This policy outlines the key principles that underpin sustainable description activities and practices for material in the National Library of Australia’s collections.

The Library’s Collection Development Policy defines the scope and nature of its collecting of Australian and overseas materials.

This policy aims to provide a statement of the Library’s current approach to digitisation. It covers all digitisation activities undertaken by Library staff as well as external providers under contract to the Library.

Ian 'Spike' Farrawell recently donated a set of his Australia Post mailbag card designs to the Library.

The Library's policies and plans about the collections.

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Learn about the environmental legacies of Cook's voyages including the impact on Australia's natural resources, Aboriginal land-management practices and connections to contemporary environmental activism.

Fifty years on, see how the destruction and impact of Cyclone Tracy in Darwin 1974 is captured in our collection. 

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The idea of Federation of the states had been discussed in Australia from about 1850, with the movement gaining real momentum in 1889 after a speech by veteran New South Wales politician Sir Henry Parkes.

The Federal Register of Legislation (the Legislation Register) is the authorised whole-of-government website for Commonwealth legislation and related documents.

Learn about May Gibbs' Nutcote, recipient of a 2024 Community Heritage Grant.