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About the Harold White Fellowships

The Harold White Fellowships aim to:

  • Promote the National Library of Australia as a centre of scholarly activity and research
  • Encourage scholarly and literary use of the Library’s collections and the production of publications based on them
  • Publicise the Library ’s collections

Established by the Council of the National Library of Australia in 1983 as the National Library Fellowships, the first Fellows commenced their research at the Library in 1984. The fellowships were renamed in honour of Sir Harold White CBE (1905-1992), the first National Librarian, in 1985.

Fellowships are open to established Australian and international researchers and writers in any discipline in which the Library has strong collections. The fellowships offer the means and the time to work with the Library’s significant collection of books, journals, newspapers, maps, music, manuscripts, pictures and oral histories.