A vast repository of over 4,000 books, primarily in Chinese, covering history, culture, politics, and religion. Collected between 1950 and 2000, it includes rare texts from Taiwan and China, reflecting the richness of Chinese scholarship. 

Explore the decades-long, remarkable efforts of the Papunya community to record language and culture and keep it alive. 

Vivien Johnson, Charlotte Phillipus and Samantha Disbray

The Library is proud to welcome our newest Council member Distinguished Professor Larissa Behrendt AO.
 

To celebrate his latest book What a Ripper! 60 everyday objects that shaped Australia, Tim Ross was joined on stage by one of the designers featured in the book, Mary Featherston.

Get some winter book recommendations to suit all reading moods.

Martie Lowenstein presented a lecture on her 2023 National Folk Fellowship research about Wendy Lowenstein's significant contribution to the development of the folk movement in Australia and her year-long oral history collecting trip in 1969.

Find out about our collecting priorities and areas of focus as we build a rich and diverse collection of all things Australian.

Find treasure at the National Library this April!

There’s something for everyone at the National Library this April.