See some of the creative works from our collections have come out of copyright and into the public domain this year.

Read about works and manuscripts in our collection that are now in the public domain.

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.

Learn about two broadsides recently added to our collection. 

The redeveloped Catalogue is now live.

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.

A 1913 Russian brochure on teaching the 'Australian method' of swimming has recently been added to our collection.

With support from Library Patrons, we have digitised the collections of some of Australia’s most remarkable women leaders. 

The Library has recently digitised the speeches of Dr Lowitja O’Donoghue AC CBE DSG.

Sustainable funding for the National Library of Australia