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Applications for volunteer guides are open now until 11:59pm on Tuesday 29 October 2024. The Library relies on its volunteer guides to run daily tours as well as greet and assist visitors. Benefits of ...

In August 1943, in the midst of the Second World War, the first two women to be elected to the Federal Parliament of Australia were Dame Enid Lyons for the Tasmanian seat of Darwin in the House of ...

Once your papers or organisational records have been accepted by the Curatorial and Collection Research Section, they are ready to be prepared for transfer. To assist the Library we ask that donors ...

Free wireless network access is offered to visitors of the National Library of Australia from designated 'Hotspots' throughout the building and its surrounds.

A family standing outside a tin shack called Wiloma during the Great Depression, New South Wales, ca. 1932, nla.obj-160054430 The Library's collections offer a wealth of resources to the Australian ...

We often don’t realise we’re living through a major historical moment until the time has passed. The pandemic we find ourselves in now is one such historical moment. Dr Chris Wallace and Professor ...

The arrival of an ancestor in Australia is a key moment in a family's history. They may have arrived as a fare-paying passenger, as an 'assisted' migrant, a member of a ship's crew, in military or ...

Locating the last resting places of our family and forebears can be an important aspect of our genealogical research. For many, it will eventually lead to a journey to those places and to the exact ...

Depending on a passenger's wealth or means the manner in which they travelled aboard the ship could have been either saloon or steerage, or first, second or third class. Australian newspaper ...

Use our guides to explore the depths of our rich collections. You will find research advice, key resources, featured collection items, selected websites and research case studies. We also have a ...

School’s in at the National Library’s Digital Classroom. Home to more than 10 million collection items, the National Library of Australia is the largest source of information in the world about ...