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Explore the National Library's digitised Books & Serials

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.

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September Curator's Choice

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.