The resources available for each house may be different, due to the fact the availability, organisation, and location of records vary from state to state.

This Discovery Video unravels the often tricky world of copyright and exceptions that cover educational and research use.

Learn some useful tips and suggestions to get you started researching your town or local area with the National Library's collection.

The Library is unable to provide specialist advice about how to care for personal or family archives, but there are a number of resources which can help.

A fundamental role of the National Library is to preserve Australia's documentary heritage, and to make sure it is available for people to use for as long as possible.

The PROMPT Collection is a collection of collections. It relates to the performing arts industry in Australia from the 1880s until the present.

The National Library incorporates major works of art that have become closely associated with the building.

Our newspaper collections include digitised historic and modern newspapers accessible online, as well as newspapers in microform and paper formats.

Learn how you can search across millions of newspapers, journals, books, pictures, maps, and many other items from cultural, community and research collections around Australia.

The Library’s medieval manuscripts comprise more than 6000 individual folios in 250 items and 12 bound volumes, dispersed across several collections.