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.

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

In many homes in Australia, you will find a bookcase, a mantelpiece or a shelf with a display of family photographs. These small intimate galleries chronicle the individuals, both young and old, who populate the family tree, sometimes the images reach back two or three generations.

Special guests held a conversation about their own stories around migration, and how our country can best recognise the extraordinary contribution of migrants to contemporary Australia.

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.

Learn about our Enlighten 2024 illuminations and find your home at your National Library.

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