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.

Thanks to a gift from the Susan and Isaac Wakil Foundation, we are digitising performing arts material from our incredible collection.

Find out about President of the Myer Foundation, Rupert Myer AO, keynote speech at the Library’s 2024 Patron Dinner.

Plant the seeds of creativity this month and watch your ideas grow.