Blogs

Explore a whimsical vision of Sydney with this newly acquired rare map.

While busily preparing for the Library’s new exhibition Coming Out in the 70s conservators were confronted with a rather unusual dilemma.

The Library has launched the AJCP Research Guide to help researchers access perhaps the most significant collection of primary source material documenting the history of colonial Australia.

Students talk about this year’s extra challenging HSC year, and how the Library was there to help.

The Library is celebrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history and culture with a series of events, exhibitions and activities for NAIDOC Week 2020.

Do you enjoy reading news articles from around the world for research or personal interest? Library card holders have the opportunity to trial Access World News 2021.

Learn more about how feedback we've received from our readers is helping us to build a better library catalogue.

A lost Sydney theatre and a forgotten American film director come together in a piece of Library ephemera.

As the weather turns a little warmer we’re reminded that one of our favourite activities is still diving into a good book. Here's eight staff picks.

The first printed European southern star chart joins the Library’s cartography collection.

American author and fisherman Zane Grey was a celebrity visitor to the NSW south coast in the 1930s.

Fifty years ago, on Saturday 19 September 1970, people around the country opened their newspapers to see something they hadn’t seen in print before.

Historical newspapers are a world of wonderful surprises — anywhere you land within them.

Photojournalists brave war and crisis to tell their stories in the annual World Press Photo exhibition. 

Sydney socialite Marcia AM Clark had an ardent passion for photography and a love of fast sports cars.

A look at using features from our new catalogue preview to rediscover fascinating items from the Library's collections.