Hear from one of our 2024 National Library of Australia Scholars about her research in the Indonesian collection. 

Look to the stars with stories and collections that tell Australia's role in space exploration.

Australian slang unites the ‘true blue’ and the ‘dinky-di’, and separates the ‘cheeky little possums’ from the ‘happy little Vegemites’.

Two new books in The Artists of the National Library of Australia series will be published in February 2025.

Applications for 2024 National Library of Australia Fellowships, Creative Arts Fellowships and the Folk Fellowship open on 3 March 2023.

Applications for 2025 National Library of Australia Fellowships and Creative Arts Fellowships open on 12 March 2024

Searching for the 18th-century character in the Library's rare books and music collections.

The National Library has recently digitised two letters from the collections of Enid Lyons and Dorothy Tangney.

We're celebrating five years of the National edeposit service (NED).

Stroll down memory lane and explore how iconic Aussie pantry staples were advertised in the 1940s and 50s.

Follow the story of Lorenzo Gamboa and his fight to return to his Australian-born wife and children after his deportation in 1946. 

Explore early women writers in the Library's rare books collections up to the year 1700.