Over 10,000 volumes and 1500 pamphlets in English, Latin, French, Italian, German and Spanish, with particular strength in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

*Places limited* In this workshop, Writing the Book Only You Can Write, participants will be introduced to a unique and accessible approach to writing their personal story. 

The Friends of the Library delved into the craft of writing a biography with Troy Bramston.

Helen Garner was in conversation with Beejay Silcox about her new book The Season.

Illustrated by Tony Flowers

In this lecture, Dr Julian Raxworthy explored the intersection between landscape design and garden maintenance, the subject of his book Overgrown: practices between landscape architecture and gardening.

The Burmese collections at the National Library of Australia consist of thousands of books, journals and microfilm holdings in Burmese language and Burma/Myanmar-related materials.

Dr Christina Thompson presented a lecture on her 2023 Creative Arts Fellowship research into what happened when writing arrived on the islands of the Pacific.

Topic

Information is all around us, every day. Regardless of whether we are looking for the information or having it presented to us unexpectedly, it is easy to become overwhelmed by the amount of data we are exposed to.

Module

Explore how communities evolve over time, how different cultures influence and contribute to communities, and how symbols convey meaning.