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The Library holds the greatest collection in the world of material relating to Australia and the Australian people. It ranges from the earliest European works about the Great Southern Land to the most current publications.

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  • Recent acquisition highlights

    Updated periodically, these listings give brief descriptions of some of the more significant items recently added to the National Library's collections. Included are new items...

  • Archived websites

  • Asian

  • Dance

  • Printed ephemera

  • Indigenous

  • Manuscripts

  • Maps

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  • Newspapers

  • Oral history and folklore

  • Pacific

  • Pictures

About our collection

  • What we collect

    We are responsible under the terms of the National Library Act for maintaining and developing a national collection of library...

  • Preserving our collections

  • Building our collections

  • Guide to selected collections

  • Collection statistics

  • History of the collection

  • Processing and describing our collections

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The National Library of Australia (NLA) acknowledges Australia’s First Nations Peoples – the First Australians – as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of this land and gives respect to the Elders – past and present – and through them to all Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

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