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  • Rare original plans, silk lithographs and scrawled notes from the hands of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin will come to life in a new exhibition at the National Library from Friday 8 March.
    -- posted on: 22 February 2013
  • To mark the third anniversary of the National Apology to the Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants, the National Library has published a commemorative booklet, You Can't Forget Things Like That, which features many of their remarkable stories.
    -- posted on: 16 November 2012
  • Professor Julian Disney AO will give the 2013 Kenneth Myer lecture at the National Library of Australia on Thursday 15 August.
    -- posted on: 11 July 2013
  • Writer Murray Bail will deliver the Kenneth Binns lecture at the 2013 Writing the Australian Landscape Conference from August 3-4.
    -- posted on: 21 June 2013

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2013

  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2013 - 10:52

    Just because you live out of town doesn't mean you have to miss out on access to Australia's largest reference collection - at the National Library of Australia in Canberra.

  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2013 - 12:31

    City of Trees, the National Library of Australia’s Centenary of Canberra exhibition, tells the real story of the nation’s capital – from its very roots.

  • 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.

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Photograph of a man standing looking at the National Arboretum in canberraCity of Trees

City of Trees is a multidisciplinary project created by British artist Jyll Bradley to mark the national capital’s 100th birthday. At the heart of this exhibition is an investigation of identity and place through photography, drawing and sound. City of Trees is a Centenary of Canberra project proudly supported by the ACT Government, the Australian Government and the National Library of Australia.

Black and white portrait of Reverend John FlynnBeyond the furthest fences: The Australian Inland Mission Collection

In 1912 the Reverend John Flynn and the Presbyterian Church established the Australian Inland Mission (AIM), a ‘mantle of safety’ for the isolated outback. Sustained by the work of nurses, volunteers and ministers, the AIM cared for an area of over three million square kilometres. Flynn’s aim to ease the isolation of inland Australians led to the development of the Royal Flying Doctor Service and the pedal-powered radio.

Watercolour drawing of a parrotTreasures Gallery

The National Library of Australia’s greatest treasures are now on permanent display in the new state-of-the-art Treasures Gallery. The Treasures Gallery features some of the Library’s most prized items collected over the past 100 years, including Lieutenant James Cook’s journal of the Endeavour and the first document printed in Australia, a 1796 playbill.

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Cover of The book Australian Hishtory Live featuring images from australian historyAustralian History Live! Eyewitness Accounts from the Past

Read all about it: see how Australia’s history was reported as it happened in this new National Library of Australia publication, Australian History Live! Eyewitness Accounts from the Past.

Blue cover of children’s book Rocket into SpaceCollecting Ladies: Ferdinand von Mueller and Women Botanical Artists

In her new National Library of Australia publication, Collecting Ladies: Ferdinand von Mueller and Women Botanical Artists, acclaimed natural history writer Penny Olsen pieces together a remarkable story of a bachelor botanist and his search for female collectors to help him realise his passion - to find and catalogue Australian plants and put them on the world map.

Cover of Cayley and Son with a drawing of  KookaburraCayley & Son: The Life and Art of Neville Henry Cayley & Neville William Cayley

The history of acclaimed Australian bird artists, Neville Henry Cayley and his son Neville William Cayley, is also a social history of Australia—both men’s work can be read as a barometer of changing attitudes to wildlife and its conservation.

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