Our Music collection contains over 300,000 musical scores and the largest collection of music research resources in Australia.

Look back on life in the 70s including politics, feminism, pop culture, news of the day, and more.

Learn about the Adelaide Repertory Theatre, recipient of a 2025 Community Heritage Grant.

With a generous bequest from Frank van Straten AM, the Library has brought Jim Sharman’s visual diaries and an original Rocky Horror Picture Show script online for the 50th anniversary of the film’s release.

Enter the time warp and explore the Rocky Horror Picture Show script and Jim Sharman’s visual diaries, now on Trove.

A selection of iconic Australian director and writer, Jim Sharman's, papers are now available online via Trove.

Photographs, programs, cast lists, souvenir booklets, invitations and ephemera relating to Australian ballet, plus personal papers of Geoffrey Ingram and Edouard and Xenia Borovansky.

1,011 plays and libretti published in Italy between about 1,720 and 1,900 including a number of Italian translations of plays written by French, German and other European dramatists.

Books on music and printed music published in Britain from the mid-17th century to the 20th century.

Collection of Australian drama consisting of 197 unpublished plays in typescript or manuscript form by Australian authors.

About 7600 music scores and albums, mainly piano and vocal works published in France, Britain, Germany, Austria and Italy in the late 18th and 19th centuries.

Personal papers of Hevingham-Root, biographies and autobiographies of opera singers and composers, theatre and concert programs, vocal scores, song books, anthems, sacred songs, oratorio, lieder and folk songs.