We invite you to discover our digitised collections. The National Library digitises selected items in its collections to provide users with easy online access to some of Australia’s most significant cultural materials.
Explore the Australian story through captivating pictures, rare historical maps, early Australian printed music, manuscripts belonging to famous Australians, selected printed works from our Australian and overseas collections, and selected audio recordings of our oral history and folklore items.
To find out more about the Library's digitisation strategy and progress so far read Digitisation - overview and the progress reports for Pictures, Maps, Manuscripts, Printed Music, Books & Serials and Audio.
The significant milestone of 150 000 digitised items from the Library's collections was reached in September 2009. The 150 000th digitised item was a map First subdivision of the Mildura Estate on the new suburban railway to Canterbury, from the Ferguson collection of real estate sales plans.
Marking the second anniversary of the official apology to the Stolen Generations, the Library is making available recordings from the Bringing Them Home oral history project. In this interview, Mona Tur tells how she was threatened with removal from her mother, a traditional Antikirinja / Yunkunytjatjara woman. When she was eight years old, Mona was eventually sent to the United Aboriginies Mission at Oodnadatta, South Australia. Unlike many of her contemporaries, she was able to maintain strong links to her family and culture.