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The National Library of Australia building at dusk, lit up with colourful projections.

Home: Enlighten 2024 at the National Library

01 Mar 2024

Learn about our Enlighten 2024 illuminations and find your home at your National Library.

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Books and octavos of various colours and binding from the Ferguson Collection on shelves

The Ferguson Collection situated in the National Library stacks

Honouring a legacy through digitisation

22 Jul 2025

A gift from the Ralf Iannuzzi Memorial Trust is helping us to digitise some of our rarest items.

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Family of three sitting in the crowded stands of a sports stadium while various events take place on the track and field. The parents seem to be enjoying a warm beverage while looking at their baby who lies in a stroller.

Family having a picnic in the stands, with a baby in one basket, and picnic paraphernalia in the other, Olympic Games, Melbourne, 28 November 1956, nla.obj-148938429

How to watch sports: a lesson from the 1956 Olympics

25 Sep 2023

Browse photographs from the 1956 Melbourne Olympics to learn the top tips for how to watch a sports game.

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Two people bending over a desk and looking at a book.

National Library of Australia staff looking at an album of paintings of Indian native costume on mica.

Indian Diaspora in Australia Collecting Project

04 Mar 2024

The National Library of Australia is calling on Australians with Indian heritage to add their story and experiences to the national collection.

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Photo of women from the dance group Bollydance Dipti in pink costumes taking a selfie in a crowd

Aishah Kenton, Bollydance Dipti dancers taking a selfie at the Indian Film Festival in Federation Square, Melbourne, Victoria, 17 August, 2024, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3428627828

Indian Diaspora in Australia documented through photography and oral histories

05 Aug 2025

We asked Australians with Indian heritage to help us build our collection and these materials are now online.

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Large wall of bookshelves with hundreds of colourful books

Indie publishing: your book in our collection

11 Jan 2024

If you are considering independently publishing your book, learn how to get your published book into the Library's collection.

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A handwritten diary entry in an old fashioned script.

George Thomson, Diary entry for Tuesday 26 May 1868, Diary of George Thomson, 1868-1869, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3308197449

Indigenous Australian cricket team touring England in the 1860s

12 Sep 2024

Australians have often gone to great lengths to see their favourite sporting teams, even back in the 1860s!

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Michael Raditya standing in the Main Reading Room and smiling

2025 Asia Study Grant recipient, Mr Michael Haryo Bagus Raditya

Indonesian dangdut music: Evolution, connections, perception

01 May 2025

Learn about how 2025 Asia Study Grant recipient Michael Raditya used the Library's collection grow his research on the Indonesian music genre dangdut.

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