Media Releases

2013

  • Friday, 21 June, 2013 - 11:03

    The National Library of Australia today (Friday 21 June) celebrates the digitisation of the 10 millionth newspaper page – the Saturday July 31, 1915, issue of the Orange Leader.

  • Monday, 25 March, 2013 - 14:28

    When it comes to the history of Australian sheet music, no-one knows the score like the National Library of Australia.

  • Thursday, 7 March, 2013 - 14:43

     

    Expert National Library of Australia staff and a contracted textile conservator have saved a rare lithograph on silk, created by Marion Mahony Griffin - one of Canberra's original designers - from likely ruin.

  • Friday, 1 March, 2013 - 08:28

    The National Library of Australia is calling for applications for the 2013 Community Heritage Grants.

2012

  • Wednesday, 12 December, 2012 - 08:56

    A cheque for 100 pounds signed by Charles Dickens and sent as a gift to his sons in Australia, but never cashed, goes on display this week in the National Library’s remarkable Treasures Gallery.

  • Thursday, 8 November, 2012 - 17:52

    To mark the first anniversary of the National Library of Australia’s award-winning Treasures Gallery, an endowed curatorship has been established – thanks to the generosity of philanthropists Helen James and Jim Bettison.

  • Wednesday, 31 October, 2012 - 08:22

    A total of $428,675 has been awarded to 78 community groups throughout Australia in the 2012 Community Heritage Grants program.

  • Thursday, 9 August, 2012 - 14:44

    The real story of outback Australia, through the lens of one of its most dedicated heroes, is now on show at the National Library of Australia.

  • Friday, 27 July, 2012 - 09:19

    An exhibition of extraordinary natural history paintings and drawings by Australia's first professional artist, John William Lewin, opens at the National Library of Australia on Saturday 28 July 2012.

  • Tuesday, 10 July, 2012 - 09:05

     

    DATE: Tuesday 10 July

    TIME: 1.45 pm

    PLACE: Foyer, National Library of Australia, Canberra

    EVENT: Director-General of the National Library of Australia, Ms Anne-Marie Schwirtlich welcomes the new National Library Council Chairman, Mr Ryan Stokes.

  • Monday, 18 June, 2012 - 12:52

    Newspapers that tell Australia’s multicultural stories in their own language are now available online through the National Library of Australia’s award-winning Trove discovery service.

  • Thursday, 12 April, 2012 - 16:31

    'I can't let you have my 'papers' because I don't keep any,' Patrick White told the National Library of Australia in 1977, ' ... and anything unfinished when I die is to be burnt.'

  • Wednesday, 21 March, 2012 - 09:02

    In a first for an Australian collecting institution, two pairs of rare floor globes have been acquired by the National Library of Australia.

  • Thursday, 8 March, 2012 - 10:00
  • Thursday, 1 March, 2012 - 13:05

    The National Library is calling for applications for the 2012 Community Heritage Grants.

  • Thursday, 2 February, 2012 - 14:20

    The 50,000th visitor to the National Library of Australia’s new Treasures Gallery will be welcomed today, (Thursday 2 February 2012), by the Director-General, Ms Anne-Marie Schwirtlich.

2011

  • Monday, 5 December, 2011 - 12:04

     A tapestry created to honour the life and work of visionary, businessman and philanthropist Kenneth Myer AC has been unveiled at the National Library of Australia in Canberra.

  • Thursday, 24 November, 2011 - 12:42

    Rare documents from history’s greats will go on show in Handwritten: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Treasures from Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin  -  a blockbuster exhibition to open the National Library of Australia’s new Exhibition Gallery on 26 November.

  • Thursday, 24 November, 2011 - 12:39

    What: 100 rare original documents spanning 1000 years by Mozart, Michelangelo, Darwin, Beethoven, Dickens, Bach, Erasmus, Napoleon, Einstein and more in Handwritten: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Treasures from Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.

  • Wednesday, 9 November, 2011 - 12:20

    Community groups across the country will have a greater capacity to preserve Australia’s heritage as a result of the 2011 Community Heritage Grants.

  • Friday, 4 November, 2011 - 11:26

    The National Library of Australia today welcomed more than 100,000 digital records from the Powerhouse Museum into its award-winning, free online discovery service Trove.

  • Friday, 7 October, 2011 - 17:14

    Many of the National Library of Australia’s greatest treasures, from James Cook’s Endeavour Journal to a letter written by Jane Austen, are now on permanent display with the opening of the new Treasures Gallery in Canberra.

  • Monday, 29 August, 2011 - 13:42

     It is not the role of the National Library of Australia, nor indeed libraries in general, to censor or endorse the contents of their collections,’ the Director-General Ms Anne-Marie Schwirtlich said today.

  • Thursday, 25 August, 2011 - 08:42

    A rare 1649 edition of the story of the doomed voyage of the Batavia, complete with an eyewitness account from commanding officer Francois Pelsaert, has been acquired by the National Library of Australia.

  • Friday, 5 August, 2011 - 10:25

    Have you lost your recipe for rabbit casserole, believe honeymoons are too long or just need to know what to do with butter extender – the National Library of Australia has the answer to these questions - and so much more.

  • Monday, 6 June, 2011 - 16:55

    The National Library of Australia’s free discovery service Trove took top honours at the 2011 Australian Government’s ICT Awards announced in Sydney last night.

  • Thursday, 26 May, 2011 - 15:45

    The National Library of Australia has one of the largest collections of Dame Nellie Melba memorabilia in the world and to mark what would have been the 150th birthday of our favourite soprano and queen of farewell tours, we will have some of these treasures out on show for the media.

  • Monday, 4 April, 2011 - 11:03

    The earliest surviving document printed in Australia and one of the National Library’s treasures, a 1796 theatre playbill, has been added to the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register.

  • Tuesday, 1 March, 2011 - 12:30

    The grants of up to $15 000 are available to community groups around the country to help preserve and manage locally held, nationally significant cultural heritage collections of documents and objects for future generations.

  • Friday, 18 February, 2011 - 12:32

    The National Library of Australia’s Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project has been honoured internationally with project manager Joanna Sassoon invited to speak at a conference in Canada.

2010

  • Friday, 3 December, 2010 - 12:46

    It’s all in a new display, Read All About It: Australian Newspapers 1803-1954, now on show at the National Library of Australia. The display celebrates the National Library’s Australian Newspapers Digitisation Project. In 2007, the National Library began to digitise out-of-copyright newspapers, in collaboration with state and territory libraries

  • Monday, 22 November, 2010 - 12:47

    Early editions of the nation’s favourite magazine, The Australian Women’s Weekly, are now available online - as the National Library of Australia’s Christmas gift to the nation.

  • Wednesday, 17 November, 2010 - 12:49

    Musician and researcher of Australian music, Toby Martin, has been named the 2011 National Folk Fellow.

  • Tuesday, 16 November, 2010 - 12:52

    To mark the first anniversary of the Prime Minister’s apology to the Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants on 16 November 2009, the first collection of many of their stories, recorded by the National Library of Australia, have been made public.

  • Wednesday, 10 November, 2010 - 16:00

    Fifteen Victorian groups will receive grants to help preserve the state’s heritage following the announcement of the 2010 Community Heritage Grants.

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