Over 1700 books, journals and ephemera items are now available online through collaborative projects such as the South Seas Project, the Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project and the International Children's Digital Library. John Gould's Birds of Australia and Dorothy Wall's Blinky Bill, are two iconic examples.
Or take a look at rare and fragile works from the Library's Asian Collections including an early Korean work on Confucian ethics Samgang haengsil, or Tian fu xia fan zhao shu from the London Missionary Society Collection.
Browse through the Library's Australian or overseas digitised print collections to find other items of interest or view the selection below. To review our progress read Books and Serials digitisation - progress so far and Digitisation - overview.
Front cover from South Australian German Association Program 1886-1936
Some of the beauty spots at Townsville Promotional postcard
Item 1 from Menus - Hotels ephemera material
Trans Australian Airlines TAA Packing advice for women
Our Security is THREATENED Australian federal elections campaign ephemera
Page from Souvenir Australian Tour 1908 & 1909
Bessie Campbell, Banjo Queen scrapbook 1889-1918
'Yes' for Aborigines Poster 1967
Menzies Hotel Sydney handwritten menu 1920
Ergon Energy Outback Muster 1999
Playbill - an artefact associated with the First Fleet 1796
Miss Australia, Miss Beryl Mills 1927
Price list of Penfolds wines
Single leaf from Leviticus, chapters VI & VII, of the Biblia latina
Albrecht Dürer Title page of Passio Christi ab Alberto Durer Nurenbergensi effigiata
Anna Pavlova and her Ballet Russe Australian tours 1926, 1929: theatre programmes
Cover of Coogee Bay Hotel menu: a Merry Christmas
The prison hulk "Success": open daily from 10 am to 10 pm
Ellis Rowan, 1848-1922 Ellis Rowan won the Centennial Art Prize in 1888, defeating
established male artists including Tom Roberts and Frederick McCubbin. Rowan travelled Australia and New Guinea searching for rare and exotic species to paint. This image is from her flower and bird paintings held in the Pictures Collection of the National Library. It recently featured in Betty Churcher's Hidden Treasures series, screened on ABC Television.