Dr Wesley Lim presented a lecture on his 2023 National Library Fellowship research into the papers of dancer and choreographer Gertrud Bodenwieser.

12,569 music scores which were used in Australian cinemas in the silent film era (roughly 1896 to 1929).

Discover the Symphony Australia Collection, featuring unpublished music by Australian composers from 1910 to 1970, including Alfred Hill, Peter Sculthorpe, and Margaret Sutherland. With chamber, choral, orchestral, and vocal pieces, as well as works from the colonial era and Eugene Goossens, this collection, donated in 2001, is a key resource in Australian music history.

This large collection of music covering seven decades of Australian musical history, consists of scores and performance parts.

Enter the musical world of seventeenth and early nineteenth century Britain with rare prints, books and manuscripts.

Our theatre and performance music collections showcase the music Australians were listening to throughout the 20th century.

Our collections document the history and development of dramatic and comic theatre in Australia.

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

The JC Williamson Ltd archives include a wide range of materials, such as business records, playscripts, libretti, music, programs, magazines, books, costume designs, and photographs. It also contains personal papers from Williamson's business partners, the Tait family and George Tallis.

One of the largest oral history collections in Australia with recordings of over 900 individuals in all States, as well as folk groups, singing groups, bands and choirs.

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.