About 200 American books and a smaller number on the French Revolution and Napoleon, plus 15 letters by eighteenth and nineteenth-century scientists and physicians.

The printed collections at the National Library contain substantial collections of older legislation in print, though these may not be complete sets. 

How to find statistics in the Library and elsewhere

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.

This Charter sets out the standard of service you can expect from us.

Thanks to a gift from the Susan and Isaac Wakil Foundation, we are digitising performing arts material from our incredible collection.

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In this lecture, Dr Julian Raxworthy explored the intersection between landscape design and garden maintenance, the subject of his book Overgrown: practices between landscape architecture and gardening.

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

The National Library holds mapping not only for Australia, but for every country and ocean in the world and also for all the planets.