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

About 4000 books, mostly published in France in the 19th and early 20th century, as well as a number of German, Italian, Latin and Greek books.

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

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.