If you own a valuable or significant cultural work such as a painting, or a manuscript or a collection of photographs, and would like to donate them, we’d love to hear from you. Artworks, manuscripts, and collections of photographs all help to tell the history of Australia.

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The Library maintains a small but significant collection of Lao language materials.

The Library maintains a small but significant collection of Khmer language materials; it consists of publications mainly from Cambodia, plus some from the Cambodian-Australian community in Australia.

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

Our dance collection contains portraits, manuscripts, oral history interviews, photographs, music scores, personal papers, theatre programs and memorabilia.

Copyright is a legal right that gives copyright owners the right to control certain activities with their works.

Copyright law applies to Indigenous works in the same way as it applies to other works, however there may be additional legal and cultural issues.

The Chinese collection of the National Library is a rich source of information on the history, culture and current affairs of China.

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