Media Releases

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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.

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