Media Releases
2010
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Wednesday, 10 November, 2010 - 15:58
Three Tasmanian groups will receive grants to help preserve the state’s heritage following the announcement of the 2010 Community Heritage Grants.
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Wednesday, 10 November, 2010 - 15:57
Six South Australian groups will receive grants to help preserve the state’s heritage following the announcement of the 2010 Community Heritage Grants.
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Wednesday, 10 November, 2010 - 15:55
Twelve Queensland groups will receive grants to help preserve the state’s heritage following the announcement of the 2010 Community Heritage Grants.
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Wednesday, 10 November, 2010 - 15:53
Three Northern Territory groups will receive grants to help preserve the territory’s heritage following the announcement of the 2010 Community Heritage Grants.
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Wednesday, 10 November, 2010 - 15:51
Twenty NSW groups will receive grants to help preserve the state’s heritage following the announcement of the 2010 Community Heritage Grants.
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Wednesday, 10 November, 2010 - 15:48
Three ACT groups will receive grants to help preserve Australia’s heritage following the announcement of the 2010 Community Heritage Grants.
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Wednesday, 10 November, 2010 - 15:40
Eight Western Australian groups will receive grants to help preserve the state’s heritage following the announcement of the 2010 Community Heritage Grants.
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Wednesday, 10 November, 2010 - 13:09
Community groups across the country will have a greater capacity to preserve Australia’s heritage as a result of the 2010 Community Heritage Grants.
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Friday, 22 October, 2010 - 18:24
A rare eyewitness account of an 1840s attack on a group of Indigenous men, women and children by white squatters on Queensland’s Darling Downs has been acquired by the National Library of Australia.
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Friday, 17 September, 2010 - 17:22
The National Library of Australia has given new voice to one of this country’s iconic groups of sportsmen and women – Australia’s Paralympians.
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Friday, 20 August, 2010 - 17:20
Australian Backyard Explorer, written byPeter Macinnisand published by the National Library of Australia, has won the 2010 Australian Children’s Book Council’s Information Book of the Year.
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Friday, 30 July, 2010 - 17:18
The National Library wants to collect 2010 election ephemera – from stickers to how-to-vote cards, from posters to banners – to add to the existing collection of federal election material which the Library has been collecting since 1983.
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Wednesday, 7 July, 2010 - 17:14
A seminal atlas by the first British Astronomer Royal, John Flamsteed, of particular significance for Australia and the Pacific, has been acquired by the National Library of Australia.
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Friday, 4 June, 2010 - 17:13
Director-General of the National Library of Australia, Ms Jan Fullerton, announced her retirement today after 11 years in the job – and a total of 43 years at this leading collecting institution.
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Friday, 21 May, 2010 - 17:11
A 7600-volume -strong collection of Australian children’s books and ephemera, one of the largest of its kind in existence, has been acquired by the National Library of Australia.
The acquisition represents a lifetime of work by the well-known Australian bibliographer and champion of children’s literature, Marcie Muir, who died in 2007.
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Tuesday, 27 April, 2010 - 17:10
Finding information just got easier – thanks to Trove, a revolutionary new free search engine created by the National Library of Australia.
With just one click at trove.nla.gov.au users, like never before, can access a wealth of resources - across more than 90 million items in one go - about Australia and Australians.
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Thursday, 15 April, 2010 - 11:36
Canberra-based builder Manteena Pty Ltd has won the major contract to redevelop the ground floor of the National Library of Australia building, including the construction of two new state-of-the-art exhibition galleries.
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Wednesday, 10 March, 2010 - 18:05
The National Library of Australia is calling for applications for the 2010 Community Heritage Grants.
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Thursday, 25 February, 2010 - 18:04
The National Library needs Australia’s help to ensure that future generations have access to early copies of one of our best loved magazines – The Australian Women’s Weekly.
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Friday, 12 February, 2010 - 18:02
On the eve of the second anniversary of the apology to members of the Stolen Generations by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, the National Library of Australia will launch a special website featuring oral history interviews with people who were involved in or affected by the removal of Indigenous children from their families.
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Friday, 12 February, 2010 - 18:00
A special collection-in-focus exhibition has opened at the National Library of Australia to mark the 70th anniversary year of the arrival of a group of wartime internees who were to become known as the Dunera Boys.
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Wednesday, 27 January, 2010 - 17:58
Six people who have helped correct millions of lines of text online in the National Library of Australia’s Newspaper Digitisation Program will be presented with special Australia Day awards tomorrow, Thursday 28 January, 2010.
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Friday, 15 January, 2010 - 17:56
One of the earliest maps of parts of the Australian coast, as seen by the first European explorers, has been acquired by the National Library of Australia.
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Tuesday, 12 January, 2010 - 17:53
Two diaries by Australian artist Donald Friend, believed missing for more than 60 years, have been found in the United States and donated to the National Library of Australia.
2009
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Tuesday, 17 November, 2009 - 13:27
The story of how five brothers started a business from their Queensland family home that became one of this nation’s greatest success stories is the subject of a new exhibition at the National Library of Australia – Thiess 75 Years: Shaping a Nation.
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Tuesday, 10 November, 2009 - 13:24
Community groups across the country will have a greater capacity to preserve Australia’s heritage following the announcement of the 2009 Community Heritage Grants.
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Tuesday, 10 November, 2009 - 13:22
Two Northern Territory groups will receive grants to help preserve the territory’s heritage following the announcement of the 2009 Community Heritage Grants.
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Tuesday, 10 November, 2009 - 13:20
Twenty NSW groups will receive grants to help preserve the state’s heritage following the announcement of the 2009 Community Heritage Grants.
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Tuesday, 10 November, 2009 - 13:19
Eleven Queensland groups will receive grants to help preserve the state’s heritage following the announcement of the 2009 Community Heritage Grants.
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Tuesday, 10 November, 2009 - 13:16
Eight South Australian groups will receive grants to help preserve the state’s heritage following the announcement of the 2009 Community Heritage Grants.
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Tuesday, 10 November, 2009 - 13:15
Seven Tasmanian groups will receive grants to help preserve the state’s heritage following the announcement of the 2009 Community Heritage Grants.
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Tuesday, 10 November, 2009 - 13:12
Twenty-one Victorian groups will receive grants to help preserve the state’s heritage following the announcement of the 2009 Community Heritage Grants.
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Tuesday, 10 November, 2009 - 13:08
Six Western Australian groups will receive grants to help preserve the state’s heritage following the announcement of the 2009 Community Heritage Grants.
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Wednesday, 7 October, 2009 - 13:07
A “small brown image” which has been confirmed as the world’s only known vintage print of the Amundsen expedition’s arrival at the South Pole in 1911, has been uncovered at the National Library of Australia.
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Friday, 14 August, 2009 - 12:05
The life and work of Nick Cave, the iconic Australian musician, songwriter and author, will go on show at the National Library of Australia tomorrow, 15 August 2009.
