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  • Director-General of the National Library Anne-Marie Schwirtlich has welcomed the 50,000th visitor to the Treasures Gallery which opened only four months ago.
    -- posted on: 2 February 2012
  • Due to public demand, Handwritten: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Treasures from Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, will now be open till 9pm on Thursday nights at the National Library of Australia in Canberra.
    -- posted on: 17 January 2012
  • Hear many of your favourite writers tell their stories at the National Library in Canberra - via podcast.
    -- posted on: 6 December 2011

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