The National Library's collections range in date from the eleventh century to the present, take in every country in the world and are exceptionally broad in format and subject.

The Library congratulates long-time contributor to the Library’s oral history projects Barry York for completing his 500th interview.

Explore some of the recent additions to the collection representing the contribution of Australians with Chinese heritage.

Each year, hundreds of thousands of pages of content are added to our digital collections and made available online through Trove.

About 200 books and 260 pamphlets, plus personal papers and photographs mainly related to Australian history, politics, law, literature and religion from Sir Ernest Littleton Groom.

Every weekend sporting contests around the country generate stories that we tell and retell.

Great sporting moments make great stories.

Sport is a storytelling machine. And for Australians that machine is prolific. The Australian popular imagination is crowded with stories drawn from sporting contests.

Papers, maps, plans, photographs, paintings and other material related to early Canberra and the work of architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin.

Dr Tets Kimura presented a lecture on his 2023 National Library Fellowship research into how grief was experienced during the Asia-Pacific War in two different nations, Australia and Japan, and how it is identifiable in art and fashion.