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What’s got us talking

Keeping readers safe when visiting the Library

Here's what we're doing for the health and safety of our staff, readers and visitors.

Millions turn to libraries to get them through

Over 20,000 new members have signed up online since the lockdown. 

The Diary Files

Tell us what you see, what you feel. What you had for breakfast, and what keeps you up at night.

The Diary Files

Smart research for HSC students

Optimise your valuable study time. These online sessions, designed by specialist librarians, will help you find the right tools, manage your citations, recognise the best quality information sources and save you time. 

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Collection buzz

Researching the Pacific: The Pacific Manuscripts Bureau

We asked Kari James, Executive Officer of the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, to answer some of your questions about the history, significance and future plans of this collection.

collage of images from The Pacific Manuscripts Bureau

Cook commemoration sparks 1970 protest

On 29 April 1970 protestors marched through Sydney's CBD before making their way to La Perouse. 

Tribune negatives including meeting of FCAATSI leaders at Sydney Town Hall and protestors at Day of Mourning memorial gathering and procession in Sydney, 28 April 1970-29 April 1970

The making of Slater’s Field Guide to Australian Birds

The Library has recently acquired the extraordinary archive of  Peter Slater, one of Australia’s best-known ornithologists.

It's only rock’n’roll… but I like it

The Library has added 61 new photographs of New South Wales–based musicians by Wendy McDougall to our catalogue.

Across the curator’s desk: Piranesi’s etchings, c 1761

Piranesi was an Italian printmaker known for his detailed technical drawings, architectural studies of Rome and imaginary buildings.

Piranesi, The Drawbridge c1761

Featured events

Curator Talk: The old Devonshire Street Cemetery

Curator Talks
Friday
Friday 5 June 2020 - 1pm to 1:30pm
Free
Talk

Curator Elise Edmonds will explore the history of the old Devonshire Street cemetery, which used to sprawl across the sandhills at the south end of the city, where Central Station now stands.

 

Black and white photograph of gravestones in a cemetery.
Online

Where do I start? Introduction to PressReader

Lifelong learning
Wednesday
Wednesday 10 June 2020 - 10:30am to 11am
Free
Seminar

Join us for an introduction to PressReader, a digital newsstand offering over 7000 publications in more than 60 languages.

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Grattan Institute: How our health system can be better after the pandemic

Wednesday
Wednesday 10 June 2020 - 12pm to 1pm
Free
Talk

Australia’s health system in the late stages of the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic looks nothing like the health system of six months ago. All aspects of the system – primary care, mental health, and alcohol and other drug services – have embraced new ways of working because of spatial distancing.

Online

The B List with Bri Lee & Liz Allen

The B List bookclub
Thursday
Thursday 11 June 2020 - 7pm to 8pm
Free
Talk

Join us online for The B List book club hosted by Bri Lee

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