Hear from Dr Deirdre O’Connell as she presents a lecture on her 2023 National Library Fellowship research about the extraordinary influence of Augusta 'Pakie' Macdougall who brought suffragist activism, Greenwich Village’s salon culture, and the Little Theatre movement to interwar Sydney.

Hear about Suprawee (Earn) Asanasak 2024 Asia Study Grant research. 

The Library holds a rich and diverse range of documentary materials relating to the Pacific region, including Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia and New Zealand.

We want to connect with peoples of diverse Pacific and South Sea Islander heritage living in Australia. 

The National Library holds a rich and diverse range of library materials on the Pacific region, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.

1,300 pamphlets and tracts published in Britain between 1829 and 1882. They provide a valuable record of the issues that were discussed and debated in Britain in the middle decades of the 19th century.

4,000 books published by Penguin and its related imprints from 1935 to 1964.

Some of the major overseas government statistical agencies, the equivalents of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, provide comprehensive, free information from national to local levels.

Learn about the types of maps we hold and how to access them, including maps for countries, oceans and the planets.

Our overseas newspaper collections include digitised historic and modern newspapers accessible online, as well as newspapers in microform and paper formats.