Explore our media releases from 2013, captured by the Australian Web Archive.

Explore our media releases from 2012, captured by the Australian Web Archive.

The National Library houses the largest and most actively developing research resource on Asia in Australia, with holdings of over half a million volumes.

27 recordings of traditional music, recitations, folklore and oral histories made in New South Wales between 1968 and 1995.

Personal papers, manuscript scores, literary manuscripts, sound recordings and family photographs of Peter Sculthorpe, plus videos of films for which he wrote the music and television interviews.

Around 500 titles by minor and obscure British poets of the nineteenth century, most having been published during the reign of Queen Victoria, but there are some earlier imprints extending back to 1801.

Around 270 books, pamphlets and serials, mostly published in the Philippines 1900-1965 but also some items from the USA, Spain and Spanish-speaking countries.

Around 6,000 books, mostly in Portuguese, mostly relating to literature, history and religion among many other topics.

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.

About 3000 books and pamphlets, mostly published in Britain, the majority on astronomy but also some works on geology, physics and chemistry, as well as a small group of Tanock's personal papers.