Dive into the world of wacky advertising from decades past.

The National Library of Australia is seeking community support to digitise its unique collection of election ephemera.

American cartographic expert Emeritus Professor Dennis Reinhartz discussed the exploration and charting of the Americas and the Pacific undertaken by the Spanish from the 15th to the 18th centuries with map collector, curator and author Emeritus Professor Robert Clancy.

The Library has recently acquired a journal recording the first Russian Antarctic expedition in 1819-21.

The Library is making it easier for Trove Partner organisations to provide inter-library loan and document copying service to their patrons.

The Library actively collects new publications from Timor Leste, including books, journals, newspapers and government publications.

The Library has an ambitious mission: to assemble a complete collection of Australian published work.

Searching for the 18th-century character in the Library's rare books and music collections.

The National Library operates from 4 buildings: 3 in Canberra and one in Jakarta, Indonesia. These buildings house our collection of approximately 10 million items.

For many centuries Europeans believed there must be a vast land in the southern hemisphere, variously called ‘Terra Australis Incognita’ from the Latin for ‘Unknown South Land’.