Use this guide to help find and access resources in our collection about Australia's climate action protests, anti-mining protests and the Franklin Dam blockade. 

Find out how to use electoral rolls to locate your family members or other peoples location or addresses over the years and who was living with them.

While Captain Cook's journal from the H.M.S. Endeavour is often on display in the Library's Treasures Gallery, it is currently not on display to allow rest and treatment for the long term preservation of the item.

Explore manuscripts and records that give a glimpse into the approximately 250 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages.

For many centuries Europeans believed there must be a vast land in the southern hemisphere, variously called ‘Terra Australis Incognita’ from the Latin for ‘Unknown South Land’.

The Library has a diverse collection of materials documenting the history of Australian musical performance.

The Dance collection includes unique Australian dance resources across a spectrum of dance styles.

Circus, magic and mime, and puppetry

Our collections document the history and development of dramatic and comic theatre in Australia.

We hold one of Australia’s largest collections of performing arts materials.