Module

This resource is aligned to the Australian Curriculum: Design and Technologies standards for Year 5 and 6. It draws on the Library’s Wolfgang Sievers Collection to explore how photography, design and industry have transformed modern Australia, encouraging students to investigate how technologies are developed, used, and understood in social and environmental contexts.

Topic

Sievers’ work is a pictorial timeline showing Australia’s social, technological and industrial transformation.

Dr Sylvia Martin

Dr Marie-Louise Ayres FAHA, Director-General of the National Library of Australia, delivered her reflections on more than 30 years in the library sector.

The Dryer Collection includes 2286 titles, mainly monographs but also including manuscripts and music material about the history of Ireland and Australia.

About 6200 books about European literature, history and culture, mostly published in the period 1880-1960. 

About 4000 books, mostly published in France in the 19th and early 20th century, as well as a number of German, Italian, Latin and Greek books.

Topic

After World War II, the people of the Netherlands found themselves with a long journey ahead of them, resurrecting a war-ravaged country that was struggling to overcome recent famine and mass casualties in the Holocaust.

168 original paintings and drawings by Augustus Earle.

Topic 

Delve into the journeys of early European explorers, focusing on Abel Tasman’s significant contributions to Australian history.