The Library is unable to provide specialist advice about how to care for personal or family archives, but there are a number of resources which can help.

To find an out of print book you can start by getting in contact with a second hand/antiquarian bookseller.

Useful resources for finding unclaimed money

In this interactive online learning session, students joined author Dianne Wolfer and illustrator Erica Wagner to learn how to make a book.

See how to deposit a publication in person, by mail and electronically.

We request that you inform us if you wish to publish, reproduce, print, use online, broadcast, perform, display, include in a film, project or quote the whole or part of an item from our rare and unique collections. 

The resources available for each house may be different, due to the fact the availability, organisation, and location of records vary from state to state.

Browse photographs from the 1956 Melbourne Olympics to learn the top tips for how to watch a sports game.

The Library acquires Australian material mainly through legal deposit, purchase (direct from publishers or through library suppliers), exchange, gift or donation.

Collection of Australian drama consisting of 197 unpublished plays in typescript or manuscript form by Australian authors.