Read about Creative Arts Fellow Celia Craig's experience of exploring the papers of musician Miriam Hyde.

On Tuesday 24 October 2023, the Director-General of The National Library of Australia, Dr Marie-Louise Ayres, delivered an update for researchers.

4000 books, 6000 pamphlets and sets of 40 periodicals published between about 1620 and 1940, including the works of the major English, Scottish and Irish political economists and writers. 

Helping to preserve our cultural heritage

September is a month for reflection and learning at the Library.

Music scores and music related material created or collected by the composer, conductor and musicologist Richard Divall.

Collections of papers from several significant Australian authors collected by Harry Chaplin.

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Housed in a blue-bound folder, in a collection at the National Library of Australia, is a fragment of blue fabric that represents the pursuit of Australian democracy. The folder contains a portion of the Eureka Flag flown at Ballarat, Victoria, during the 1854 Eureka Rebellion. The folder also houses an accompanying explanatory letter dated 13/1/1912 from Fred (F.J.) Riley to his father, Fred Riley.

1,300 pamphlets and tracts published in Britain between 1829 and 1882. They provide a valuable record of the issues that were discussed and debated in Britain in the middle decades of the 19th century.

About 10,000 stereoscopic view cards produced by both commercial and amateur photographers in all parts of the world and a significant collection of photographic equipment and some books and journals on photography.