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

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The convict uniform held at the National Library of Australia is the only complete, original convict uniform in Australia. It consists of a jacket, a pair of trousers marked with a broad arrow, a waistcoat, a leather cap and a woollen cap.

4,000 books published by Penguin and its related imprints from 1935 to 1964.

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Media, information and digital literacy, by their most basic definitions, relate to a person’s skills and ability to locate, create, use and engage critically with information in a range of formats.

Current building works are temporarily impacting access to parts of our collection.

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Enter the musical world of seventeenth and early nineteenth century Britain with rare prints, books and manuscripts.

The Australian and overseas printed collections at the National Library contain substantial material which can support research into the First World War.

Find out more about the constitutional context, the activism that led to change and key resources documenting the fight for recognition and justice for First Nations people.

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