National Library of Australia

Reflecting on the Australian response to AIDS Oral History Project.

About 240 recordings of folk music, folklore, and oral histories documenting family history, local history, work experiences, music and other arts.

A gift from the Ralf Iannuzzi Memorial Trust is helping us to digitise some of our rarest items. 

Books illustrating the history of printing in Europe and Australia, plus a medieval manuscript, and personal papers of Brian Hone.

Learn about our Enlighten 2024 illuminations and find your home at your National Library.

Books, pamphlets, broadsides, posters, periodicals, newspapers and some manuscripts mostly relating to Federation and political and constitutional history.

We’ve compiled a list of study tips with a sporting twist to help you kick some goals in the educational arena.

The origins of the National Library of Australia go back to the early years after Australian Federation in 1901, when the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library served both Federal Parliament and the nation.

Our collection originated with the formation of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library in 1901.