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

2023 Canberra Day Oration by Ken Heffernan: Canberra's heritage in transition: A place for engagement and thought.

The Canberra & District Historical Society proudly presented the 2024 Canberra Day Oration.

The Canberra & District Historical Society proudly presented the 2025 Canberra Day Oration.

The Canberra & District Historical Society proudly presented the 2026 Canberra Day Oration.

The Canberra Writers Festival was back for another year with a weekend of all things books and writing.

The Library hosted a full weekend program of events for this year's Canberra Writers Festival.

Canberra Writer's Festival Artistic Director, Beejay Silcox, talked about the festival and the inaugural meeting of Canberra’s Biggest Book Club. 

Explore the dance style of Gertrud Bodenwieser through photographs with 2023 National Library Fellow Wesley Lim.

Photographs by Jeff Carter of Australian life dating from the 1950s onwards, plus oral history recordings with about 40 individuals living in rural towns or properties.