Award-winning author Christos Tsiolkas delivers 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.

Our Manuscripts collections are wide ranging and provide rich evidence of the lives and activities of Australians who have shaped our society.

Just as a regular library gathers together books and manuscripts, the Australian Web Archive (AWA) collects online publications.

Our Maps collection includes around 1 million maps, from early European charts to current mapping of Australia, in print and digital form.

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Timeline of events from 1901 to 1967