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Explore the Shakespeare Room

Read the winter issue of Openbook

Openbook winter cover

Discover the works of Charles Rodius

People in the Rodius exhibition

Visit the Library Bar

The Library Bar

Collection buzz

When Sydney came to town

Architect Nino Sydney gave his adopted city high-end design at an affordable price.

Design for the ‘Beachcomber’ project home, Nino Sydney for Lend Lease Homes, c 1961

Take 5 stargazers

Shining a light on five celestial favourites from the collection.

Cross staff engraving by Joseph Moxon, 1686

Stars in the stacks

A rare books specialist finds that the Library holds surprises beyond the natural history books and Australiana for which its collection is renowned.

Ethel Turner gets personal

A new acquisition reveals the personal and professional lives of one of Australia’s best-known authors.

a collection of items from the Ethel Turner collection including a notepad and a photograph

The Flying Pieman of Sydney, en pointe

Anna Corkhill writes about rediscovering costume drawings for a ballet that never was.

Featured events

Determined to prove a villain: Richard III

Thursday
Thu 13 Jul 2023
Special event

Presented with Bell Shakespeare in connection to the exhibition For All Time, a star-studded panel discuss the influence and interpretations of Shakespeare’s Richard III.

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