Find out more about our redesigned website - a new way to explore the Library.

Congratulations to the 23 recipients of National Library of Australia Fellowships, Scholarships, Creative Arts Fellowships and Asia Study Grants in 2025. 

Find out how a powerful newspaper article written in 1855 by a fugitive slave was re-published into a book and added to our collection.

We’re pleased to announce that 55 community-led organisations will receive a Community Heritage Grant (CHG) in 2024.

Thinking of visiting the Library around Christmas or New Year's Day? Plan your visit with our summer opening hours, from Monday 23 December 2024 to Wednesday 1 January 2025.

A very rare chart of the Sunda Strait – located between the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java – from 1602 has recently been added to our collection.

For the next 4 weeks, the Library is one of 20 locations hosting contemporary mixed media artworks as part of the Canberra Art Biennial.

Applications for volunteer guides are open now until 11:59pm on Tuesday 29 October 2024.

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

With the Opalgate Foundation’s support, we are creating a new lifelong learning space on our website.