Blogs

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.

Andrew, who describes himself as ‘living displaced’, has always loved libraries – even as a child. 

Not long before the Covid-19 shutdown, a 1937 publicity photo of astrologer and radio broadcaster June Marsden came into the Library’s collection.

A look at the research and design process undertaken by Library's DX Lab in building a better way to explore complex collection hierarchies.

Capturing the contested landscape for our exhibition Eight Days in Kamay was eye-opening for a Library photographer.

The Library has recently acquired a highly detailed world map, published in London in 1798.  

A look 'under the hood' at the technical foundation for our new catalogue experience.

Three limited-edition photographic artists’ books — Signs & wonders by Stephen Dupont and Jacques Menasche, Farewell Angelina by Anna D’Addario and Duende by Peter Lyssiotis — were recently added to the Library’s collection.

A small, ephemeral pamphlet is a superb addition to the Library’s rare books collection.

A Foundation donor’s generosity and passion have helped open up the Library’s sport collections to everyone.

A punchbowl made of silver is an unusual piece of tableware to commission for a three-year voyage in search of the elusive Great Southern Land.

The Library has recently acquired a unique oil painting by Australian artist Herbert Badham.