Be inspired by the artists and writers who have been awarded National Folk Fellowships.

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The word narrative means story. As we write or tell stories, we are creating a narrative by describing a series of events that are connected.

About 5000 books, pamphlets and periodicals, over 11,000 paintings, drawings and prints, around 800 maps and over 300 manuscripts mostly published 1770-1900. Largely relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific including Antarctica.

Author and poet Nam Le discussed his book '36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem' with local Canberra author and Artistic Director of the Canberra Writers Festival, Beejay Silcox.

Join us for dinner at Bookplate with renowned photojournalist, and guest curator of our Fit to Print exhibition, Mike Bowers.

Julie Murphy, illustrated by Garry Fleming

The Library has the largest collection of sheet music in the country, with over 300,000 items. The bulk of the collection relates to Australian composers, performers and music publishing houses.

Learn about the Prepublication Data Service application process for publications of notated music.

The Library has a diverse collection of materials documenting the history of Australian musical performance.

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