About 240 recordings of folk music, folklore, and oral histories documenting family history, local history, work experiences, music and other arts.

Books illustrating the history of printing in Europe and Australia, plus a medieval manuscript, and personal papers of Brian Hone.

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Albums and pieces of sheet music published in Australia and overseas, around 2700 books and pamphlets, mostly related to Western music, manuscript scores, papers from some composers and orchestras, and personal papers of Kenneth Hince.

Learn about the opening of the Library building in 1968 and how collection storage has changed over the years.

Illustrated by Tony Flowers

The Library is proud to house this collection, which preserves the voices of 1,290 Australians.

Dr Penny Olsen, illustrated by Rhonda N. Garward

NLA Fellow Dr Alice Garner recently dove into the oral history collection to explore the remarkable life and legacy of Mavis Robertson AM.

The Fellowships aimed to promote the Library as a centre of scholarly activity and research, and encourage the use and promotion of the Library's rich and varied collections. It supported 150 researchers until 2014 when it was replaced by the Fellowships and Scholarships program.