How to find and use items in the Maps Collection.

A guide to requesting, accessing and publishing collection items in the Oral History and Folklore Collection.

How to find and use items in the Pictures collection.

We explored early modern maps with cartographic historian Chet Van Duzer.

Award-winning author Christos Tsiolkas delivered the 2025 Ray Mathew Lecture, exploring the idea of 'Fence-sitting', and its place in the modern world.

The latest buzz at the Library is that 50 new photos of beekeeping in Australia are now available online. 

Literature and history take centre stage at the Library this August.

Our Music collection contains over 300,000 musical scores and the largest collection of music research resources in Australia.

Our rich and varied Pictures collection focuses on Australian people, places and events, from early European exploration of the South Pacific to contemporary events.

We have been selectively collecting Australian printed ephemera since the early 1960s so we can tell the story of Australian life, culture, and major events and issues.