs related to Clark's life and work as an Australian historian of renown.

About 2,100 books, pamphlets, government publications, tourist booklets, magazines and other works about Mauritius and the Indian Ocean. Mostly in French or English, but also a few items in Mauritian Creole.

Folklore performances and oral history interviews recorded between 1981 and 1989, containing music, recitations and recollections of performances and local history.

About 3,460 books and pamphlets, mostly local, church, business and organisational histories from around Australia.

Queensland’s history is now easier to search online.

Learn some useful tips and suggestions on how to use newspapers for family history research.

Author Mark Greenwood shares his process of writing NLA Publishing children’s title The Legend of Jessie Hickman.