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Sustainable funding for the National Library of Australia

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For students to explore the depiction, representation and meaning of Australian symbols through beloved stories like Blinky Bill and Possum Magic.

Discover the Symphony Australia Collection, featuring unpublished music by Australian composers from 1910 to 1970, including Alfred Hill, Peter Sculthorpe, and Margaret Sutherland. With chamber, choral, orchestral, and vocal pieces, as well as works from the colonial era and Eugene Goossens, this collection, donated in 2001, is a key resource in Australian music history.

This large collection of music covering seven decades of Australian musical history, consists of scores and performance parts.

Three giant letters were installed in the front of the Library entrance.

The Library is developing a new Disability Inclusion Action Plan and we'd like your feedback.

The National Library has endorsed the National and State Libraries Australia (NSLA) position statement on requests to take down access to content from our collections.

The National Library of Australia's digitisation of historical newspapers, and To Be Continued: The Australian Newspaper Fiction Database, have opened the pages of Australia’s literary past in new and surprising ways.

About 3000 books and pamphlets, mostly published in Britain, the majority on astronomy but also some works on geology, physics and chemistry, as well as a small group of Tanock's personal papers.