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

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

Discover the Symphony Australia Collection, featuring unpublished music by Australian composers from 1910 to 1970, including Alfred Hill, Peter Sculthorpe, and Margaret Sutherland.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.

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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.

Sustainable funding for the National Library of Australia

Help researchers, young scholars and artists immerse themselves in our unique collections to create new knowledge and transformative works.

List of Summer Scholars from 2002 to 2015

Thinking of visiting the Library around Christmas or New Year's Day? Plan your visit with our summer opening hours, from Monday 23 December 2024 to Wednesday 1 January 2025.

See what's happening at the Library this summer, including exhibitions, tours and more.