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New guided pathways from LawAccess NSW

Looking for help with mortgage stress or unpaid council rates? Find information in the new guided pathways from LawAccess NSW.

Four suburban houses

A Book of Hours from Northern France

A beautiful Book of Hours recently digitised and now available online.

A topsy-turvy Christmas

The story of the first truly Australian Christmas cards is a little-known tale of Sydney marketing ingenuity.

Entries for the John Sands 1881 Christmas Card Competition

The Molly Trolley

Do you know what a 'Molly Trolley' is? It originated here, at the State Library of New South Wales.

A Molly Trolley in the Mitchell Library Reading Room.

Q&A with Dr Naomi Malone

The Chair of our Inclusion Advisory Committee has a passion for making the Library more accessible.

A woman wearing a blazer smiles at the camera, standing off-centre.

International Games Day at Randwick City Library : a guest blog post

International Games Day at Margaret Martin Library, Randwick.

Places of Industry - works by Jeff Rigby

The Library has recently acquired a series of 25 works by Blue Mountains-based artist Jeff Rigby.

Delprats Mine

Changes to the Alcohol Interlock Program

Changes have been made to the Alcohol Interlock Program

Car keys sitting on table

Corsali's Southern Cross

Lettera di Andrea Corsali allo Illustrissimo Signore Duco Iuliano de Medici, October 1516

A sketch of a star constellation in an old printed book, propped up on a map.

It's a wrap! 2018 training wrap-up

2018 has been a busy year of training, with nearly 30 training sessions delivered to over 300 public library staff 

Woman wearing goggles

PanDA

Digital asset ingestion at scale

A digital dashboard showing a list of task functions in a Panda job.

Digital photography – asking the right questions

Acquiring born digital photographs

Photograph of person taking photo of flowers using a phone

Workflows: a language we can all understand

Mapping work flows for born digital collection and preservation

Going to court?

Representing yourself in court? Need a lawyer? Want to know how courts work?

Man walking towards Goulburn court house

Richard Race Lewis’ "Sydney Expansion Scheme"

The Sydney Expansion Scheme was a radical 1920s public works proposal that involved carving out canals throughout greater Sydney. 

Richard Race Lewis

The Toganmain Map Collection

Charles Sturt University Bachelor of Information Studies student Jillian Fearnley has recently completed a project working on the Library's Toganmain map collection.