Friends of the National Library of Australia share a passion for the Library and its collections.

The National Library operates from 4 buildings: 3 in Canberra and one in Jakarta, Indonesia. These buildings house our collection of approximately 10 million items.

Professor Helen Ennis discussed her extensive writing on the work of Australian women photographers.

Stephanie Owen Reeder, illustrated by Liz Duthie

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.

Be illuminated at the National Library this March.

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Examples of advertising and media drawn from the National Library of Australia’s exhibition The Sell: Australian Advertising 1790s to 1990s and looks at their influence over time.

We’re pleased to announce that 55 community-led organisations will receive a Community Heritage Grant (CHG) in 2024.

About 15,500 items of sheet music and about 700 music albums from the late eighteenth century to the 1980s, as well as the personal papers of Snell.

In this interactive online learning session, students joined author Dianne Wolfer and illustrator Erica Wagner to learn how to make a book.